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Doon (Irish: ''Dún Bleisce'') is a village in east County Limerick, Ireland, close to the border of County Tipperary. It is also a civil parish in the historic barony of Coonagh. and is an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. The name Doon, deriving from the common Irish place name term ''Dún'' meaning "fort", can also be found as the name of various different townlands in Ireland. ==Origin of the name== In Irish ''Dún Bleisce''. ''Dún'' means fortification and the Ordnance Survey map of the area records eight ring forts. The main such ring fort is located behind the Church of Ireland Church outside the village. The ''Bleisce'' part is more difficult to explain. Speculation on the origin of the name revolves around three theories. The first theory is that the name is derived from a stream – in Irish ''fleisc'' - which flows through the village. The second is that ''Bleisc'' was the name of a swine herder for a local chieftain. The third is that ''Bleisc'' was "a woman of ill repute", a harlot whose "dún" was a favourite haunt of soldiers of the Crown. The first mention of the name ''Dún Bleisce'' was in the Annals of Inisfallen in 774〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=UCC - Annals of Inisfallen )〕 and for hundreds of years the village was known by this name. In 2003, the Placename Commission recommended that the official translation for Doon be changed to ''An Dún'' as it "was the appropriate Irish name for the village". After a sustained campaign by locals which included a motion being adopted by Limerick County Council in November 2006 to request the name be changed back, the locals got their wish. The Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Eamon O'Cuiv, approved the reversion saying that the alternative ''Dún Bleisce'' had an "attested historical basis".
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