Duneane

Duneane or Dún Dá Éan in its Gaelic form, is a civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Toome Upper and contains the town of Toome.

The name derives from the Irish: Dún Dá Éan (fort of the birds). which came about from a local legend about St Brigid and St Patrick, where St Brigid would build her church on the site of wherever she came upon two blackbirds sitting on a deer's horns.

The parish is bounded by County Londonderry, the civil parishes of Portglenone and Drummaul, and to the south by Lough Neagh. It contains 48 townlands.

There are five churches in the Parish. Sacred Heart Cargin, St Oliver Plunketts Toome and Our Lady of Lourdes Moneyglass which are Catholic. Duneane Church in Lismacloskey is Church of Ireland (which replaced a former Catholic Chapel on the same site) and then Duneane Presbyterian Church in Ballylenully.

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