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Dun Aengus

Dún Aonghasa is the best-known of several prehistoric hill forts on the of , Ireland. It lies on , at the edge of a 100-metre-high cliff. A popular tourist attraction, Dún Aonghasa is also an important archaeological site.
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  • Type: Nature reserve
  • Description: fort
  • Also known as: “Dun Aonghasa”, “Dún Aonghasa”, and “Dunaengus”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest

Highlights include Inis Mór and Onaght Cashel.

Photo: Imehling, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the largest of the of , off the west coast of Ireland. The name simply means "big island" and there are half-a-dozen such places in Ireland, but this one is by far the largest of that name, with a population of 820 in 2022.

Photo: Nanorfitzy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photo: Paucabot, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kilronan.

Village
Photo: Herbert Ortner, CC BY 3.0.
Cill Rónáin, unofficially anglicized as , is the main settlement on , one of the off the coast of in Ireland.

Dun Aengus

Latitude
53.1255° or 53° 7′ 32″ north
Longitude
-9.7666° or 9° 45′ 60″ west
Open location code
9C5G46GM+59
Open­Street­Map ID
way 367009778
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­nature_reserve
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q1265205
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Dun Aengus” 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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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Dún Aonghasa Visitor Centre and Temple MacDuagh Church.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Dun Aengus”. Photo: Herbert Ortner, CC BY 3.0.