JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY CUm.6.nn S8-'.\11C.6.1S 'OUn 11.6. n5.6.lt .I • @;he ~ounty listorital !'ontgal Founded at Lifford on 20th December, 1946. VOL. l. President: S. D. MacLochlainn, Co. Manager, Lifford. Vice • Presidents : Rev. J. H. Bewglass, The Manse, Ballindrait ; Rev. Dr. Fury, MacDevitt Institute, Glenties ; No. 4. Very Rev. P. MacLoingsight, P.P., Aghyran. Castlederg. Capt. Eamon O'Boyle, Marlborough Rd., Dublin. Council: Mrs. J. H. Bewglass, Mrs. Hugh Cochrane, Mrs. W. T. C. Cochrane, Miss :'.\faire Gillespie, Very Rev. Charles Boyce, P.P., Very Rev. Peadar MacLoingsigh, P.P., Rev. E. J. Mullin, C.C., Rev..James Ma~Laughlin, M.A., Messrs. F. P. Britton, Rupert O'Cochh!-lil;j.. Emerson. W . Ross Henderson, J.P., S. P. Kerrigan, M.B., P. J. MacGiil, N.T., Sean D. MacLochlainn, Liam MacMenamin, B.A., N.T., Sea.mus Ruadh O'Donnell, N.T., Dominick O'Kelly. B.A., B.rPh., and Mrs. Creswell White, Sallybrook, Manorcunningham. Ho-norary Treasurer : LUCIUS EMERSON, Vocatbnal Schools, Ballyshannon. Joint Honorary Secreti-·ui.35 and Etlitn-rial Council : Rev. H. BONAR, B.A., S.T.L., St. Eunan's Coliege, Letterkenny. LIAC\1 MacMENAMIN, B.A., N.T., Labadish, Manorcunningham. J. C. T. MacDONAGH, B. Comm., M.I.B.I., Ballybofey (Honorary Editor) . .Esq., Ball?<bofey; ~~T. -Doherty-,--G.£.; Convo-y;--W,.J..-Oohl:'rty-Bsf.!:1,
.J?URNAL OF TJ;IE C<?UNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAJ;.. SOCIETY LIST OF MEMBERS, 1949 The President, Sean D. MacLochlainn, Esq., Co. Manager, Lifford. Miss Maud Alexander, Dromore, Raphoe; Miss Pearl Alexander. Dromore, Raphoe; Mrs Anderson. Volt House, Raphoe; Miss C. E. AtkinS-On, Cavangarden, Ballyshannon; Dr. M. Bastible, Co. M. 0. H., C<>. Dublin; Miss E. M. Bennett, Greencastle, Moville; Rev. J. H. Bewglass, The Manse, Ballindrait; Mrs. Bewglass, The Manse, Ballindrait; Rev. H. Bonar, S. T. L., Le1rterkenny; D. Bonar Esq., ~- D.S., Dungloe: Very Rev. Charles Boyce, P.P.; Ardara; Mrs. J. ~ ·Boyd, Knock· na Moe, Omagh, Co. Tyrone; F. Brady Esq., B. Agric. See., Lfff.ord; Very Rev. H. Boyle, P.P., Rathmullen; Dr. J . Boyle, Ardara; Mrs. A. Bustard, The Villa, Clones, Co. Monaghan; A Albert Campbell Esq.; F.R.S.A.I., Belfast; P. Cannon Esq., L.L.B., 1 Herbert Rd., Ballsbridge, Dublin; Central Catholic Library, Dublin; P. Cleary Esq., N.T. Broadpath, Convoy; R. 0. Cochlainn Esq. Roslare, Co. Wexford; Mrs. H. Cochrane, Lifford; W. T. C. Cochrane Esq., Edenmore, Stranorlar; Mrs. Cochrane, Edenmore, Stranorlar; Rev. J. A. Coulter, St. Co!umb's College, Derry; J .M. Cradock, Esq., ,welchtown; .D. J. Crossan, Esq., Ballybofey; Miss Nora Cunningham, Killy:mard House, Donegal; Miss Janet Cunning.ham, Killymatd House, Donegal; County Library. Lifford £2. 2. O; P. Dallas Dallaghan 233.
