Winter Scene, Bann Boulevard, Portadown 5
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Winter Scene, Bann Boulevard, Portadown 5
Image: © P Flannagan Taken: 9 Jan 2010
The bridge where the Newry Canal and the River Cusher join the Upper Bann. This is known as the Point of Whitecoat. The Point of Whitecoat is an unusual name for this most interesting area, at the confluence of the two rivers - the river Bann and the river Cusher - and where in the seventeen thirties the entrance to the canal was added. The Ordnance Survey memoirs of 1837 give an explanation which is well worth consideration and could well be the reason how it came about. The survey states that a man who was in the habit of wearing a white coat drowned himself at the point. In those days suicide would have been considered a great tragedy and would have been a major talking point so the occurrence could well have given the area enough publicity for the name to stick.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.410579
Longitude
-6.428401