Wild Atlantic Way 1/8 Inishowen and Fanad: Muff → Dunfanaghy

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Muff Garda Síochána Station

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Right here in Muff is a building that was once a constabulary barrack, built about 1880. It was a semi-detached five-bay two-storey structure, and it later served as a Garda Síochána station from about 1923 until 2006, when it was replaced by a new station in the village. It now stands unoccupied. The building still carries much of its early character, with its pitched natural slate roof, yellow brick chimneystacks, and timber sliding sash windows. It is one of the better surviving traditional buildings along the main street of Muff, and it makes a positive contribution to the streetscape of the village.

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Ritual site - holy well, Three Trees

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Right here at Three Trees in Donegal is a holy well dedicated to St. Patrick, with an ancient graveyard beside it. The graveyard is a subcircular area enclosed by the remains of an earthen bank, sitting in cultivated land that slopes east toward Lough Foyle. In 1936, Ó Muirgheasa described the well as still visited at all seasons by pilgrims, about a mile from Quigley's Point. He recorded it as Tobar Patrick, with the graveyard about 100 yards from the well.

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U.S. Naval Air Station Lough Foyle Ireland

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Somewhere around here, the United States Navy ran a seaplane station on Lough Foyle, commissioned on July 1, 1918, with Commander Henry D. Cooke as commanding officer. It stood near Quigley's Point in County Donegal, north of Derry. The station did not last long. It was disestablished in early 1919.

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Children's burial ground, Carrowkeel (Carrowkeel Ed)

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Right beside the road here is a children's burial ground. It's a slightly raised area, about 43.5 metres east to west and 13.5 metres north to south. It's very overgrown now and covered with field clearance stones.

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Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Carrowkeel (Carrowkeel Ed)

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Right here is the site of a megalithic tomb, though there is nothing left to see. On the first Ordnance Survey map in 1833 to 1834 it was called a cromlech, and described as the druidical remains of an altar. In 1835 it was pointed out to Lieutenant T.A. Larcom of the Ordnance Survey and to George Petrie, who headed the Survey's historical and antiquarian work, when they visited the area. Whatever stood here had been removed by 1848, when the map marked it simply as the site of a cromlech.

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Castle - unclassified, Whitecastle

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Right here at Whitecastle in Donegal is the site of a castle occupied in 1601 by Brian age McLaughlin, and in 1654-6 it belonged to Major George Carey, tenant to Lord Chichester, who had been granted the whole of Inishowen at the time of the Plantation. It was probably on or near the present Whitecastle house, built in the late 18th century. There is no visible trace of the castle today, apart from some possible fragments in the yard.

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Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Drung (Redcastle Ed)

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Right beside the road here in Drung is a megalithic tomb the maps called the Druid's Altar. Today a single upright stone stands, about 2 metres high, with a small mound of earth and stones at its base. At the start of the 20th century there were two upright stones, one about 0.9 metres and the other about 1.5 metres high. Lewis in 1837 wrote that the remains of an ancient cromlech stood not far from Drung, consisting of eight upright stones with others lying flat. The earliest OS map marked eight dots at the site, each possibly a stone. What kind of monument this was remains uncertain.

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Children's burial ground, Ballyargus

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Up ahead here at Ballyargus in Donegal, there's a children's burial ground within what was once a circular enclosure. The earthen bank survives on a rock base, up to 0.7 metres high on one side, with faint traces on the other. Quarrying of the rock outcrop nearby has given the appearance of a defensive ditch. Small stones in the area to the north are believed to be grave markers. The site sits in a grazing field sloping down toward the Drung river, with views over Lough Foyle.

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Burial ground, Drung (Redcastle Ed)

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Here at Drung in Donegal, a burial ground now stands where a ringfort once was. The old maps marked it as a fort, but graveyard use has totally obliterated it. Only a curving outline to the north, east and south survives to hint at the ringfort. It sits on a plateau overlooking Lough Foyle, with a steep rise behind it.

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Castle - unclassified, Carrickmaquigley

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Here's the site of Red Castle, right beside the road. In 1601 Hugh Carrogh McLaughlin lived here, and English forces captured it during the 1608 rebellion. It was granted to Chichester, then let to Sir Richard Hansard and later Sir George Carey. It was probably a ruin by 1665 and had been entirely demolished more than a century and a half ago. It stood on a boss of rock, about 4.5 metres high.

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Cooly Graveyard

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Cooly Graveyard is right here, beside the road. The graveyard was laid out around 1700 on a rectangular plan, and the earliest inscribed gravestone dates from 1702, though there are also older uninscribed markers from the late medieval period. Inside the walls are the remains of two early churches. One served as the medieval parish church. The other was built in 1622 and stayed in use until it was destroyed in 1688. There is also a single-chambered mortuary house, sometimes called a skull house, with a corbelled stone roof. Outside the entrance stands Cooly Cross, a tall plain ringed high cross. The gravestones range from simple uninscribed markers to eighteenth and nineteenth century inscribed headstones and table tombs, and they give a sense of how burial customs changed in this part of Donegal over time.

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Moville as great artery of emigration

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Coming up through Moville in Donegal, you are passing through what the book calls one of the two great open arteries of Ireland. The great liners bound from Liverpool to Canada and the United States made this their point of call. It served as the focus of emigration for the Protestant North, just as Queenstown did for the Catholic South and West. The writer saw these places as channels by which, in their words, "the strength and life of Ireland is continually passing away to be transfused into the veins of other lands."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 136 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Ballynally

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Right here is St. Columkille's well, though there is not much to see now. It has become a modernised water spout. In 1936 Ó Muirgheasa recorded it as a St. Colmcille's well on the shore at Moville.

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Burial ground, Bredagh Glen

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Right here in Bredagh Glen is a burial ground, a rough overgrown piece of ground about 2 metres by 6 metres. It's known locally as a burial place, recorded by M.R. Colhoun. There's no further story attached to it.

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Burial ground, Moneydarragh

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Right here at Moneydarragh in Donegal is a burial ground. The record calls it a Caldragh on the 6-inch map. It is a subcircular raised area, 10 metres across, strewn with loose stones, sitting in a curve of the river among well cultivated land.

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Burial ground, Dristernan

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Right beside the road here in Dristernan, Donegal, there was a burial ground known as Killycooley. Bones came up when the road was widened, but there is nothing to see now. The field is well cultivated and slopes south over the Gleneely River.

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Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Laraghirril

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Right here at Laraghirril in Donegal is a court tomb standing on Black Hill, on good farmland between Trawbreaga Bay and Tremone Bay at the north end of the Inishowen peninsula. The gallery inside the low grass-grown mound is about 8.5 metres long and divided into two chambers, entered from the east-south-east through doubled jambs. A writer in 1867 recorded that a circle of stones about 64 metres around once enclosed the gallery, but there is no trace of it now. The site was once known as the bed of Diarmuid and Gráinne, a name linked to the old tale of the fleeing lovers. The tomb occupies a prominent position and commands good views of the district, with the sea visible to the north.

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The Corpse-Roasters of Inishowen

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Close to Culdaff, the tinker Pat Diver, refused lodging on the Moville and Greencastle road, sheltered in a barn where four immensely tall men dragged in a corpse and roasted it on a fire. They forced him to turn it. "If you let him burn you'll be tied up there and roasted in his place," they told him.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888), ed. W. B. Yeats, Project Gutenberg #33887, Chapter 23 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Culdaff

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Right beside the road here in Culdaff, there was once a holy well known as Turas Boden. The well itself no longer survives, though three steps and a tank now mark the spot where it stood beside the Culdaff River. It was dedicated to St. Buadan, whose feast day is locally remembered as the 22nd of July. A turas, a ritual pilgrimage, once took place at this well but no longer does. Ó Muirgheasa described it in 1936, noting that St. Buadan appears in all the martyrologies under that date as Mo Biu, or Biteus. The glosses state he was abbot of Inis Cuscraigh, in Ferann Duin, and the son of Comgall.