J0URNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY Esq., Ballybofey; Rev. T. Doherty, C.C., Convoy; 'W'.J. D:.herty Esq., Ballin:iglac:k, Stranorlar; F. Dunleavy Esq., Ballybofey; R.J. Dickson Esq., Ph.D., Methodist College, Belfast; Derry Journal Ltd., Derry; L. Emerson Esq., Ballyshannon; J. Faughnan Esq., Ardara; M. Feely Esq., M. P. S. I., Ardara; Rev. ·Dr. Fury, Gleruties; F. L. Galley Esq., Solicitor, High St., Ballymoney, Co. Antrim; D. Gallagher Esq.. Foster House, Raphoe; F. Gallagher Esq., Technical School, Stranorlar; Patrick Gallagher Esq., (Senior) Dungloe; Very Rev. T. P. Gallagher, Adm. Stranorlar; \V. G. Gallsgher Esq., Grianan, Cast12fin; P Gallen Esq., Clonmany; Miss M. Gillespie, Technical Schools, Ballyshannon; Dr.. G. Goodall, Ph. D., The Glen, Ramelton; Mrs. Goodall, The Glen, Ramelton; Dr. J. Gormley, Cine! Moan. Stranor· lar; Rev. A. Gwynn S.J., Milltown Park, Dublin; J.S. Hamilton Esq., D.L., Brownhall, Ballinitra; l\frs. Hamilton, Brownhall, Ba~ lintra; Dr. H. Hannigan, Stockton-on-Tees. England; J. Hannigan Esq.. B.E., Monaghan; Miss L. Hannigan, Sandycove, Dublin; J.A. Harvey Esq., N.T., Drumkeen; C. Healy Esq., M.P., Enniskillen; Very Rev. W. Hegarty, P.P., Culdaff; W. Ross Henderson Esq., J.P. Newtownstzw~ art; J.P. Herdman Esq.. Glenmore Lodge, Welchtown; Mrs. J.C. Herdman, Sion Mills, Strabane; Mrs O.E.G. Hollinger, The Manse. Ballymore; The Venerable Archdeacon Homan, Raphoe; P. Hynes Esq., M.A., Le1terkenny; P.A. Jackson Esq., Laputa, Ballyshannon; Very Rev. J. Kelly P.P., Kilmacrenan; Dr. S. P. Kerrigan. Lifford; Miss A. Kerr, Tamney, LeHerkenny; The Venerable Archdea:::on Kerr, P. P., Gortahork; Cecil King Esq., Ballyshannon; T. P. Kinder Esq., Stranorlar; Rev. R. Laird, The :\Ianse, Ardstraw, Co. Tyrone: Rev. Bro. Leo., De La Salle Schools, Ballyshannon; Rev. E. Long D.C.L. Drumkeen; Andrew Lowry Esq., Argrey, Ballindrait; F. Maguire Esq., 8 Lr., Main St., Letterkenny; P. Maguire Esq., Coo~ adawson, Stranorlar; C. D. Milligan Esq., "Londonderry Sentinel", Derry; Reverend Dr. ~1olloy, P . P., Dungloe; Col. R. E. Moody. Templenew, Ballyshannon; T. Mulhern Esq.. Cranogboy, Ardara; Rev. E. J. Mullin, C.C., Cloghan; E. McAteer Esq., M. P. Derry; Garda McBride, Mountcharles; F. McCarroll Esq., "Derry .Jburnal," Derry; Brian MacCathbhaid, Uas., Kilcar; J. C. T. MacDonagh Esq., Highfield House, Stranorlar; P. McDevitt Esq., Stranakcvlin House, Glenties; H.P. "\1cE!hinny Esq., Glenveigh Castle, Co. Donegal; P. MacGill Esq., Wood House, Ardara; D. McGlinchey Esq., Me:mbog, Cloghan; J. McG!inchey Esq., N.T., Killynure House, Convoy; H. McGuinness Esq., Anchor Bar, Moville; Mrs. P. McHugh, N.T., Hillhead, Ardara; Rev. James Mac Laughlin, M.A., Letterkenny; J . F. Mac Laughlin Esq., N.T., Cloghari; S. D. Mac Lochlainn Uas., Co. Manager, Lifford; Very Rev. P. Mac Loingsigh, P.P Aghyaran, Co. Tyrone; Rev. A. McLoone, Letterkenny; Cormac MacManus, Tanatalon; Seamus Mac Manus, Tanatalon and Florida U.S.A; L. McMenamin Esq., B.A., N.T., Labadish; J. McMenamin, P. C., Co. · Co., Beech House, Ballybofey; Sean (Ban) McMenamin Esa.. Glenties: Rev. Ernan McMullin. B. D.. B. Sc.. The Grove, Stranorlar; Very Rev. M. McMullin, P.P., Carrigart; Very Rev. P. Canon McMullin. P.P., DoP;egal; B. McRuaire, uas, Tanatallon; J. B. McNul234
J·.)URNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL H,ISTORICAL SOCIETY ty Esq., Solicitor, Raphoe; R.B. McNulty Esq., Lifford; A. O'Boyle Esq., Stranorlar; P. O'Brogan Esq., Halston St., Dublin; S. O'Cinneide Uas., O.S., Dung1oe:·S. O"Domhn2.ill, Uas, TM Library, 19 Dawson St. Dublin; Niall O'Donne~l Esq., 33, Belgrave Rd., Clontarf, Dublin; J. O'Donnell, Esq., N.T., Meenbanad; P. O'Donnell Esq., Camus Ballybo_ fey; J. O'Donnell lj:sq., Main St., Ardara; Dr. J. O'Delarga,. Universi>ty Co~lege, Dc;blin; District Justice S. O'Hanrahan, Ballyshannon; D. O'Kelly Esq., B.A., B. Ph., Geevagh, Co. Sligo; D.J. O'Sullivan Esq., Tory Island; Dr Donnell Owings, University of Oklahoma, U.S..A; Th.; Lib:ary, Queen's University, Belfast; Royal Irish Academy, .Oubli!l; Colin JDhnston Robb. Esq., Ballinahinch, Co. Down; R. Savage Esq., Tory Island; Dr. 