walled enclosure · defensive wall, bawn, bulwark, bailey · breakwater (construction in or around a harbour)
çekim: çoğul bábhúin · tamlayan bábhúin
köken: From Middle Irish badún, possibly a compound of ba (“cows”) + dún (“fortress”) The older spelling badhbhdhún implies a compound of badhbh (“war goddess; vulture”) + dún, though this is semantically unlikely.