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Penal Mass station, Muff (Culdaff Ed)

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Here, right beside the road, is a Penal Mass station in Muff, one of six altars used for the celebration of mass. These altars don't appear on the 1834 map, but were first marked on the 1848 revision.

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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Templemoyle

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Right here in Templemoyle is a portal tomb, sitting prominently on a boggy ridge with rock outcrops. The sea inlet of Trawbreaga Bay is visible about 4km to the west. The tomb is a small chamber, at least 1.8 metres long and 1 metre wide at the rear, facing south-east. Its front has collapsed. A backstone and two opposed sidestones are still in place. A displaced roofstone, 2.3 metres long and narrowing from 2 metres to 1.3 metres wide, rests with its front end on the ground, supported on the southern sidestone and a small stone on the northern one. A prostrate stone in front of the southern sidestone appears to be a displaced portal-stone, measuring 2 metres by 0.65 metres by 0.2 metres thick. An OS Revision Name Book from 1848 described it as 'an upright stone 4 feet [about 1.2 metres] high which appears to have originally supported the covering stone but having leaned a little toward the south by some unknown cause leaves one end of the covering stone resting on the ground'. That same 1848 record notes the east end of the chamber, now open, was then closed by a slab, possibly a doorstone or sillstone. Some loose stones lie in the chamber, and a slightly raised grassy patch about 5 metres alongside the southern sidestone may be the remains of an enclosing mound. The backstone is gabled in profile and 0.6 metres high, shorter than the sidestones. The southern sidestone is 0.9 metres high and the northern one 1.05 metres in sloping height.

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Mass-rock, Templemoyle

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Right here at Templemoyle in Donegal is the Mass-rock, a roughly square boulder inside a stone-walled enclosure in the graveyard. A small stone cross stands beside it. A holy well and a pillar stone dedicated to St. Adomnán once stood nearby, but they are now destroyed.

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Ritual site - holy well, Templemoyle

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There's a holy well right here at Templemoyle. A natural spring sits at the base of a whitethorn tree, enclosed by drystone. It's no longer venerated and there are no votive offerings to be seen. According to Bonner, there were two holy wells on this road between Culdaff and Malin, but the second one could not be found.

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Malin Hall, most northerly gentleman's residence

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Coming up through Malin, you pass Malin Hall, the most northerly gentleman's residence in Ireland. It's a very pretty, well-kept place, on the left as you turn out of the little town toward Malin Head. The road here follows the telegraph over level ground for the first three miles from Carndonagh.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 134 · source

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Malin Hall

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Right beside the road here is the private graveyard of Malin Hall, built by the Harvey family for their estate. The burials lie in a semi-subterranean vault, partially built into the side of a hillock at the north end of the enclosure. The earliest burial is dated 1820, but the graveyard does not appear on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of 1837, which suggests it was laid out later and that earlier burials were re-interred here, probably from the nearby parish church in Malin. The last person buried here appears to be Elizabeth Lyne, dated 1888. Private family graveyards were uncommon but not unknown on larger country estates. This one sits in a wooded area and forms part of a group of structures associated with the former Malin Hall estate.

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Unknown wreck, Five Fingers Strand

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Right here at Five Fingers Strand, Malin Head, there's a wooden wreck in the intertidal zone. It runs 45 metres from bow to stern, with a maximum width of 9.68 metres. No more is recorded about it.

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Children's burial ground, Ardmalin

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Right here at Ardmalin in Donegal is a children's burial ground, a slightly raised area between a pebble and a sand beach. It once had grave markers, but the site has been destroyed by sand quarrying. Nothing of the markers survives.

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Malin Signal Tower

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Right here at Malin Head is a freestanding three-storey signal tower on a square plan, built about 1805. It is one of upwards of eighty such towers built along the west, south, south-east and north-west coastlines of Ireland by British authorities between 1804 and 1806, in reaction to French invasion attempts in the 1790s, particularly the 1798 French landing at Killala in County Mayo. A signal lieutenant was appointed here in February 1806. The towers worked on a ball and flag system, hoisting messages on a fifty-foot mast on the seaward side so the next tower could see them and pass them on. After Nelson's victory over the French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the invasion threat diminished, and by 1809 the signal towers along the Irish coastline were abandoned. The tower later served as a weather station in the second half of the nineteenth century. About 1890 it became a signal tower for Lloyds of London, passing information on ships arriving across the Atlantic from a semaphore station on the offshore island of Inishtrahull, and on to London. In 1901 Guglielmo Marconi established a radio signal station adjacent to the tower, and in 1902 sent the first commercial radio message from Malin Head to the ship S.S. Lake Ontario. The station was involved in sea trials of the radio system on the RMS Titanic in April 1912. The tower was probably rendered around 1900. It is now out of use and derelict, its flat roof collapsed, its windows and doorway blocked with modern blockwork.

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Ritual site - holy well, Drumaville (Culdaff Ed)

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Right here at Drumaville, on the foreshore, are three fresh-water springs defined by circles of stones in the mud. In 1936 Ó Muirgheasa called them Cathal Dubh's three boiling wells at Strabreagy. At full tide the sea covers them, but a turus used to be made there. Cathal Dubh was a hermit, and his cell could still be seen at Goorey, about two miles from Malin on the road to Lagg.

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The Donagh Bell Found Hidden at Cean-na-Clug, Priestown

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Coming up along Carndonagh now. This is the town where the Donagh bell surfaced, after being lost for generations. The bell was presented to the Royal Irish Academy by John Connellan Deane, who told the story in a letter read before the Academy. Deane had been working in Carndonagh under the temporary relief act. A pawnbroker living there offered him the bell for sale while he was engaged in official business in the town. The pawnbroker had controlled the bell for a great number of years. The bell was said to have been found in the townland of Cean-na-Clug, meaning the head of the bell, which takes its name from the bell itself. It had been hidden away under the soil there, and the finder was the Reverend Michael McColgan. From Father McColgan's time it stayed with the McColgan family of Priestown. The late Philip McColgan of Priestown was fourth in descent from a nephew of the finder. But how it found its way into the pawnbroker's hands at Carndonagh was never clearly discovered.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 156 · source

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Colgan's birthplace at Priestown near Carndonagh

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As the road comes through Carndonagh, you are passing near where John Colgan was born. His birthplace was at Priestown, on the left bank of the Donagh river, adjoining the site of Domnach-mor-muighe-Tochair, in Inis-Owen. The land all around is bold and open. From a hill crest nearby, the northern half of the promontory lies spread out like a map. Below sits Carndonagh, a white speck beyond a row of lakes, the Mintiagh Loughs, tiny mirrors set in the hill flank. On either side run the jagged lines of Lough Foyle and Lough Swilly, varied with peaked headlands and jutting points and shelving bays scooped out of the living rock. Away to the north, the bluffs of Malin Head loom through the mist, the extreme limit of Ireland. When the mists clear, the Atlantic opens up, dotted with fairy islets, marked with a line of white where it seethes and moans and lashes without ceasing against the foot of the beetling cliffs. Someone looking out over all this called it wild, desolate, and weirdly fair. That wildness and that fairness are the country Colgan grew up in, the country that is said to have shaped his later work. He went on to write on the topography and history of Donegal, and the peninsula's stark layout stretched before him here reads like the very thing a future historian of place would first learn to read. Doreen spoke truly, for Inis-Owen is weirdly fair.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 216 · source

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Chalice from Convent of Donegal preserved at Carndonagh

