Dun (fortification)

Ruined dun in Loch Steinacleit on Lewis
Walls of Dún Aonghasa, a dun on Inishmore, Ireland
Dunamase, central Ireland (from Irish Dún Másc, "Másc's fort")

A dun is an ancient or medieval fort. In Ireland and Britain it is mainly a kind of hillfort and also a kind of Atlantic roundhouse.


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