Dún na bhFiarach/Doonaveeragh

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Dún na bhFiarach

genitive: Dhún na bhFiarach

(Irish)

Doonaveeragh

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dún, dúnaibh

English fort

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Sligeach/Sligo

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Tír Oirill/Tirerrill

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Eachanach/Aghanagh

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54.0521, -8.36351latitude, longitude

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Historical references

	Doonaveeragh Doonaveeragh in Sligo; Dun-Ui-bhFiachrach, fort of (the tribe of) Hy Fiachrach.	Joyce Leathanach: 308, Imleabhar: III P.W. Joyce. The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places. I (1869), II (1875), III (1913). Áit foilsithe: Dublin and London, Bliain foilsithe: 1920
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1669	Duneveragh	ASE Leathanach: 201 Abstracts of Grants of Lands..under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, A.D.1666-1684 (Appendix to Fifteenth Annual Report from the Commissioners of Public Records of Ireland, 45-280; 1825) Bliain: 1666-84
1809	Donavoragh	CGn. Leathanach: 646.271.445775 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1825	Doonaveeraugh	TAB Tithe Composition (Applotment) Book (imleabhair lámhscríofa ó c. 1830 atá ar coimeád sa Chartlann Náisiúnta) Bliain: 1824–40, Nóta: Go minic, tugtar ainm an pharóiste, nó eolas eile i gcolún na nótaí.
1836	Doonaveeragh	BS:AL Leathanach: Sl003,19 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1836	Donivera	Co. Cess Applot.:AL Co. Cess Applot., foinse in AL / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1836	The proprietor Geo. Dodwell Esqr … There is a remarkable hill on the [N] side of the townland called Doonaveeragh on which there is a trigonometrical station’	Desc. Rem.:AL Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1836	Dún na bhíorach	dúch (scriosta):AL Nóta i ndúch in AL agus é scriosta/Note in ink in AL (crossed out)
1836	Dún á bhiorach ‘Dún Á Bhiorachis the sound a as in father’ [dúch] For an account of the battle of Doonaveeragh & O’Donnell’s speech to his army see Dr O’Conor’s Memoirs of his grandfather p.115’	dúch:AL Foirm Ghaeilge (go hiondúil) nó nóta i ndúch, nach léir cé a scríobh
1836	Dunaveeragh	O’Donnell Speech:AL (Sl) O’Donnell Speech, foinse in AL, Co. Shligigh / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, Co. Sligo.
1836	Doonaveeragh	OD:AL O'Donovan (leagan Gaeilge de logainm nó nóta agus é scríofa le dúch; John O’Donovan / Seán Ó Donnabháin a scríobh de ghnáth), ex AL. A note or an Irish form of a placename in the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, usually written by John O'Donovan. Bliain: 1830-40, Bliain: 1835, Bliain: 1838
1836	Dún Ua bFiachrach “fort of the Ui Fiachrach” ‘The congregation shall make way for him at the altar saying that hero fought at the battle of Dunaveeragh’	OD:AL O'Donovan (leagan Gaeilge de logainm nó nóta agus é scríofa le dúch; John O’Donovan / Seán Ó Donnabháin a scríobh de ghnáth), ex AL. A note or an Irish form of a placename in the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, usually written by John O'Donovan. Bliain: 1830-40, Bliain: 1835, Bliain: 1838
1836	Dún á bhiorach ‘was great battle fought there – very high hill’	pl:AL Nóta nó leagan Gaeilge scríofa i bpeann luaidhe in AL/ Note or Irish form written in pencil in AL Bliain: 1838
1844	Dún na b-Fiarach	Hy Fiach. Leathanach: (léirscáil) The Genealogies, Tribes, & Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, commonly called O’Dowd’s Country: now for the first time published from the Book of Lecan... Údar: John O Donovan, Bliain foilsithe: 1844, Áit foilsithe: Dublin
1844	Dún na bhFiarach	Hy Fiach. Leathanach: (léirscáil) The Genealogies, Tribes, & Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, commonly called O’Dowd’s Country: now for the first time published from the Book of Lecan... Údar: John O Donovan, Bliain foilsithe: 1844, Áit foilsithe: Dublin
1938	Dún Ua bhFiachrach	Elphin PN The Placenames of Elphin Diocese by M.J.Connellan, P.P.., Kilglass, Roscommon Bliain: 1938, Nóta: Presented to the Place-Names Commission by Author - 21. 10. 1952, Cóip sa Bhrainse Logainmneacha
2010	[duːnə ˈviːrə] [duːnə veːrə]	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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