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As you pass through Carndonagh, a silver chalice once belonging to the Convent of Donegal was preserved in the convent here. About 1865 it was in the possession of the Reverend P. Magee of Strabane, having passed earlier through the hands of the Reverend Bernard McKenna of Leckpatrick and his brother the Reverend John McKenna of Maghera. Its inscription reads, "Pray for Edmd. Bourke, Parish Priest, of Killereran, County Galway, and family, who bought me for ye hour, of God, and use of ye Convt. of Dunegall."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 64 · source

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Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Churchland Quarters

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Right here at Churchland Quarters in Donegal is the site of an unclassified megalithic tomb, listed as a multiple-chambered cairn or dolmen. In 1848 the OS surveyor described it as an old bed like those called Dermot and Grania's Bed, and said Saint Patrick used it as a resting place when he came to build a church at Donagh. The locality still calls it Leaba Phádraig, even those who don't speak Irish. The 17th-century writer John Colgan described it as the penitential bed of St. Patrick surrounded by polished stones. The stones that formed the bed had been removed by 1848, but the site was still pointed out. A patch of bare earth here is still respected as a source of cures. The nature of the site remains uncertain.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG011-061---- · source

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Children's burial ground, Carndoagh

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Right here at Carndoagh in Donegal is a children's burial ground. It's a small subcircular space, about 5 and a half metres across, enclosed by a single course of large stones, sitting on a natural mound. The first Ordnance Survey map called it a fort, later editions called it a children's burial ground. It might be a reused cashel, though it seems very small for one.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG011-007---- · source

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Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Rashenny

What it said · 167 of 167 words

Right here at Rashenny in Donegal is a megalithic tomb, now barely surviving. Two standing stones face each other, all that remains of what may have been a gallery. A prostrate slab lies south of each one. A drop in the ground nearby may be the edge of an old enclosing mound. In 1848 an Ordnance Survey officer recorded the tomb in far better shape. He wrote that the stones appeared to be the remains of one of those remarkable antiquities called Labby Dermot and Grania. He counted four upright stones on the west side, standing 3 to 4 feet high, and two at the south end up to 5 feet tall, with one slab lying prostrate, 6 feet long and 4 feet broad. The east side, he said, was altogether destroyed. The total length he gave was 15 feet. Today even less holds together. The eastern orthostat still stands 1.3 metres high, while the western one has shifted outward and would reach 0.85 metres if upright.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG011-005001- · source

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Drowning of Clonmany Fishermen in Binion Bay Storm

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As you pass through Clonmany in Donegal, you are in a place remembered for a sudden storm that swept over Binion Bay. A small fishing boat that had set out in the morning with Clonmany's seamen was overwhelmed by the gale, and every man aboard sank beneath the waves. The poem that tells their fate says they had "no humble cross in hallowed spot" to mark their grave. Their shroud was the seaweed, their tomb the ocean sand, and their epitaph was the tale itself, carried on the land.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 169 · source

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Surviving Celtic storytelling tradition in Clonmany and Malin

What it said · 111 of 111 words

As the road takes you through Clonmany, Celtic verse stayed alive among the people. During the first half of the nineteenth century, poetical fragments were found here and in Malin, in Inis-Owen. People frequently repeated them. Mountain herds sang these national stanzas, a kind similar to the celebrated Hans des Vaches. Sometimes they were recited as question and answer, after the manner of the Ossianic poems. William Lanninie later collected stories in Tirconnell, around Malinmore in Glencolumbkille. He took down phonetically about 15 different stories from Patrick Meenahan, and from several other persons in the district he was furnished with about 10 more, as well as one at Nairn.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 132 · source

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Priest surrounded by fairies between Clonmany and Ballyliffan

What it said · 176 of 176 words

Up ahead is Clonmany, a town in Inishowen in Donegal. In this part of Ireland, the fairy was never seen as Christian. The people regarded him as a fallen angel, and no Church held out to him the hope of salvation. The story goes that a priest was walking between Clonmany and Ballyliffan when he was surrounded by the wee folk. They asked him anxiously whether they could be saved. He threw his book towards them and bade them catch it, and he would give them an answer. But at the sight of the breviary they scattered and fled. The Protestant Bible and hymn-book were equally dreaded by them, and used as a spell against their influence. In the north of Antrim it was told that a woman was nearly carried off by the fairies because her friends had omitted to leave these books beside her. Her husband, sleeping by the fire, awoke in time to save her. A pair of scissors, a darning-needle, or any piece of iron would have served as a charm. So would the husband's trousers, thrown across the bed.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Ulster Folklore (1913), Elizabeth Andrews, Project Gutenberg #37187, Chapter 6 · source

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The Pedlar's Dream of Treasure at Kinnagoe

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Somewhere around here, a story was told that belongs to a family of legends found across England, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, and Norway. An elderly woman told the folklorist that at Kinnagoe, a small hamlet about three miles from Buncrana, there lived a man whose name she believed was Doherty. He dreamt one night that on London Bridge he should hear of a treasure. He set out at once for London. When he came there he walked up and down the bridge until he was wearied. At last a man accosted him and asked him why he loitered there. Doherty told his dream, upon which the other said, "Ah, man! Do you believe in drames? Why, I dreamt the other night that at a place called Kinnagoe a pot of gold is buried. Would I go to look for it? I might loss my time if I paid attention to drames." Doherty answered, "That's true," and hurried home. He found the pot of gold, bought houses and land, and became a wealthy man. The folklorist thought the mention of London Bridge pointed to the story being brought over by English settlers. Sir G. Laurence Gomme had collected several variants of the Pedlar of Swaffham tale. The earliest version came from the manuscripts of Sir Roger Twysden, who obtained it from Sir William Dugdale of Blyth Hall in Warwickshire, in a letter dated January 29, 1652. Sir William said it was the tradition of the inhabitants, as it was told him there.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Ulster Folklore (1913), Elizabeth Andrews, Project Gutenberg #37187, Chapter 8 · source

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Burial ground, Kinnagoe

What it said · 39 of 39 words

Right beside the road here at Kinnagoe in Donegal, local tradition claims this spot as a burial ground. There are no surface features to see today. It sits in a reclaimed field in a curve of the Owenboy river.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG029-006---- · source

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Bishop Maginn's death and burial at Cockhill church, Buncrana

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As you pass through Cockhill, this is where Dr Maginn lies buried. He was consecrated in the Cathedral Waterside on 18 January 1846 and died on 17 January 1849, a short but eventful episcopal career. He was born on 16 December 1802, and his remains rest in the graveyard adjoining Cockhill church near Buncrana, among the mountains and people of Inis-Owen, both of which he loved so well. A wooden substitute for a tomb marks the spot, bearing his title as Bishop of Orthosia and Apostolic Administrator of Derry.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 112 · source

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Marriage banquet at Buncrana leads to capture of Hart, Governor of Culmore

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As you pass through Buncrana, in Donegal, you are passing through the place where a marriage banquet in 1608 set off O'Doherty's revolt. O'Doherty, chieftain of Inishowen, had received a blow from the hand of Paulet, the second governor of Derry. Under the irritating taunts of Paulet and the crafty promptings of Neale Garve, he burned to wash away the insult with the blood of his enemy. The marriage banquet here at Buncrana furnished the opportunity. Hart, the Governor of Culmore, was made prisoner. O'Doherty led his captive to the gate of the fortress. Hart's wife was forced to choose between the surrender of the place and the death of her husband. Her tears and entreaties prevailed on the pity or cowardice of the garrison, and Culmore supplied O'Doherty with arms and ammunition. Derry and its castle then submitted to his power, and Paulet and five others fell as the victims of revenge. The Council strained every nerve to suppress the insurrection before O'Doherty received aid. The two first attempts ended in the discomfiture of the royalists, who lost 300 or 400 men. On the approach of Wingfield, marshall of the camp, O'Doherty dismantled the two fortresses and retired. For two months he kept his enemies at bay, but one morning, exposing himself incautiously, he was slain by a random shot.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala · source

