Dunseverick
Dunseverick ( Irish : Dún Sobhairce ) is now just a hamlet seven kilometers east of Bushmills in the far north of historic County Antrim near the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland . The place belonged to the dissolved District Moyle and since 2015 belongs to the District Causeway Coast and Glens . The Causeway Cliff Path runs past the peninsula between Dunseverick Harbor in the east and the Giant's Causeway in the west. The place was the end of the historic King's Road ( Slige Midluachra ), which leads from Tara to the port, from which one could get to Scotland on the shortest route .
Dunseverick Castle is on the peninsula, which has been owned by the National Trust since 1962. The place must have been a Promontory Fort before the castle was built . The castle, which was unsuccessfully attacked in 1641, was inhabited until it was destroyed by Cromwell's troops in 1650 and is now only in ruins. A small residential tower survived until it fell into the sea in 1978. The castle has a spring on the north side, about three meters from the edge of the cliff, more than a hundred meters above the sea. It was called Tubber Phadrick or St. Patrick's Well and is one of the holy springs of Ireland .
The O'Cahan clan ( Ó Catháin ) owned Dunseverick between 1000 and 1320 and then again from the mid-15th century. The last Irish owner of the castle was Giolla Dubh Ó Catháin, who anglicized his name to McCain / O'Kane in 1660.
literature
- Nancy Edwards: The Archeology of early medieval Ireland. Batsford, London 1996, ISBN 0-7134-7995-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Gray of Dunseverick participated in the Ulster Uprising of 1641. He was part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms during the reign of Charles I.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ W.