placenamesDoon
Dún
Lewis identified twelve Tipperary townlands within the wider historical parish.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Dún · Irish · main form · validated name
- Doon · English · main form
Place & story
The Tipperary portion
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Doon concerns a parish extending across Limerick and Tipperary. He identified twelve townlands in Tipperary, together comprising 4,700 acres, and placed Glengare, the residence of G. Hodges, on one of them. The wider parish included meadow and pasture liable to flooding by the Dead and Mulcairn rivers. These river observations concern Lewis’s cross-county parish; he did not assign all the flooded land to its Tipperary portion. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.59765, -8.26918
- Mapped area
- 112.13 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2271 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Doon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Doon, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.