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Dr Maginn's Cottage at Buncrana, a hub for Catholic Ireland

What it said · 104 of 104 words

As you pass through Buncrana, you are near the Cottage where Dr Maginn lived as parish priest of the united parishes of Upper and Lower Fahan. It became a gathering place for Catholic people of Inis-Owen and the North, compared in its time to Holland House in London for English Whig politicians. Irish workers came to consult Dr Maginn and left laden with facts and ideas for the country's benefit. William Smith O'Brien, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, and reputedly Charles Gavan Duffy were visitors. Among those locally associated with Dr Maginn were the Reverend Philip Devlin, Vicar-General of the diocese, and the Reverend William Hegarty.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 111 · source

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Herd-boy silenced after entering fairy dwelling near Buncrana

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Coming through Buncrana now, in Donegal. A story was told here about a little herd-boy who paid dearly for entering one of the fairies' dwellings. The teller had heard several similar stories, and had not found that any evil consequences were supposed to follow from partaking of food brought by the fairies. Men had been carried off by them, had heard their beautiful music, seen them dancing, witnessed a fairy battle, all without bringing any misfortune on themselves. But this herd-boy's case was different. He was climbing among the rocks, and he saw a cleft. Creeping through it, he came to where a fairy woman was spinning, with her weans, her children, around her. His sister missed him, and after searching for a time, she too came to the cleft. Looking down, she saw her brother, and called to him to come out. He came, but was never able to speak again. In another case, deafness followed intercourse with the fairies. An elderly man at Maghera, County Down, told the collector that his brother, when four or five years old, went out with his father. The child lay down on the grass. After a while the father heard a great noise, and looking up, saw little men about two feet in height dancing round his son. He called to them to be gone, and they ran towards a fort and disappeared. The child became deaf, and did not recover his hearing for ten years. He died at the age of seventeen.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Ulster Folklore (1913), Elizabeth Andrews, Project Gutenberg #37187, Chapter 2 · source

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Raid burns town and castle of Buncrana during O'Doherty's revolt, 1608

What it said · 38 of 38 words

You're passing through Buncrana now. In 1608, during O'Doherty's revolt, 12 or 13 raiders rode here and burned the town. The inhabitants fled, and seven or eight swordsmen were killed. The castle walls remained standing after the fire.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 220 · source

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Buncrana Castle: ruins and 1716 rebuilding by Sir John Vaughan

What it said · 123 of 123 words

As you pass through Buncrana, you are near a castle with two chapters. All that remains of the ancient O'Doherty stronghold is about 10 feet of the base of what was originally a square tower or keep. Around 1607, O'Doherty was enlarging a building on this site, at the very time Paulet, Montgomery, and Chichester wanted his castles and his cantred of Inis-Owen for themselves. During O'Doherty's revolt, a raid swept through Inis-Owen, and an account by Sir Thomas Kidgeway tells how Buncrana fared at the hands of a band of warriors. The castle you see today was constructed by Sir John Vaughan in 1716, described in a photograph as a modern house, and it doubtless occupies the site of that earlier building.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 220 · source

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murder of Andrew Allen

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Somewhere around here, on the 9th of February 2012, a young man named Andrew Allen was shot dead by three masked gunmen at about 9:20 p.m. He was from Derry, one of over 30 people forced from their homes by a vigilante group called Republican Action Against Drugs, or RAAD, after his name appeared in a threat sent to a community centre in the Waterside area of Derry, and he had moved to Ludden outside Buncrana to live with his partner and her two children, having been told weeks earlier he was no longer under threat. RAAD claimed responsibility for his death on 22 February, calling him a drug dealer, which his family denied, though his partner said he had been involved in drugs previously but had stopped since at least 2010, and a car believed used in the murder was found burning near Fahan, three miles away. Friends and family believed the Real IRA was more likely responsible based on the method of the killing, and both groups later merged to form the New IRA in July 2012, while the Derry priest Fr Michael Canny said as many as 36 or 37 people had been exiled from the Waterside and Cityside areas, with Allen the first of those exiles to be killed. As of 2023, six people had been arrested and questioned, but the killer has not been found.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), en.wikipedia.org: Murder of Andrew Allen · source

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The murder of Dr. Hamilton and Mrs Waller near Fahan

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You are coming through Fahan, in Donegal. In 1797 this place was the scene of a notorious double murder. Dr Hamilton was visiting at the rectory of Sharon, the home of Mr and Mrs Waller. He was sitting with the family when several shots were fired in upon them. The house was broken open. Mrs Waller tried to protect her helpless husband, covering him with her body, and was murdered. Hamilton, from the natural love of life, had taken refuge in the lower apartments. They forced him from there. As he tried to hold the door, they held fire under his hand until he quit his hold. They dragged him a few yards from the house and murdered him, in the words of the report, in the most inhuman and barbarous manner. The assassins retired unmolested and undiscovered. None were ever brought to justice, though popular tradition among both Catholics and Protestants says misfortune dogged their footsteps and each came to an untimely end. Hamilton's body remained exposed through the night, removed only the following morning, taken to Londonderry and buried in the Cathedral graveyard. His name is on the family tombstone there, and in 1890 his descendants erected a tablet to his memory in the chancel.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Ulster Folklore (1913), Elizabeth Andrews, Project Gutenberg #37187, Chapter 11 · source

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St. Mura's convent founded at Fahan

What it said · 105 of 105 words

Up ahead the road passes through Fahan, in Donegal, where St. Mura founded a convent in the sixth century. It stood in a vale known as the Bosom of Fahan, in Inis-Owen, about eight miles north of Derry. The names of its abbots are recorded with fair regularity from 657 until 1098, which is remarkable given that the convent sat on a branch-arm of Lough Swilly and was within easy reach by sea for disturbance or pillage. The place was frequently mentioned in Irish history, associated with St. Mura or with his successors as abbots. Among those distinguished successors was one known as the Canonist.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 207 · source

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Death of Fothadh na Canoine of Fahan recorded

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Coming up through Fahan in Donegal. A list of abbots of Fahan-Mura, given by Dr. Reeves, records that in 818 Fothadh of Fothain died. This is thought to be the celebrated Fothadh na Canoine, the Canonist, mentioned by the Four Masters and the Annals of Ulster. The Four Masters tell the story. The clergy complained to King Aedh Oirnie that it was a grievance for them to go on any hosting or fighting expedition. The king said he would abide by the award of Fothadh na Canoine. On that occasion Fothadh of Fahan-Mura passed the decision exempting the clergy of Ireland for ever from expeditions and hostings, meaning from going in the retinue of any king, chief, or governor in fighting array, as had frequently been the case before. O'Donovan notes that Colgan's Acta Sanctorum gives further account of this writer.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 207 · source

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Castle - tower house, An Machaire Beag (Tc Fathain)

What it said · 133 of 205 words

Right here beside the road is the site of Fahan Castle. It was mentioned in a grant to Sir John O'Doherty and was partially dismantled in 1600. It seems to have been of little importance. In 1601 the castle was described in these words: "Over aginst the Ench in O'Dogherty's country is a castle and a church, called the Fanne, but broken down since our arrival. Here dwells the Bishop O'Galthar." That same year the building was described as a square tower surrounded by a circular bawn. In 1939 Davies and Swan suggested the castle site may have been in a field close to Castletown Cottage. Castletown House, 400 metres south of Castletown Cottage, is the more likely location. Around 40 years ago the landowner, making an addition to Castletown House, discovered a vault or arches adjoining the north wall of the house. On knocking these down, the head of a single-light ogee-headed window was found among the rubble. It is partly damaged and has sunken spandrels. The whole is punch dressed in 16th century fashion. It is chamfered at the rear and has a bar hole in the top of the block. It may have been re-used as a door jamb. This medieval architectural fragment may have formed part of a window belonging to the castle of Fahan. The vaults or arches could have been the remains of the barrel-vaulted roof over the ground floor of the castle. In 2007 Richard Crumlish carried out pre-development testing here, digging five trenches ahead of a planning application for a cow house, milking parlour and manure separator. The testing revealed natural undisturbed stratigraphy and nothing of archaeological significance.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG038-023---- · source

