Dunseverick

Hamlet in County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Townland in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Dunseverick (alias Feigh) Irish: Dún Sobhairce (Faithche)^[1]
townland
Irish transcription(s)
• Derivation:	Dún Sobhairce
• Meaning:	Sobhairce's fort
Dunseverick Castle
55°14′10″N 6°27′22″W / 55.236°N 6.456°W / 55.236; -6.456
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	Northern Ireland
County	Antrim
Barony	Cary
Civil parish	Billy
First recorded	Before 1609
Settlements	Dunseverick
Area ^[2]
• Total	256.01 acres (103.60 ha)

Dunseverick (from Irish Dún Sobhairce 'Sobhairce's fort')^[3] is a hamlet near the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The name is also the alias for the townland of Feigh.^[4] It is most notable for Dunseverick Castle.

One of the five great highways, or slighe of ancient Ireland, Slige Midluachra, had its terminal point at Dunseverick,^[5] running from here to Emain Macha and further to royal Tara and the fording point on the Liffey at what is now Dublin.

The hamlet of Dunseverick itself lies in the adjacent townland of Currysheskin.^[4]

References

^ Logainm - Placenames Database of Ireland
^ Northern Ireland Environment Agency. "NIEA Map Viewer". Archived from the original on 24 November 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
^ Placenames Database of Ireland
^ ^a ^b Place Names NI^{[permanent dead link]} - Dunseverick (use Map Search for location)
^ "An Analysis of Pre-Christian Ireland Using Mythology and A GIS". Retrieved 14 June 2015.