Dún Aonghasa
Dún Aonghasa is the best-known of several prehistoric hill forts on the Aran Islands of County Galway, Ireland. It lies on Inis Mór, at the edge of a 100-metre-high cliff. A popular tourist attraction, Dún Aonghasa is also an important archaeological site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Herbert Ortner, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Fort
- Description: fort
- Also known as: “Dun Aengus”, “Dun Aonghasa”, and “Dunaengus”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Temple MacDuagh Church and Serpent’s Lair.
Temple MacDuagh Church
Photo: Nanorfitzy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Temple MacDuagh Church is situated 780 metres northeast of Dún Aonghasa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilronan.
Kilronan
Village
Photo: Herbert Ortner, CC BY 3.0.
Cill Rónáin, unofficially anglicized as Kilronan, is the main settlement on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway in Ireland. Kilronan is situated 6 km east of Dún Aonghasa.
Dún Aonghasa
- Categories: archaeological site, promontory fort, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Dún Aonghasa” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dun Aengus”
- Basque: “Dún Aengus”
- Basque: “Dún Aonghasa”
- Catalan: “Dún Aengus”
- Catalan: “Dún Aonghasa”
- Chinese: “杜恩·昂哈薩遺跡”
- Dutch: “Dun Aengus”
- Finnish: “Dún Aonghasa”
- French: “Dun Aengus”
- German: “Dun Aengus”
- German: “Dún Aonghasa”
- Irish: “Dún Aengus”
- Irish: “Dún Aonghasa”
- Irish: “Dún Aonghusa”
- Italian: “Dún Aengus”
- Italian: “Dún Aonghasa”
- Japanese: “ドゥーン・エンガス”
- Japanese: “ドゥーン・エングサ”
- Polish: “Dún Aengus”
- Russian: “Дун-Энгус”
- Spanish: “Dun Aengus”
- Spanish: “Dún Aengus”
- Spanish: “Dun Aonghasa”
- Spanish: “Dún Aonghasa”
- Welsh: “Dun Aengus”
- Welsh: “Dún Aengus”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dún Aonghasa”. Photo: Herbert Ortner, CC BY 3.0.