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Niel Garv takes refuge at Magherabeg abbey

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Somewhere around here, in 1600 to 1601, the traitor Niel Garv O'Donnell took refuge at the smaller abbey of Magherabeg. His angry kinsmen had driven him forth from Donegal Abbey, where he had occupied it for a brief space. He fled a few miles away, and here he would almost certainly have been destroyed, had Red Hugh not been summoned to join the Spanish force at Kinsale. Reluctantly Red Hugh left the traitor behind, having first destroyed his castle in Donegal that it might not fall into the hands of his enemies and be a point of vantage to them. With his little army he made his way southward with a speed and good order truly astonishing, for where the leader is trustworthy the followers will go with him to death itself. Near Kinsale he found his father-in-law eagerly awaiting his presence. That prudent chief had scarcely been able to restrain the boastful Spanish commander from making a premature attack upon the English forces, which were strongly posted and ready to receive the onset. It may be, too, that he had been boasting to his ally of the valour and wise conduct of his son-in-law in terms not entirely flattering to that worthy or to his nation. At all events, the Spaniard goaded Red Hugh into action by his taunts, against the advice of O'Neil, while he himself proved of little use when the time came to fight.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Haunts of the eagle : man and wild nature in Donegal (1924), Fox, Arthur William, Internet Archive hauntsofeagleman00foxa, Chapter 115 · source

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O'Doherty castles around Lough Swilly

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You're passing through Burt parish, where old O'Doherty castles once guarded the waters of Lough Swilly. At Buncrana and on Inch Island their castles still stand. But the one to remember is Birt Castle, on a bare hilltop overlooking the arm of the lough that runs toward Letterkenny. In 1608, after a man named Paulet struck Sir Cahir O'Doherty, he withdrew here in fury and plotted what became his final, fatal rising. That rising gave his fosterers, the McDevitts, a nickname they are said to keep to this day: the Bum-Derrys.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 116 · source

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Sir Cahir O'Dogherty's castle at Burt

What it said · 201 of 201 words

You're coming through the parish of Burt, in Donegal, along the shore of Lough Swilly. Sir Cahir O'Dogherty's castle still stands here, south of Inch Island, looking over the water. He was chief of Inishowen, a district Red Hugh O'Donnell claimed as his own. When Cahir's father died, Red Hugh seized the boy and tried to have Cahir's uncle Phelim proclaimed instead. But Cahir's fosterers, the McDevitts of Burt, appealed to Sir Henry Docwra, who held the forts of Culmore and Derry. Docwra established Cahir as chief and raised the young man under his own eye in all courtly and warlike exercises, shaping him as a supporter of the English. Cahir fought for his allies and was knighted. In 1607 he sat as foreman of the jury that declared the fleeing Earls traitors and their lands forfeit. Then Docwra was replaced by Sir Henry Paulet, who mistrusted Cahir, and after quarrels struck him. Cahir went back to his castle here, enraged, and plotted revenge with the McDevitts. In April 1608 he marched out, took Culmore Fort, sacked and burnt Derry, and Paulet paid with his life. He pressed on to Lifford but failed to take it and withdrew into Glen Yeagh.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 73 · source

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Castle - unclassified, Castleforward Demesne

What it said · 90 of 90 words

Right here is the site of Culmacatraine Castle. It belonged to the O'Dohertys in 1440, was dismantled in 1529, and then occupied by O'Donnell. It was in poor condition in 1600, repaired the following year, and an English force garrisoned it in 1610. It was probably demolished in the 17th century. The castle likely stood on or near the site of the 18th-century Castleforward House. Of the stones once noted here, only one was found in a wall beside the house. The house itself has been razed to the ground.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG047-015---- · source

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Castle - motte, Castleforward Demesne

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Right here at Castleforward Demesne in Donegal, you have a modified natural mound about 27 metres across and roughly 4 metres high, encircled for the most part by a fosse. The first Ordnance Survey map marked it as a fort. There are no visible structures on the tree-covered mound today, but this site or one close by is usually identified as the location of Culmacatreine, a small castle or tower house shown on a map of about 1600. No trace of that castle survives. The mound sits on a slight rise overlooking low-lying reclaimed land that was marshy and possibly tidal before the seventeenth century.

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Barach's mansion on the shore of Moyle

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Somewhere close to Moyle, Barach had his mansion on the shore. In the legend of the Sons of Usnach, King Conor wanted the exiles brought back from Alba, and he chose Fergus to fetch them. Conor told Fergus to bring them to this mansion and send them on to Eman as soon as they arrived. But Conor had a plan. He went to Barach and asked whether he had a feast ready. Barach said he did, but could not bring it to Eman. So Conor told him to offer it to Fergus instead, when he returned from Alba, because Fergus was under gesa never to refuse a feast. The trick was simple. Fergus had sworn never to turn down a feast, and Conor used that vow to delay him, leaving the sons of Usnach to travel on without Fergus's protection. Before all this, Conor had tested three men. He asked Conall Carnach what he would do if the sons of Usnach were slain after coming under his warranty. Conall said he would inflict death on every Ultonian who had part in it. Conor told him he was no friend of his. He asked Cuchullan the same. Cuchullan pledged he would slay every man of Ulster his hands could reach. Conor said he was no friend either. Then he drew Fergus apart, and Fergus said no man in Ulster should injure them but his life should pay for it, save only Conor himself. It was Fergus Conor sent.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 167 · source

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Burial ground, Ardnaditian

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Right here at Ardnaditian in Donegal is a site known locally as the burial ground. It's a low mound, almost natural looking, on a slope running down to Lough Swilly.

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RIC barracks, Manorcunningham

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Right here beside the road is a two-storey house built around 1800, later used as a Royal Irish Constabulary barracks from about 1840 until 1920. It was extended to the north sometime between 1860 and 1903, and a Francis Sherridan was the constable here in 1881. The building kept its original form even after conversion to barracks use, with its natural slate roof and sliding sash windows. It is out of use now, but it stands as part of the social history of Manorcunningham.

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Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Errity

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Right here at Errity in Donegal there was once a megalithic tomb, though nothing remains of it now. It was called the Giant's Grave on the Ordnance Survey map, and Thomas Fagan described it as a pagan sepulture. He said it sat on a raised mound about 12 metres square, with an enclosure on top, 20 feet long and 7 to 9 feet wide, built of large stone blocks and divided into separate graves. By his time it was already much deranged, with many stones missing or fallen. When Kinahan visited in the 1880s he found the structure had been broken up and removed shortly before his arrival. The only possible surviving fragment is a single slab, about a metre across, now built into a fence nearby. Fagan's account may describe a megalithic tomb, but without corroboration it cannot be confirmed as one.

