Editing Dunseverick (section)

{{short description|Hamlet in County Antrim, Northern Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Dunseverick (alias Feigh)
| type                    = [[townland]]
| native_name             = {{langx|ga|Dún Sobhairce (Faithche)<ref name="logainm">[http://www.logainm.ie/61823.aspx Logainm] - Placenames Database of Ireland</ref> }}
| translit_lang1          = [[Irish language|Irish]]
| translit_lang1_type     = Derivation:
| translit_lang1_info     = Dún Sobhairce
| translit_lang1_type1    = Meaning:
| translit_lang1_info1    = Sobhairce's fort
| image_skyline           = DunseverickCastle.jpg
| imagesize               =
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| image_caption           = Dunseverick Castle
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| pushpin_map             = Northern Ireland#United Kingdom
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| pushpin_map_caption     = Dunseverick (alias Feigh) shown within Northern Ireland
| coordinates = {{coord|55.236|-6.456|region:GB_scale:20000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
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<!-- location ------------------>
| subdivision_type        = Sovereign state
| subdivision_name        = [[United Kingdom]]
| subdivision_type1       = Country
| subdivision_name1       = [[Northern Ireland]]
| subdivision_type2       = County
| subdivision_name2       = [[County Antrim|Antrim]]
| subdivision_type3       = Barony
| subdivision_name3       = [[Cary (barony)|Cary]]
| subdivision_type4       = Civil parish
| subdivision_name4       = Billy

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| established_title      = First recorded
| established_date      = Before 1609
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| parts_type              = Settlements
| parts_style             = para
| p1                      = Dunseverick
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| area_footnotes          = <ref name="OSNI">{{Cite web |url=http://maps.ehsni.gov.uk/SixInchSeries/Default.aspx |access-date=27 July 2012 |author=Northern Ireland Environment Agency |title=NIEA Map Viewer |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124125249/http://maps.ehsni.gov.uk/SixInchSeries/Default.aspx |archive-date=24 November 2011 }}</ref>
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| area_total_ha           = 103.60
| area_total_acre         = 256.01

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'''Dunseverick''' ({{etymology|ga|Dún Sobhairce|[[Sobairce|Sobhairce]]'s fort}})<ref>[http://www.logainm.ie/61823.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland]</ref> is a hamlet near the [[Giant's Causeway]] in [[County Antrim]], [[Northern Ireland]]. The name is also the alias for the townland of '''Feigh'''.<ref name="Placenames">[http://www.placenamesni.org/resultsdetail.phtml?entry=15396 Place Names NI]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} - Dunseverick (use Map Search for location)</ref> 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,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc02/pap1030/p1030.htm |title=An Analysis of Pre-Christian Ireland Using Mythology and A GIS |access-date=14 June 2015}}</ref> running from here to [[Navan Fort|Emain Macha]] and further to royal [[Hill of Tara|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]].<ref name="Placenames"/>