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Dounan

An Dùnan


Meaning

Little fort


Settlement

Location

Wigtownshire

Dumfries and Galloway

DG9

NW965663


English / Map Form: Dounan

Gaelic Form: An Dùnan


Post Town: STRANRAER

Postcode area: DG9

County: Wigtownshire

Local Authority: Dumfries and Galloway

English / Map Form: Dounan

Gaelic Form: An Dùnan


Sources

Dunan                      1747-55                   Roy
Dounan                   1849                        OS Six-inch 1st Ed.
Dounan                   1901                        Bartholomew

“There is a place called Dounan Park and Hill about a mile farther south on the coast, but I am told there are no remains of a port to be seen there.” Maxwell 1878: 70

Additional Information

DOUNAN KNOWE
[Situation] Adjoining the east Side of Portobella about 10 chains NE [North east] of March Port
A Small hill on the farm of Doonen park the Soil is arable on the Summit is a Trigl. [Trigonometrical] Station Called by Trigl [Trigonometrical] party “Doonen” OS1/35/15/29
V. The Doonan of Dally. — Plate XVI. This fort is about two and a half miles south of Corswall Lighthouse, at Dally Bay. It is above twenty furlongs in a straight line from Dunskirloch, on the flat grassy summit of a rocky headland of the ancient 50 feet sea beach, south-west of Dally, on the property of Charles Wallace, Esq., who takes a lively interest in the local antiquities. The site is bounded on the south by Dally Burn, which has cut its channel to the sea in the line of a dyke of diorite rock.

“Both the Doonan of Dally and Dinbonnet are said to be haunted by fairies.” Maxwell 1878: 68

“In Kirkcolm there is said to be no trace of a fort at the Dounan of Airies.” Maxwell 1878: 63

“Chapel Dounan, a little to the east of Balsarroch, has also been quite destroyed.” Maxwell [George Wilson] 1878: 73

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