Dunseverick

{{short description|Hamlet in County Antrim, Northern Ireland}}

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| name = Dunseverick (alias Feigh)

| type = townland

| native_name = {{langx|ga|Dún Sobhairce (Faithche)[http://www.logainm.ie/61823.aspx Logainm] - Placenames Database of Ireland }}

| translit_lang1 = Irish

| translit_lang1_type = Derivation:

| translit_lang1_info = Dún Sobhairce

| translit_lang1_type1 = Meaning:

| translit_lang1_info1 = Sobhairce's fort

| image_skyline = DunseverickCastle.jpg

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| image_caption = Dunseverick Castle

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| subdivision_type = Sovereign state

| subdivision_name = United Kingdom

| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = Northern Ireland

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Antrim

| subdivision_type3 = Barony

| subdivision_name3 = Cary

| subdivision_type4 = Civil parish

| subdivision_name4 = Billy

| established_title = First recorded

| established_date = Before 1609

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| area_total_ha = 103.60

| area_total_acre = 256.01

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Dunseverick ({{etymology|ga|Dún Sobhairce|Sobhairce's fort}})[http://www.logainm.ie/61823.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland] is a hamlet near the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The name is also the alias for the townland of Feigh.[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) 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,{{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}} 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.