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Dún na bhFiarach
genitive: Dhún na bhFiarach
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Doonaveeragh
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Doonaveeragh
Doonaveeragh in Sligo; Dun-Ui-bhFiachrach, fort of (the tribe of) Hy Fiachrach.
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Joyce Leathanach: 308, Imleabhar: III
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1669 |
Duneveragh
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ASE Leathanach: 201
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1809 |
Donavoragh
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CGn. Leathanach: 646.271.445775
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1825 |
Doonaveeraugh
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1836 |
Doonaveeragh
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BS:AL Leathanach: Sl003,19
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1836 |
Donivera
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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’
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1836 |
Dún na bhíorach
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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’
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1836 |
Dunaveeragh
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1836 |
Doonaveeragh
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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’
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1836 |
Dún á bhiorach ‘was great battle fought there – very high hill’
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1844 |
Dún na b-Fiarach
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Hy Fiach. Leathanach: (léirscáil)
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1844 |
Dún na bhFiarach
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Hy Fiach. Leathanach: (léirscáil)
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1938 |
Dún Ua bhFiachrach
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2010 |
[duːnə ˈviːrə] [duːnə veːrə]
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