'R. Simmington, Public Records Office Dublin; H.. r. Sims Esq., L.L.B., Solicitor, Strabane; T.M.J. Slevin Esq., B.E., Ballybofey; Harry P. Swan Esq., P.C., M.R.I.A., Buncrana; £1-ls-Od. Mrs Edward Sweeney, 3608 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia. U.S.A; J. Johnston Sweeney Esq., New York, U.S.A.; G..E. Troup Esq., 23 Cluny Drive, Edinburgh, Scotland; S. Ua. Raghallaig, Uas., 84 .Dean Swif\t Rd., BaUymun, Dublin; Capt. W'.H. Wagentrieber, Inchenagh, Lifford: £3-3s~Od. Mrs. A.M. Walker, Summerhill, Ballybofcy; Dr. C. Ferguson Walker, Kilcadden, Killygordon; P. J. Ward Esq.. Co. Registrar, Lifford; A. M. West Esq., Ardnamona, Loch Eske; Mrs. Wheeler, Cloghan Lodge, Cloghai1; Mrs. Creswe~l White, Sallybrook, Manorctmningham; Mrs. P..Whitelaw, S•tranorlar; Mrs. H. W~att, Rackfield, Stranorlar; lJransactions of the c5ociety 1946-SO Dec. 1946 Lifford:-Foundation of the Society at the County House Lifford. Chairman-Very Rev. P. Mac Loingsigh P.P. April 1947 Stnnorlar :-J. C. T. MacDo.nagh, !'County iDonegal in Anglo Irish Literature," members and friends entertained to tea at Vocational Schools by Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Bastible, Mrs. Mac Donagh, Mrs. Himnig.an and Miss Maire Walsh. August 1947. Lettermaca.ward :-P. J. MacGill, "Notes on the Sandhill Settlements of Co. Donegal". Examinaition of the Dooey Gravemound. Members entertained to tea by Mr. and Mrs. John Boyle. ()clljober 1947. Beltany:-Andrew Lowry: "The Tops-a Druidic Stone Cincle". December 1947. Lifford:- Dr. S. P. O'Riordain: "Al!ltiquities of the Irish Courutryside". Afternoon tea at Conneyboro Hotel. 1235.
JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY S1uing 1948. Letterkenny:-Rev. Dr. Cunea: "Territorial limits of the Diocese of Raphoe." D. O'Kelly : "Letterke:my and its Surroundings". Whit Monday 1948. Brownhall as the guests of Capt. J. S. Hamilton and the late Mrs Hamilton: H. Deery "The Parish -of Drumholm". Tour of the Pullins with Capt. Hamilton and Miss Hamilton. Afternoon te<i at Brownhall. August Bank Holiday 1948. Doe Castle: Papers read by Messrs Dunnion, O'Kelly ani MacD'Jnagh. Autumn 1948. Lifford:-Exhibition of Books, Maps and Mss. relating to Co. Donegal, arranged with the C-ounty Library. Film, Father C. Fmnegan and Father J . Doherty, "The Beginning of History". ST. Paitrick's Day 19<49. Ardara.:-P. J. Mac Gill: "The Woollen Industry and Co. Donegal." Members entertained to tea by Very Rev. Chas. Boyce, P.P., and ladies of Ardara. Wh.it Monday 1949 The Grianan of Aileach :- Papers read by L. Emerson and J.C. Mac Donagh. August Bank Holiday. Ballysha.nnon:-Antiquities in and around the Abbey, guide, Mr. J. McGonigle. Autumn 1949. "'The Two Mile Stones- a pre-Christian settlement.., Paper read by S.D. Mac Lochlainn. Members and friends . entertained to tea at Cavangarden by <the Misses Atkinson. Wi1r:Jer 1949. Lifford :- Book and Mss. Exhibition arranged with County Library: Paper- J. C. Mac Donagh - "Evolution and devolution of Local Government in Co. Donegal." Spril11g 1950 Raphoe:-Venerable Archdeacon Homan."The Cathedral"; T. A. Morrow. "The Castle"; A. Lowry "Antiquities around Raphoe". Summ.~-r 1950. Conwall, Gartan, Templedouglas : with the Londonderry Field Club. Members ·were entertained to tea at the Gartaa Hotel by Rev. Rkhnrd _Laird, Pre:;;ident Londonderry Fie:d Club, and Miss R. Laird. Autumn 1950. Letterkenny Civic Week:-Exhibition of Irish Antiquities arranged through the courtesy of the Nati-onal museum of Ireland, H.P. Swan, Andrew Lowry and other members of the Society. Dr. G. A. Hayes McCoy, "The Irish Gallowglasses." Dr. E. O'Gallagher, "Ulster Folk Music." Andrew Lowry "Experiences as a collector of Irish Antiquities'". 236.
JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY Chotes and ~ueries MILITARY HIISTORY IN COUNTY DONEGAL MacNevin in the appendex to his History of the Volunteers of 1782 (Centenary Edition) gave the following as the delegates who represented County Donegal at the Dungannon Convention : Col. A. Montgomery, Col. John Hamilton, C=il. R. MciCliintock, Lt. Col. Chas. Nes·bitt, Lt. Col. A. Stewart. He also gave a list of the various corps formed in Ireland, but its incompleieness is apparent even if one tries to identify the Corps commanded by these Donegal delegates. l should like to place on record my amendment of 1MacNevin's list in so far as it relates to Donegal :- 1. The Arran Phalanx Scarlet faced :white, Cap1t. Dawson, Lt. Fredrick GorE: · Earl of Arran. (Mac Nevin) Was this a County Donegal Corps? 2. Donegal First Regiment. Lt. Col. Hamilton (Mac Nevin). Was he the County Delegate? 3. Ramelton Volunteers, Gapt. James Watt. (Mac Nevin). Mr. Andrew Lowry has a brass belt badge engraved "Ramelton Supplementary Yoemanry Corps" and he rightly ascribes it to the 1798 period. 4. Raplrce Ba~alion - 1 July, 1778, scarlet faced blue, Lt. Col. Chas. Nesbitt. (,'.\facNevin) See "Three Hundred years in Innishowen" (Young). MacNevin's title is not correct-see Uls.ter Archaeological Journal Vols. 111 and 1 V (11897) for illustration of sil· ver belt badge belonging to (Rev) John Lamy, L.L.D., (High Sheriff for Co. Donegal 1785) with the inscription "Royal Raphoe Volunteers." Mr. ·Lowry has a brass badge with a similar inscription. 5. The Loyal Ballyshannon Volunteers. 8. The Killybegs Corps. These 237. two units are noticed to some length by Hugh Allingham in his "History of Ballyshannon." The flags mentioned by him are now in the National .Museum of Ireland and some excellent preservation work has been carried out on them by Dr. G. A. Hayes Mac Coy. 7. T'he UJ.!!1~er Fourth Regiment. .Col. R .McCUntock. (Mac Nevin) I assume that this was a Donegal ::egimerit as its Colonel was one of the County Delegates. 8. The Lifford Volunteers. Belt badge found by Mr. Lowry near Argrey. 9.?. Mr. Lowry has a brass belt badge, one of many still to he found i•n the Whitecross, Raphoe district. It bears the inscription Juvenum Manus (Crown surmounting a harp) Emicat Ardens and he believes that this was worn by a corps drawn from that area. As some of ·these Corps ;were reformed or re-incorporated during the last decade of the 18th century I now swbmit a list of ;te<nritorial units whioh I have compiled for that period :- • 1.. .. The Tir Hugh Cavalry. ·Commission in the Hamilton Mss. at Bownhall. 2. The lhyal Finn Water Corps. Founded by Capt. John Cochrane of Edenmore. (Burke : Landed Gentry of Great Britain. 1925.) Corpora,1 Richard Jenkins (Grand Jury Mss. in C.L.L.) 3. The RaDhOe Corps (See J. D.H.S. Vol. 1 No. 3 p.) 4. The Culdaff Yeomanry. :Lieut. Thomas Harvey (Grand Jury Mss. in the County Library at Lifford). These may be identical with the Culdaff Infantry (U.J.A. op. cit.) 5. The Letterkenny Yeomanry. Sergt. John Moore (Grand Jury Mss.) 6. The Le11erkenny Gavalry. Sergt. Geo. Barrett (Barnet) (G. J. Mss.) 7. The Malin Caval.ry. Stana-
,Jo.)URNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY a:-d at Malin Hall 1897 (U.J.A.) 8. The l\'t..1.lin Infantry. Drum at Malin Hall 189.7 ·(U.J.A.) Tnese iis•s are not exhaustive and I should like to see them amplified and cnl.arged. As territorial units they were in addition to tne Donega.1 Milirtia which appears to have set its roots as E.arly as the middle of the 17th century? According to Major General Sir Henry McAnaly, *The Irish Militia a Mr. Clements. of Co. Kild.a·re is the present custodian of Donegal Militia records and the regiment is worthy ·Of a short history in this Journal. One of its las.t Company Commanders, Captain J. S. Harrii~1.on, D.L., is a past President of this Society. "M.ARJS" >!<"The Irish Militia 1793-1816: a social and military study." Dwblin : Clonmore and ReynO:ds, 1949. FROM DONEGAL 'I•O PERU - O'GA,LLAGHERS IN EXILE "Senor Manuel Gallagher, 65 year old .F'o0reign Minister for Peru, has arrived in Washington for a hemis·phere conference ·Of Latin - American Statesmen. 1Speaking P ei uvian Senor Galla.gher told the Irish News /\ g 'ncy ihrough an interpreter ' \ •Ty grandfather was a scientist a::id he came from keland. He came to Peru from County Donegal on the Cha.r:les Da~in expedition of the last century. He liked Peru so much that he stayed there and sent home to keland for his sweetheart who beeame grandmothe•r'. Senor Gall::i•gher was born in Lima, capital of Peru and he is the son of Pat. ricio and Pelt'I'anilla Ga:11aghe.r". (People's Press. 