Carryduff River

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 (610 feet), 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 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, and the east-west routes from 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.