Badger Pot and Pigeon Pot are two

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s found in the

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on the eastern slopes of Cuilcagh Mountain, south of Florencecourt Forest Park,

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. They are sourced from small rivers which, at each pot, sink below ground. Dye tracing has linked these sinks to the underground river of the ''Prod's Pot–Cascades'' cave system. This river in turn rises at Cladagh Glen and feeds into the Cladagh River, before ultimately discharging into Upper Lough Erne. Dye tracing has also proved a further underground link to Shannon Pot in

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, suggesting that the latter may once have had a substantially larger catchment area.

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