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Tromra Castle, O'Brien's Clare residence

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Somewhere close to Trimragh is Tromra Castle, where Dermod More O'Brien, grandson of Soan Tiege, lived in 1277. The foreign trade of Galway had improved after fortifications were erected, and the merchants paid him an annual tribute of twelve tuns of wine to protect their harbour and trade from pirates and privateers.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the town and county of the town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time (vol. n/a) (1926), Hardiman, James, Internet Archive historyoftowncouhard · source

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Battle of Farsetmore

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Somewhere around here, on the 8th of May 1567, the O'Neills and the O'Donnells met in battle. Shane O'Neill, chief of the O'Neills, was defeated by Hugh O'Donnell, and the O'Donnells broke free from O'Neill's aim to rule Ulster as its king.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), en.wikipedia.org: Battle of Farsetmore · source

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Wolfe Tone captured after naval battle off the Rosses

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As you pass through Letterkenny, you are in the town where Wolfe Tone was recognised after his capture in 1798. The French ship Hoche, carrying Tone, fought four English vessels off the Rosses until she was reduced to a wreck and struck her colours at 11.20 in the morning. The prisoners were landed at Rathmullen or Buncrana, and Tone, wearing his French uniform, passed among them unnoticed until a man who had been at college with him picked him out here in Letterkenny. The French officers had begged Tone to transfer to the Biche schooner, which had the best chance of escape, because if he were taken his fate would be certain execution. He refused to leave while the French fought for his country, and commanded a battery in the action. Taken to Dublin, he was tried by court martial and defended himself, the book says, with dignity and courage. Sentenced to be hanged, he pleaded for the right due to the uniform he wore as a general in the French army, but the court refused to treat him as an honourable enemy and shoot him. Tone cut his throat in prison with a pen-knife. He was still alive when found, and the authorities had the wound tied up so as to prolong life a few hours and proposed to proceed to hang him. Curran stopped this by obtaining a writ of habeas corpus from the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Kilwarden. The book calls it the lamentable but not ignominious end of a formidable enemy to English rule in Ireland.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 106 · source

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Wolfe Tone Recognised at Letterkenny Breakfast

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As you come through Letterkenny, this is where Theobald Wolfe Tone came ashore in 1798, a prisoner among the officers taken aboard the Hoche. He had passed unnoticed among them at first. When they landed at Letterkenny, he was invited with the other officers to breakfast with the Earl of Cavan. It was at that breakfast that he was recognised. Whether an old fellow-student pointed him out, as Mr. W. Tone states, or it happened some other way, the book says is now immaterial. He was handed over to the police and sent off to Dublin to be tried for high treason. Once Tone arrived in Dublin, preparations were made for trying him by court-martial. His son, Mr. W. Tone, gives an account of the trial and says an erroneous notion prevailed that his father considered his French commission as a protection. That was not correct. His father, in his own journal for March 1796, says, "I was willing to encounter danger as a soldier, but had a violent objection to being hanged as a traitor; consequently, I desired a commission in the French army: as to the rank, that was indifferent to me, my only object being a certainty of being treated as a soldier in case the fortune of war"

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The life of Thomas Reynolds, Esq. : formerly of Kilkea Castle, in the county of Kildare (1839), Reynolds, Thomas, -1848, author, Internet Archive lifeofthomasreyn01reyn_0, Chapter 335 · source

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Donegal County Museum

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This is Donegal County Museum, right beside the road here in Letterkenny. The building was the Front Block of Letterkenny Union Workhouse, built 1842 to 1844, dated 1843, and opened in 1845. It was designed by George Wilkinson, Architect to the Poor Law Commissioners in Ireland, appointed 1839 and retired 1855. The composition recalls contemporary Front Blocks at Ballyshannon Union Workhouse and Donegal Union Workhouse, both built 1841 to 1842. The Letterkenny Poor Law Union was formed on the 26th of June 1841. It was overseen by a Board of Guardians of twenty-one elected members and seven ex officio members, who convened at noon each Friday. The workhouse occupied a site of six acres, was designed to accommodate 500 inmates, and was completed at a cost of £6,450, with an additional £1,475 spent on fixtures and furnishings. The stone was a creamy-coloured Mountcharles sandstone, allegedly from the quarries of Francis Nathaniel Conyngham. Letterkenny Union Workhouse was declared fit for the admission of paupers on the 16th of December 1844 and received its first inmates on the 14th of March 1845. The Board of Guardians was officially abolished on the 14th of July 1923. The Front Block was adapted in 1927 as a fever hospital to designs by William James Doherty of Derry. It later served as Saint Anne's Maternity Hospital and as offices for Letterkenny Urban District Council before becoming Donegal County Museum. The accommodation block was repurposed as a bottling plant by Lymac Limited and later demolished to make way for Letterkenny Garda Station.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 40502222 · source

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graveyard/cemetery, Letterkenny

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Here is the burial ground that served the Letterkenny Union Workhouse. A committee was set up in 1847 to find a suitable site, but land beside the workhouse was only obtained in 1868, and the cemetery opened in 1869. At a meeting of the Board of Guardians on the 9th of January 1869, the Guardians inspected the grounds and declared themselves satisfied with its appearance. They recorded their approval of the tactful manner in which the Master had completed its enclosure and laid out the grounds, and directed that the chaplains be told the cemetery was ready for interments. There is a recent monument here commemorating those who died during the famine years, but the record calls it misleading, as unclaimed remains of inmates were traditionally buried at Conwal and Leck. In 1975, a road widening project uncovered 75 skeletons, and the remains were reinterred at Leck.

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Ritual site - holy well, Drumnahough

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Right here at Drumnahough in Donegal is a recorded ritual site. The record describes a boulder beside a stream, outside the east wall of a graveyard that is still in use. The boulder is 0.75 metres by 0.5 metres by 0.35 metres, with a basin 0.2 metres across and 0.13 metres deep. A thorn tree next to it had rags tied to it when the site was visited. The holy well marked on old maps near the boulder has left no trace. The ground lies close to a sharp bend in the River Swilly.

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Hugh Rothwell's Bog Plantation at Sylvan Park

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Along here at Sylvan Park in Donegal, Hugh Rothwell was planting ten acres of bog and moor land as of February 1802. He intended to plant at the rate of 6000 trees of different kinds to the acre, turning waste ground into woodland.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Statistical Survey of the County of Meath (1802), Thompson, Robert, Internet Archive statisticalsurv00thomgoog, Chapter 48 · source

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Battle of the Thorn near Letterkenny, 1567

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Right around here is the site of the Battle of the Thorn, fought in 1567. Shane O'Neill invaded Tyrconnell in great force that year, and O'Donnell assembled his hosting at Ardingary, just near the town of Letterkenny. On May 8th Shane made a rapid advance upon them, crossing the estuary of the Swilly about two miles below Letterkenny. O'Donnell was posted on the heights overlooking this level ground. The whole battle passed in the space enclosed between the Swilly and the Ramelton road, bounded east by Oak Park and west by Letterkenny. A cavalry skirmish down by the foreshore delayed O'Neill's advance at a critical moment, for the O'Donnell host was only still assembling.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 79 · source

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Kirke establishes relief garrison near Rathmelton

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Up ahead is Rathmelton, in Donegal. In 1689, Kirke could not reach Derry by way of Lough Foyle, so he sailed up Lough Swilly and placed 800 men near this town, a few miles west of Derry. He chose the spot to draw the besiegers' attention and pull their forces away from the Foyle. De Rosen saw the move but would not weaken his own river blockade. Instead he ordered Berwick from Enniskillen to dislodge Kirke, and Berwick arrived at Rathmelton with 1,200 horse about the 22nd of July. Kirke's position was naturally strong, set among the inlets of the lough that indented the country in all directions, nearly to Derry itself. He was entrenched on one of the peninsulas, under the guns of his frigates. Berwick spent a whole day trying to drive him out and failed. He retired to a nearby height and settled for watching Kirke and keeping him confined to his trenches.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The Battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 (1867), John Boyle, Project Gutenberg #54518, Chapter 7 · source

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Salmon leaping at Drummonaghan waterfall