1950) SOME SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MERCHANT BA·NKERS OF CO. HONEGA;L, The :follo:wirur list of token coins has been brought to my notice. Ca·n any reader add to it or suo·olv biographical information relating to the merchants who issued them?- .;1) .William Anderso:(n)- Harp with six strings Laterkenie (star) march(t). ld. (2) . IJames Coningham ld. Laterkenie .(diamond) marchi(t) Harp with seven st:'ings. (3) Ion Mack(y) march (t) McCunningham 166o. ; 4) Ion Oalhowne, .Castlefeine, ld. ,5) Wil. Wigto:i., Donegal. (6) Geo. Anderson, Rathmullen. ld. 'I'HE BROOKES OF BROOKHALL (now Fort Stewart) IVIr. Basil G. Brooke, 23 Halsey St., London S.W.3., would like tJ know the whereabouts of the family burial p.[ace of the above. Tory Island Lighthouse, Meenlaragh · P.O., Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. 24/ 8/ 1950. D2ar •'\fr. McDonagh, I see by a news item which appears. in to-day's Derry Journal, that an 18-centuries-old Roman coin was found near Conwal burying ground. Some time ago a man on this Island, J. Meenan, brought me portions of coins which he found near the tmditiorual site of Balor's Castle. I sent them to my friend. A.W. ·Stelfox, formerly of the National .Museum. He took them to Dr. O'iSu:llivan who looks after the coins in the Art Divisi.on of the M:useum. He said they are silver pennies of the reign of Ed.ward the .First, and minted b·tween 12•79 and 1307 A.D. Dr. O':Sulli~a.n thinks one certainly between 1,302 and 1,307, the other older. They may be of some use to you in your capacity of Hon Secretary to the Histor- ·'cal Society. I told ':Vlr. Stelfox of four other square coins which were found by the· i&lande·r.s s·Ome y2ars ago, •and sold to visitors from Belfast ,a.t ten shillings each, £2 for the four. Dr. O'SulPv!":n says that these were almost certainly Spanish and minted during Philip's reign; i.e. Elizabethan - the time of the 238.
J·..)URNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY Armada, but he does not suppose that they came from .the A:-mada as there was much trade between Spain and Ireland a.bout that (John O'Donovan in County Donegal in 1835) By Kit Taaffe. "Clonmany is the most Irish Parish I have yet visited; the men, only, who go to markets and fairs, speak a little English, the women and children speak Irish only. This arises from their distance from villages and towns and from being completed environed by mountains which form a gigantic barrier between them and the more civilized and less civil inhabitants of the lower country. I never heard Irish better spoken, nor experienced more natural civility and innocence than in that very secluded and wild parish." (23rd August, 1835). THE MacDERMOT'm (?) "The [0) Duibhdhiarmas Doo-vearma's the ancient chiefs of B~edcha, of the race of Owen are very numerous in the parish: one of the name is the best seanachie or historian in Movill·2. The name is now changing to Mac Derrr.ott! !" 1Moville 17 Au.gust. 1835). THE O'DOHERTYS OF INISHOWEN ''. . . . . John O'Doherty of the Townland of Bree. not far from ·Malin Well, a man full of years, traditions and hospitality. He thus traces his pedigree to Connor and Eny, who he says, was the fi:-st who got possession of Innishowen. Shan? MacDonogh, Mhic Cahir, Mhic Owen, Mhic Cahir, '.\'1hic Niall a Churry Mhic Dermot, Mhic Cooey, Mhic Brian Grooma, Mhic Cormac Carrach, .Mhic Sean More Mhic Hugh Mhic Connor an Eny. I got him to repeat this pedigree six times over to see if it were settled in his memory and found that 239. period. Yours sincerely, D. J. O'Sullivan. he can repeat all the names in succession with as much certainty as I could ABCD to Z. He says that all the respectable branches of the Doghel"ltys knew their pedigrees in the time of his grandfather. Let us now t ry the accuracy of this pedigree, by allowing thirty years for each generation, according to Newton's chonology. 1Co:1or an Eny O'Doher:ty, the first of the name set down in the Annals of the Four Mast:=rs as Lord of Inishowen died in the year 1413. '1433 Hugh 1473 1Shane More 1503 Cormack Carrach 1533 Brian Grooma 1563 Cooey 1593 Dermot 1623 Niall a Churry 1653 Cahir 1683 Owen 1713 Cahir 1743 Donogh 1773 Shane, now about 80 years old and has a son. 1803 Donnell, and a grandson. 1833 Shane. now a little boy. (21 Aug., 1835). ... . . Sir Cahir, by his hotheadness left his race without property but Big Tom Doherty of 1Muff (weiizht 23 stones) a rough cu&tomer. is purchasing Jnnishowen as fast ·as he can. 'T'om is worth. by all accounts, £ 170 OOO and his next aim is to '"''!Tchcise Kilde:-ry from Captain Bart who, if reuorts be true. is f:::ist running through his property. (18 Sept., 11835). "I want from O'Keeffe the account of the territories of TirConnell taken from the O'Doug-
.TOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY herty Mss. . . . . . he will find it in the Common Place Book into which he has copied an ithe Irish. poems on Aileach, Temiur etc." (Sept. 30, 1835). THE MacLAUCHLINIS ".... Saw the Reverend Mr. McLoughlin, P.P., of Muff, Burt and 'Inch a very intelligent and civil man who takes a great interest in our work. The name Uisge Chaoin, which the natives understand to mean light water has been derived from a holy well situated not far from the Chapel, the water of which on being weighed was found 1to be "the lightest in Ulster". Near the modern Roman Catholic Chapel stands the gaible and a part of the side walls of the Capella of Uisge Chaoin and around them a small grave yard, in which the grave stones exhibit the names of the principal Septs of Inishowen. I was moved by various emotions upon viewing this grave yard which encloses the ashes of Prince Eogan the first Christian convert in Innishowen, and of fifty generations of his descendants; and these emotions were heightened by viowing t h e nrincely figure of MacLou!thlin. the eldest branch of his descendP nts. who is now the actual possessor of the o~d grave yard and of the field in which the celebrated Uisge Chaoin or Clarifont springs". (August27, 1835). "Poor YlacLoughlin, who wmte the article on Burt Castle and the Greenan, died last spring of the cholera, as did his brother a few days after him. They were both classical teachers, and the eldest not 23 years old." (Sept. 27, 1835). "We are now in the capifal of Fa.naid . . . . Though Inishowen is .divided from it only by a narrow arm of the sea . . . , the natives look upon themselves as a different people and speak of the Inishonians as a debased and demoralised people. And yet the 240. men of Innisrtowen, are of the two, the m o r e estimable," (RathmuUan 30 Aug., 1835). · "The inhabitants of Fanaid have gotten the name of being a rude people, and for that reason the cftizens of Rathmu1len (which was anciently the Capital of rFanaid) deny that they are themselves Fanaidmen." (Hathmullen, 30 Aug., 1835). "We crossed (Mulroy Bay) and proceeded Southwards to the City of Carrickart, where we procured a comfortless lodging in the best house which that Great Town can boast of, a thatched house. a storey and a half high .... we .slept feverishly all night, for a broken pane admitted the cold breeze. (Dunfanaghy Sept. 5, 1835). "I am v·ery anxious to visit the fertile island of Tory, the inhabitants of which have no reli.gion, die as they come into the world, without the imposition of the hands of Bishop or Priest, and would be more rejoiced at se:ir:Ig one wrecked vessil than all the men of God in Christendum. So the Dunfanaghy men .assert, but it is not easy to believe them." Dunfanaghy, 8 Sept., [835. M.ac Sweeny na Doe and the MacSweenie.s of County Donegal. ".... A man, tan and stately, three women and some children accompanied by a hampered ass, some greyhounds and other dogs, and, I think a goa,t . . . That is MacSwyne na Doe and his family, the heir of Doe Castle and the Sinsear of the Cann Suivne, whe 'though he re1ains all the high notions of his forebearers, has been obliged to exchange the sword and the b1Ule axe for the budget and 1the soldering (saudering) iron, . .. the only badge of his nobility are now his greyhounds and do·gs which no "P€itty game keepers li.ave dared to deprive him for Captain Hart treats him with
J·.)URNAL OF' THE COUNTY DONEGAL I-HSTORICAL S0CIETY great respect and delights to hear him romancing al::out the daring achievements of Sir Malmurry Mac Swinnedo, from whom, in a direct line, he is the fif.th in descent. . . . . I asked the fisherman if I could call him back to converse with him about his family and he desired me to go down b his own house and that he would make signs to him to return. On entering the house my e:l:'es were as.tounded at the sight of ~ able~bodied men (with thighs as thick as those of two fat bullocks) playing with deafening sound, the one upon the bagpipes, the other upon the fiddle. On enquiry I learned that these were the two sons of Mc..cSweeny :who had been, for the last month employed in Captain Hart's house. When the father arrived at the door of the fisherman's cabi.n, he, (eguipped in his professional attire and carrying about him the implements thaot characterise his profession) looked in at us wi•th that good humour a nd ease which travelling gentlemen are masters of and with a countenance which' spoke his descent from a goodly race. 1 . . . . He then sat down and told me his story, the misfortunes of his family,how he came to be a tinker and lastly his pedig r e e up to Sir Malmurry MacSwyne-Doe, which runs thus: 1. Sir Malmurry, the father of 2 Donogh .:.vtore, father of 3 Morogh, father of 4 Donogh Oge, father of 5 Torlogh, father of 6 Emon. now the senior, aged 61. 