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Posted By: GUEST,Guest
17-Aug-10 - 09:02 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Cliffs of Dooneen. WHERE?
Subject: RE: Origins: Cliffs of Dooneen. WHERE?
As you drive out of Ballybunion on the road to Beal, just where the Triple Road goes off to the right there is an ruined church. This was Doon church which stands on the cliffe of Doon.
In Ireland the suffix of "een" meening small is added to the end of a name as a sign of affectiion. For example Seaneen, Timeen (small Sean, small Tim). So the cliffs of Dooneen is a affectionit name for the cliffs of Doon.
By the way for all you Irish buffs, this church is named in the short story The Quiet Man from which the movie of the same name was made. The story of the Quiet man was set around Balybunion and in the area that the author Maurice Walsh was born. In the story he sees Mary Kate Danahur at Doon Church,