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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 Castle also formed part of the O'Cahan possessions until it was destroyed by Scottish troops under the command of Robert Monro during the Irish Rebellion of 1641. [1] The clan suffered a blow during the battle of Drumderg, where fifteen O'Cahan chieftains were slain in battle against the Normans and their gaelic allies. [2]
Dunseverick Castle is situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, near the small village of Dunseverick and the Giant's Causeway. Dunseverick Castle and earthworks are Scheduled Historic Monuments in the townland of Feigh , in Causeway coast and Glens district council, at grid ref: C9871 4467.
Slige Midluachra is the old northern road sometimes known High Kings Road that ran in ancient times from the Tara, Ireland to Dunseverick on the north coast of Northern Ireland. It was one of the legendary Five Roads of Tara , site of the ancient Seat of Ireland's High Kings .
The house of O'Conor also produced two High Kings of Ireland, Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair and his son Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, the last High King of Ireland. The family seat is Clonalis House outside Castlerea in County Roscommon. The current O'Conor Don is Desmond O'Conor (b. 22 September 1938) who lives in Rotherfield, East Sussex in England. [2]
The stones inside the wooden structure may represent souls in the house of the dead, [7] or the souls of fallen warriors in their equivalent of Valhalla. [11] Another theory is that the monument symbolizes a union of the three main classes of society: druids (the wooden frame), warriors (the stones) and farmers (the soil). [11]
A druid was a member of the high-ranking priestly class in ancient Celtic cultures. Druids were religious leaders as well as legal authorities, adjudicators, lorekeepers, medical professionals and political advisors.
Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah relates the facts of The Holocaust and addresses the consequences in the setting of the flood of deaths on the Underworld. [1] As Guide du Rôliste Galactique notes, "It is necessary to differentiate the supernatural influences of the Dark World from historical reality: the creatures did not cause the Shoah in this universe, they only profited from it."