Dunseverick

Dunseverick ( Irish: Dún Sobhairce ) is now only a hamlet, located seven kilometers east of Bushmills in the extreme north of the county Antrim, near the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. The Causeway Cliff Path passes between Dunseverick Port in the east and the Giant's Causeway to the west of the peninsula. The place was the end point of the historical King Street ( Slige Midluachra ) leading from Tara to the port from which it came on the shortest route to Scotland.

The Dunseverick Castle is located on the peninsula, which belongs to the National Trust since 1962. The place must have been a Promontory Fort before the construction of the Castle. The unsuccessfully attacked in 1641 the castle was up to its destruction by the troops of Cromwell, in 1650, lived and is now available only as a ruin. A small residential tower survived until 1978, when he crashed into the sea. The castle has a source on the north side, about three feet from the edge of the cliff, hundreds of feet above the sea. It was called Tubber Phadrick or St. Patrick 's Well and belongs to the Holy sources of Ireland.

The O'Cahan Clan ( Ó Cathain ) had Dunseverick 1000-1320 AD and again from the mid-15th century. The last Irish owner of the castle was Giolla Dubh Ó Cathain who anglicized his name in 1660 McCain / O'Kane.