Duneane

Duneane or Dún Dá Éan in its Gaelic form, is a civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Toome Upper and contains the town of Toome.^[1]

The name derives from the Irish: Dún Dá Éan (fort of the birds).^[2] which came about from a local legend about St Brigid and St Patrick, where St Brigid would build her church on the site of wherever she came upon two blackbirds sitting on a deer's horns.

The parish is bounded by County Londonderry, the civil parishes of Portglenone and Drummaul, and to the south by Lough Neagh.^[1] It contains 48 townlands.^[3][4]

There are five churches in the parish, including Sacred Heart Cargin, St Oliver Plunketts Toome, and Our Lady of Lourdes Moneyglass which are Catholic; Duneane Church in Lismacloskey, which is Church of Ireland (and replaced a former Catholic Chapel on the same site); and Duneane Presbyterian Church in Ballylenully.

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Townlands

A

Aghacarnaghan, Alder Rock, Annaghmore, Artlone

B

Ballycloghan, Ballydonnelly, Ballydugennan, Ballylenully, Ballylurgan, Ballymatoskerty, Ballynacooley, Ballynafey, Ballynamullan, Brockish

C

Cargin, Cargin Island, Carlane, Carmorn, Cloghogue, Creeve, Creggan

D

Derrygowan, Derryhollagh, Drumboe, Drumcullen, Drumderg, Drumraymond, Duck Island

G

Gallagh, Garriffgeery, Gortgarn, Gortgill, Greenan

H

Harvey's Rock

K

Killyfast

L

Lismacloskey

M

Moneyglass, Moneynick, Moneyrod, Muckrim, Mullaghgaun

R

Ranaghan

S

Staffordstown

T

Tamnaderry, Tamnaghmore, Toome, Tullaghbeg

People

• Henry Cooke (1788–1868) was an Irish presbyterian leader of the early and mid-nineteenth century. His first settlement was at Duneane, where he was ordained on 10 November 1808, though only 20 years old, as assistant to Robert Scott, with a pittance of £25 Irish. Here his evangelical fervour met with no sympathy. and on 13 November 1810 he resigned the post.
• Roddy McCorley (died 1800) fought in Toome, Randalstown and Antrim Town in the United Irishmen Rebellion of 1798 and was hanged by the British at Toome Bridge. A century later, he became the subject of a popular nationalist song by the poet Anna Johnston, who was also known as Ethna Carbery, contained with a collection known as 'The Four Winds of Erin'. McCorley was born in Duneane and a nephew arranged his reburial in Duneane Church graveyard in 1852, though his grave is unmarked as the British smashed his headstone.

See also

• List of civil parishes of County Antrim