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Somewhere close to Bridge End or Drummonaghan, the Lennan has a waterfall made by a mill carry about 15 feet high, with a boarded passage for the salmon to get up by. On a day of flood there is no finer sight. The water comes roaring over the stones, brown and frothy, and every now and then a flash of purple appears, a black back shows itself, scarring the smooth rush up the salmon gap. If the fish keeps perfectly straight he gets over, but let him slew the least to one side and he is swung broadside on. Then comes a second or two of frantic struggling till he gives up the battle and rolls down on his side, showing silver at every turn. Sometimes the whole place is alive with them, and the fish endeavour to scramble their way by side nooks and corners in the carry, often almost on the very bank. It is these wild rushes that make salmon the easiest fish in the world to capture, if they are not protected. They can be shot, they can be gaffed, they could frequently even be taken out by hand. After a long drought, when the first drops of a fresh come down to the lower holes, especially in autumn, the fish go simply wild with desire for the upper waters and the spawning grounds.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 193 · source

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Ramelton's 'Irish Iniquities' lecture anecdote

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As you come through Rathmelton in Donegal, there's a story that captures the flavour of the place. A gentleman once planned to enlighten the town with a lecture on Irish Antiquities, and it was duly advertised about the streets. An old woman who kept a stall on fair days came up to him and said, "So, your Reverence, you're going to give us a lecture on Irish iniquities. Faith, and there's plenty of them any way." She had mixed up antiquities with iniquities, but she wasn't wrong about there being plenty to talk about. The story comes from a time when local traditions still lived close to the surface here, and the author notes that this part of Tyrconnell was never over-civilised, not in Red Hugh's day and not now. The old roads and fords of the Swilly near Letterkenny and the routes through Barnesmore Gap to Donegal were the same ways people travelled when bridges did not yet exist in the country. What you pass through now carries that long, unbroken thread of local memory.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 20 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Craigmaddyroe Far

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Right here, on the shoreline of Lough Swilly, there was once a holy well called Tobar Breallagh, probably named after St. Baothallach, whose day is the 5th of October. The well was never marked on any Ordnance Survey map, but local memory placed it along this shore. It was washed away, and there is now no visible trace of it.

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Ritual site - holy well, Craigmaddyroe Far

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Right here at Craigmaddyroe Far is a holy well, a basin-stone holding water in a flattish slab with a depression in it. Stones have been built up over the slab to form a roof, and pieces of white quartz are laid on it. The well is called Tobar Breallagh, probably from St. Baothallach, whose day is the 5th of October. Ó Muirgheasa recorded the two holy wells in this area in 1936, noting one on each side of the road. According to tradition, water from this well is used as an eye cure.

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Flight of the Earls

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Somewhere around here, on 14 September 1607, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell, departed from Rathmullan for Catholic Europe. They were the patriarchs of the two most powerful clans in Ulster, and about 100 people sailed with them, including their extended families and fellow nobility. Both earls had fought against the Crown in the Nine Years' War from 1593 to 1603, ending in their surrender. James VI and I granted generous peace terms, but hostility from officials grew over time. English law brought financial difficulties and a land dispute between Tyrone and his vassal Donnell Ballagh O'Cahan, which officials like Arthur Chichester and John Davies weaponised. The earls may have been conspiring, and the flight could have been an attempt to evade arrest. Their departure is considered to symbolise the end of Gaelic Irish society. The exact motivation is debated. They were bound for A Coruña in Spain, their ally during the war, but storms drove them to Quillebeuf-sur-Seine in France. Philip III forbade them from entering Spain, fearing violation of the 1604 Anglo-Spanish peace treaty. They spent time in Leuven in the Spanish Netherlands, leaving their children at the Irish College of St Anthony. They arrived in Rome on 29 April 1608 and received small pensions from Pope Paul V. Tyrconnell died of a fever three months later. Tyrone repeatedly spoke of returning to retake his lands, but he fell ill and died in 1616. Most of the passengers never returned to Ireland. King James declared the flight treasonous, which led to the seizure and plantation of their lands by Protestants from Great Britain as part of the Plantation of Ulster. It is considered a watershed moment in Irish history.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), en.wikipedia.org: Flight of the Earls · source

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Kidnapping of Red Hugh O'Donnell at Rathmullan

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As you come through Rathmullan in Donegal, this is where one of the most famous kidnappings in Irish history happened in 1587. In May of that year, Perrott wrote to Elizabeth proposing to take O'Donnell, his wife, or his son Hugh Roe, known as Red Hugh, by sending them a boat with wines. Elizabeth chose the kidnapping. In September 1587, a merchant ship sailed up Lough Swilly and anchored opposite Rathmullan. Her master was George Dudall, but the man who appeared as her owner and announced a cargo of choice wines was Captain Birmingham of her Majesty's forces. He had heard that Owen Oge of the Battle-axes planned a visit to MacSwiney of Fanad, where the head of the MacSwineys came to cosher, meaning to demand free quarters as was his right. Birmingham traded freely and generously for some days. Then Owen Oge arrived at the head of a great retinue. Harpers rode with their instruments slung behind their backs or borne by attendants. Story-tellers came to beguile the intervals of feasting with fragments of ancient epic. There rode Owen Oge's bard, who composed poems in his praise, and the professional rhapsodists who recited them, for the bard composed but did not sing. Captain Birmingham lured Red Hugh O'Donnell, then fifteen, aboard with the MacSwiney chiefs and Sir Owen O'Gallagher. He bolted the cabin door and seized them.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 118 · source

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Plundering of Rathmullan monastery by George Bingham

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Coming up along Rathmullan in Donegal. In early 1595, Hugh Roe O'Donnell raided Connaught twice and drove off great preys of cattle, and the Binghams in Sligo took it as a deep insult. To avenge it, George Bingham fitted out two ships in Sligo harbour and sailed them along the coast of Carbury, round Teelin Head, and into Lough Swilly. He came ashore here and fell on the Carmelite monastery, carrying away the sacred vessels, the ornaments of the altar, the vestments of the priests, and every other article of value he could find. From here he sailed on to Tory Island and rifled the chief church there, dedicated to Saint Columba, patron saint of the O'Donnells. So he outraged at once Hugh Roe's religion and his territory, then sailed back to Sligo well pleased. His triumph did not last. Lieutenant Ulick Burke, second in command at Sligo, hated the Binghams for their treatment of him and for the wholesale massacre of his relations. He gathered enough of the garrison to his design, and they fell on Bingham in the castle and butchered him, putting to the sword or driving out all who took his part. Whether O'Donnell was privy to the plot is not shown, but he certainly gained the most from it, for Burke had no sooner become master of the place than the advantage shifted to the O'Donnells.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of Sligo : town and county (1900), O'Rorke, Terence, Internet Archive historyofsligoto00oror, Chapter 153 · source

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Burial ground, Killygarvan Lower

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There is a burial ground right beside the road here, at Killygarvan Lower in Donegal. In April 1988, Roy Spence of Belfast reported the discovery of human remains on Killygarvan Island to the National Museum. The island is tidal, sitting at the northern end of Kinnegar Strand, about 50 metres across and 2 metres at its highest. Its southern flank was being eroded, and along that side two lintel graves were uncovered. The first lay 2.1 metres north-west of the second. In September 1988 Spence reported the second grave nearby. R. Ó Floinn of the National Museum excavated the site. The first grave was 0.3 to 0.4 metres below the sod, covered by three slabs, with five principal slabs on each side leaning outwards. It was irregular in plan, 1.73 metres long inside and 0.34 metres wide at the western end. The floor was paved with carefully laid slabs. The skeleton lay on its back, fully extended, head in the south-western corner facing south. The lower arm bones, vertebrae, ribs and pelvic bones were almost entirely missing, lost when the covering slabs collapsed. The remains were identified as an adult female. The second grave held no bone. Its covering stones were arranged neatly over an oval area 1.25 metres long and 0.7 metres wide, four stones overlapping. A tapering pillar-like stone, 0.7 metres long, lay across the covering stones. It had stood upright at the southern end as a grave-marker. Though no bone survived, a headstone and pillow stone showed the head was placed to the south. The size indicated a child. The absence of structures or tradition of burial here may mean these lintel graves were part of an early cemetery, later replaced by the one surrounding Killygarvan Church to the north. R. Ó Floinn published the findings in the Donegal Annual for 1992.

