An Dún/Doon

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Hierarchy

townland

An Dún

genitive: an Dúin

validated name (What is this?)

(Irish)

Doon

(English)

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Glossary

dún, dúnaibh

English fort

Hierarchy

county

Dún na nGall/Donegal

barony

Cill Mhic Réanáin/Kilmacrenan

civil parish

Cill Mhic Réanáin/Kilmacrenan

electoral division

An Tearmann/Termon

Centrepoint

55.0295, -7.82274latitude, longitude

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Archival records

Historical references

1835c	Dooan	Brooke Maps 1764:AL (DG) Brooke Maps 1764, foinse in AL, Achadh nUinseann, Cill Mhic Réanáin, Co. Dhún na nGall / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, Aghanunshin, Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
1835c	Doon & Doone Well	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1835c	"There is a well in this townland called Doon Well much frequented by the Peasantry and where many miraculous cures are said to be ? performed. In the townland is a Rock called the "Rocke of Downe" on which the O'Donnells Princes of Tirconnell were inaug	Desc. Rem.:AL Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1835c	Dún 'a fort'	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
1835c	Downe or originally the Rock of Kilmacrenan	Sketches:AL Sketches in the North & South of Ireland, foinse in AL / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks

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