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The '''Carryduff River''' is a minor river in [[County Down]]. It is not navigable.

The river rises in [[Killinure]] townland, in the boggy ground at the northern base of [[Ouley Hill]] ({{convert|186|m|ft|0|x}}), and is fed by numerous drainage ditches as it passes through the farmland to the south of the town of [[Carryduff]]. From here it passes beside [[Knockbracken]] open reservoir and flows north down through a gap in the [[Castlereagh Hills]], renamed '''Purdy's Burn''', and flows into the [[River Lagan|Lagan]] valley, joining the River Lagan at [[Minnowburn]].

The original village of Carryduff grew up at the point where the routes south out of [[Belfast]] to [[Downpatrick]] and [[Newcastle, County Down|Newcastle]], and the east-west routes from [[Hillsborough, County Down|Hillsborough]] to the head of [[Strangford Lough]], all met at the Carryduff River.

Though it takes its name from the village, the Carryduff River is little seen in Carryduff; it has been culverted, covered over and encased in a pipe for some of its stretch through the town.

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[[Category:Rivers of County Down]]