7 Donogh 8 Torlogh. He refers to his relative, Morogh MacSwyne of Machairemore in Boylagh, for a confirmation of this pedigree, and asserts that every old IMilesian from Fan.aid to Ballyshannon acknowledge ·him to be the senior . He is in great expectation of 241. d~s:overing Horn Head because C:iptain Hart told his youngest son that the Mac Sweenies (Swynes) were unjustly deprived, of bat part of Doe." (Sept. 5th, i835). .. y ~sterday we removed from Dunfanag-hv . . . . on the :-oad we were overtaken by Donn2ll" Mac Torlogh, Mhic Owen Mhic Bri:in, Mhic Todogh, Mhi~ Shane, Mhic Donogh '.\fac Swyne, of the race of Godfrey Na Bunoige MacSwyne of Doe, who is mJst intimately acquainted with this coast and from whom we obtained a great deal of informa- ~ion." (Sept.- llth 1835). "To-morrow will be Sund_ay, rnd I expEct to be able to see some of the ~lacSweenie:;,. They are a most glorious race, warmhearted, humane, obliging, manly and honourable and easily dist · nguishable from t ·h e other t;ibes by the peculiar cast of their physiognomy." (Ballyconnell Sept. 13, 1835). lKilmacrenan) - "This was a theatre of great sectarian fury uatil the year 1'810 when Manus O'Donnell aided by a feiw huma!le Protestants succeeded in the restoration of peace." ·(Letterkenny 18th Sept., 1835). THE INAUGURATION STONE OF THE O'DONNELLS "One of the sappers (?) wrote in the Kilmacrenan Name Book t h a t the O'Dormells were inaugurated at the Hill of Doon but Manus (O'Donnell) says that the O'Donnells were crowned (elected) within the old church (of Kilmacrenan) and that the stone on which they stood and which had on it the impression of a foot and other ornaments was to· be seen there when he was a boy (circa 1775). Some suppose th<J.t the stone was stolen, and that it is ~t. preserved but Manus states that it was destroyed by a .Mr. MacSwine, who having changed his religion, became a violent hater of every~ thing Irish. He tore down a great part of the old Church to obtain
.J<JURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCI:ETY building materials and destroyed all the ornamented stones in the neighbourhood, . ... it is probable that the inauguration stone of the O'Donnells was originally placed on the Hill (recte Rock) of Doan, but the annals afford sufficient evidence· that it was in latter times, at least, in or at the Church of Kilmacrenan. Manus saw it under the NorthEast window of the old Church." (Sept. 18th, 1835). The town of Letterkenny is in the middle of Giensoolie, and yet the inhabitants deny that they are Glensooliemen, that appellation being applied to the wild yet distilling inhabitants of that Glen from Scarve .Sollus to the source of the river. ;Raphoe Sept. 30th, 1835). "Drumbo (Stra.norlai·) is now the Castle {as the peasants style it) of a Sir Edmond Hayes, a name which sounds plebeia1n on my ea:s, as his fortunes were not won by the long bow or the gallo,wglass axe, but by usury and prudence. This shows .what a wild sort of philosopher I am, to look with veneration at the fortune and castle of the ancient hangman or hanging man and cut throat. and to despise those acquired behind the counter by a patient a~nd perservering accumulation of pennies and white shillings. And why should not the physician who receives his fortune in isolated sovereign pieces be as profusely sumptuous and as open-handed as he who receives the golden shower at once-a shower iWhiCh he never eamed by the sword or dagger, but which flowed upon him from his sublimely rascally ancestors? One will answer that t·he money which one obtains in isolated small sums will be hoarded, because it is human nature to do so! No matter Irish property is now variously held-by night's service, by Knight's service, by fealty-<by soccage in capite et caetera, but we must respect all. The O'Muldories and O'Carnonans, men of ancient noble ,blood (if nobility consists, which l doubt, in robbing, burning, maiming, blinding, imprisonil1g for life. putting away wives and procuring others, building mOIIlasteries and making pure perpetual donations of land to the men of God, making pilgrimages to Loug·h Derg and Iona-and putHi1g on the habits of monks, and dying conquerers of the world and the devil) are now no more! Their very name is buried in the tomb of :non-existence. These were succeed by the O'Donnells-a proud and haughty race who disturbed the North and South for five successive