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Dunseverick Castle is on the causeway route in county Antrim not far from the Giant’s Causeway. Dunseverick Castle is a seaside fort built in 5th century AD by an ancient chieftain, Sobhairce. In 7th century AD Dál Riada, an extended tribal group, occupied this fort. They had maritime connections between Ireland and western Scotland. By 1250–1350 AD it had occupied by Earls of Ulster and then by O’Cahan’s and by 1560 AD the MacDonnells.
Saint Patrick and Dunseverick: It is believed that St patrick, the one of the patron saints of Ireland, baptized a local man, named Olcán- who later became a Ireland Bishop. There is an oval depression in the northern area which believed to be a holy well and known as Saint Patrick’s Well.
The Vikings attacked the fort couple of time in 871 and 924 AD and in 1964 by a Scottish commander Robert Munro. After Cromwellian troops attack in the 1650s, it was never refortified or reoccupied again
The site hasn’t been excavated. You can see the surviving remains of low earthworks. A small residential masonry tower is the only obvious ruin remaining now and part of it collapsed in 1978 which stands on the south edge of the promontory. Part of it collapsed in 1978 which was repaired and stabilised. The archaeological investigations at Dunseverick only happen within a cave at the south end. It was carried out in 2007 and 2008 and it did uncover the remains of a medieval era wall near at the mouth of the cave. Medieval pottery and animal bones also excavated from the cave.
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