Note 1044 — Chapter XI · MOTTE-CASTLES IN IRELAND

See J. E. Lloyd, Cymmrodor, xi., 24; Skeat’s English Dictionary, “town.” In the “Dindsenchas of Erin,” edited by O’Beirne Crowe, Journ. R. S. A. I., 1872-1873, phrases occur, such as “the dun was open,” “she went back into the dun,” which show clearly that the dun was an enclosure. In several passages dun and cathair are interchanged.