centu:-ies. and by so doing, proved a most formiaable check to Terrni:nus and Ceres, and finally left their progeny a pennyless, p1oud race, stalking in the Glens of their ancient principality with p:·ide and wretchedness and deriving sustenance not from the rich fields of Raphoe but from the blue mountains and hungry glens of North and West Tirconnel l." (Sunday night, Ocitober 12th 1835). . . . Romantic Gleann Finne in the heart of a purely Irish country." We entered a Ch:apel Yard and soon found ourselves surrounded by a crowd of the old and long headed natives of Glen Fin- the r emnant of the men of Moy-ilha, who were driven to the mountains by the domina1nt party of J1ames 1 .... I am glad to say that the Irish of Glenfinn do not hate the descendants of their Scotch conquerors, though the :Scotch keep them at a most unnatural distance. A very respectable farmer, who lives close to the Church of Donoghmore, could not tell me the name of the Parish Priest-nor direct me to amy one individual of Irish descent who might be acquainted with the country! It is all the fault of the preachers·!" Ballybofey, Oct. 5th 1835. · "I had never thought there was any part of the Sacred ,Isle 242.
JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY so extensive . and desolately wild or so th1nly inhabited as the region tnrough which we have wande::ed since I wrote last. It is sublime'.y barren, and at night poeticaliy gloomy and horrible." ,'Dung1ow Oct. 12th 1835) "We veered a little to the S:iuth-West with an intention of visiting the townlands of Min A. Gl:obhann a n d Dumhaidh (Dooey) where the most intelligent natives of the parish ·reside . . . . on the road we met with c:oNds of women of the mountains loaded with stockings going t:i th3 stocking fair at Dunglow and who bore deep graven on \~lsages the effects of pove:iity and smoke. :(Glenties, Oct. 15th l •'.:35). "Glencolumbkille . ... what their forefathers thought, believed, said and did, a thousand years ago, they think, believe, say and do at p:esent. They are primitive beings who have hut few points of cemtact with the civilized world. They ·hate, as indeed. they should, the travelling preaclier. and cling to the notions of their fathers 'With dignified indepe:idence. Social immobility seems to be the dominant trait in the character of these people., who live in what may be callM the extreme brink of the world. far from the civilization of cities. and the lectures of pbilopher. (Oct. 20th, 1835). The inhabitants of these glens a nd mountains are fair specimens of what the Irish were in times of yore. They have no idea of comfort; the smoky cabin of the cottier is perhaps not much less comfortable than the slated house of the grocer or the leather-cutter; the wet potatoes that grow in the bolm or bog serves them for food, and if they can procure buttennilk for kitchen ·I as they call it) it is deemed a luxury; everything else (eggs, butter, <;>ats, pigs, sheep, etc.) is sold to make the ·rent or to buv tobacco. It is probable that their condition is worse now 243. '.~3.::1 in ancient Irish times before ·..:.:: introduction of peace and the t:::;t'.Lto; for then they had Litle or no rent to pay except a few methE:·:-s of butter in the ve.SJ.r; and the population bei:ng small they were well able to live un.::m t:J.e little corn produced by the rich spots in the mountains wnd glens. and upon the milk a·1d flesh of the cattle fed upon the mountains. adding now and the1n the creachs or preys car::ied of in t;iumoh from their lowland neighbours. Fish also was a ,,.reat source of support. (Oct. 25th. 1835). " H a v e reached Mount ~harles .... we shall have a f'ir here to-morrow and a pitched battle between the McG::oartvs and the O'Dohertys ... ... there bein,g no appearance of the batlle, the police flack~d from th~ir statio:is to prevent it. we left the town as soon as the ~bowers were over, and so lost a ~iew of the sounk of old time." /Oct. 20th. 1835). "A wrek at Pettigoe and another at Ballyshannon will now finish this dull county." (Donegal, Oct. 24.rth, 1·835). Though my letters are wild as the mountains i•n .which they were written. still I do feel myself very sober in thought, and exceedingly (excessive) in love with truth even to the prejudice of all national feelings. But when you consider the subject, the difficulty of my task-that of seeking through the dim vista of tradition some faint glimme::ings of truth-and the incoherency of rude tales which I have attempted to digest, you will, perhaps feel convinced that I could not be at all times serious or sober in expression. (Pettigoc, Oct. 28th, 1835).
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