Dunseverick

Dunseverick (from Irish Dún Sobhairce 'Sobhairce's fort')^[3] is a hamlet near the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The name is also the alias for the townland of Feigh.^[4] It is most notable for Dunseverick Castle.

Dunseverick (alias Feigh) Irish: Dún Sobhairce (Faithche)[1]
townland
Irish transcription(s)
• Derivation:	Dún Sobhairce
• Meaning:	Sobhairce's fort
Dunseverick Castle
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Coordinates: 55°14′10″N 6°27′22″W
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	Northern Ireland
County	Antrim
Barony	Cary
Civil parish	Billy
First recorded	Before 1609
Settlements	Dunseverick
Area [2]
• Total	256.01 acres (103.60 ha)

One of the five great highways, or slighe of ancient Ireland, Slige Midluachra, had its terminal point at Dunseverick,^[5] running from here to Emain Macha and further to royal 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.^[4]