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Macamish Fort

What it said · 150 of 389 words

Freestanding three-stage Martello tower, built about 1812-13, on ovoid plan, having three-gun battery to north. Now in use as private dwelling/holiday home, with modern additions. Flat roof to tower, hidden behind raised ashlar granite parapet. Remains of traversing gun platform to roof (not viewed), and with later rendered chimneystacks to east and northwest sides. Crenellated parapet to later addition to northwest side of tower, and shallow pitched roof to later addition to northeast. Dressed ashlar granite walling to tower, with machicolation on corbelled base over doorway to southwest side. Square-headed window opening to south face, having cast-iron quarry-glazed window. Square-headed doorway to southwest side at second stage level with dressed monolithic lintel and battened timber door, accessed by flight of concrete steps with wrought-iron or mild steel guard-rail. Square-headed openings to later additions. Site surrounded by battered coursed rubble stone boundary walls. Recent buildings to site with flat concrete roofs. Concrete bridge over rock-cut ditch to landward, south side, having coursed stone walls to each side. Gateway to south of site with coursed stone square-plan gate piers and wrought-iron double-leaf gate. Tower sited on narrow promontory jutting out into west side of Lough Swilly, to north of Rathmullan. This impressive Napoleonic-era coastal fortification is an important element of the built heritage and history of County Donegal. Despite some modifications over the years, and recent works to convert it for use as a private dwelling/holiday home, it retains its stark original character. It is of a form that is atypical of Martello towers in Ireland, but resembles the tower at Magilligan Point, Co. Derry. The entrance to the site from the landward side was by drawbridge over a rock-cut ditch; this drawbridge has been replaced by a bridge. There was also a powder magazine and a shot furnace to the site. Macamish Martello Tower is one of six such coastal batteries and Martello towers established along Lough Swilly to defend against possible French invasion during the Napoleonic Wars of the early nineteenth century. The gunners remained at Macamish until 1878 when the site was abandoned (although the guns appear to have been removed by 1874). The site was converted for use as a private dwelling or holiday home in recent years, apparently carried out to designs by the celebrated architect Liam McCormick, adding another layer of interest to this site.

Read from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 40902801 · source

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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Bin

What it said · 104 of 104 words

Right beside the road here at Bin in Donegal is a portal tomb, a small roofless chamber looking out south-east over Lough Swilly. Entry is between two portal stones, though only the western one still stands at its full height of 1.55 metres. The eastern portal stone was intact in 1929, but by 1975 it had been broken down to a stub just 0.35 metres high. Two side slabs lean inward against a gabled backstone, forming a chamber that would have been a little over 2 metres long and 1.4 metres wide. It was never marked on any edition of the Ordnance Survey map.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG028-019---- · source

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Children's burial ground, Killycolman

What it said · 30 of 30 words

Right here at Killycolman in Donegal is a children's burial ground. It's marked as such on the 1905 edition of the Ordnance Survey map. Nothing more is recorded about it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG028-013---- · source

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Excursion to Knockalla Mountains and Black Loughs

What it said · 179 of 231 words

The road here takes you through Knockalla in Donegal. An old guide describes a very enjoyable excursion from Portsalon up to the top of the Knockalla Mountains and the Black Loughs, which nestle within a hundred feet of the summits. The chief heights are Callaghpatrick at 1,203 feet and Binnadreex at 1,032 feet, and the walk to the top is by no means fatiguing. A car-road leads to the very base of the range, and from the top you get a fine view over the whole of Fanad, Inishowen, and Lough Swilly. Another enjoyable climb in the area goes to Lough Doira and Lough Goragh, which lie amidst most picturesque surroundings, and again a car-road runs to a point of vantage from which the ascent is easy. Other climbs lead to the top of Dargan Hill at 570 feet and Murren Hill at 754 feet, both giving grand views of Fanad and Mulroy Bay. The guide also points cliff-climbers toward the stretch between the Seven Arches and Fanad Head Lighthouse, described as the second most northerly light in Ireland. The Seven Arches themselves are within easy walking distance of the hotel and are remarkable examples of marine erosion, approached by rude steps carved from the rock. At low tide they can be explored with little risk, though care is needed to watch the inrush of water should the sea be rough.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 13 · source

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Children's burial ground, An Cheathrú Riabhach (Tc Cnoc Colbha)

What it said · 48 of 48 words

Right beside the road here is a children's burial ground, a low platform about 18 metres across and less than a metre high. Several stones lie on the surface, including a block of white quartz, likely grave markers. It sits on a gentle rise in open grazing land.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG028-005---- · source

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Burial ground, Bun Na Toinne

What it said · 74 of 74 words

Right here at Bun Na Toinne in Donegal, there was once a burial ground for strangers found drowned. The 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map marked it, but gave no exact position. A search of the area found no trace of it. The ground is rough rock outcrop at the base of the Knockalla mountain range. The record point sits where the name was printed on the OS 25-inch plan, surveyed in 1900.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG018-019---- · source

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Knockalla Fort

What it said · 249 of 249 words

Somewhere close to this place stands Knockalla Fort, one of several Napoleonic batteries built along the shores of Lough Swilly in Donegal. It was part of a scheme to fortify Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle against French invasion during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was completed between 1812 and 1813. On the other side of the Lough is Fort Dunree. The fort was built on the site of a temporary fortification first built in 1798. It is triangular in shape with a tower on the landward side. From the tower, two walls of the fort, protected by a dry moat partly cut into the rock, lead down to the edge of steep rocky cliffs, where there are batteries on two levels. The lower battery had seven gun emplacements, originally mounting French 42 Pounder smooth bore guns on traversing platforms. The upper level contains barrack accommodation, a magazine, casemates, an entrance gateway, and an upper battery for two 24 Pounder smooth bore guns. The tower was armed with a 24 Pounder gun and a 5.5-inch howitzer. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars the defences were neglected and not updated. By the 1860s the fort was armed with an 18 Pounder gun and a 5.5-inch howitzer in the tower, and a 24 Pounder gun in the upper battery. By this time it was obsolete, and was disarmed and abandoned by the military in the 1870s. The fort remains substantially intact and is now in use as a private residence.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), en.wikipedia.org: Knockalla Fort · source

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Ballymastocker Bay strand

What it said · 106 of 106 words

You're coming along Ballymastocker Bay here in Donegal. The strand runs three miles along the shore, skirting the Portsalon golf links. It's backed by the precipitous cliffs that abruptly terminate the Knockalla Mountains on the shores of Lough Swilly. The ridges of that range fade away in blue haze towards the south, while out on the water Lough Swilly stretches around. The Portsalon golf links rank among the finest and most sporting in the United Kingdom. The eighteen holes run in a circuit of three and a half miles along this bay, with hazards of sand bunkers, burns, and bents, and natural greens on excellent turf.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 11 · source

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Burial ground, Killavee

What it said · 49 of 49 words

Right here at Killavee in Donegal, a natural mound of rock served in part as a burial ground. In 1940, Davies noted a few headstones in a small enclosure. The ground is heavily overgrown now, sitting in fair pasture on the edge of the sand hills behind Stocker Strand.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG018-004---- · source

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Unknown wreck, Foreshore at Port Salon

What it said · 45 of 45 words

Right here on the foreshore at Port Salon, aircraft wreckage sometimes appears when the sand levels drop. It may be the remains of a Liberator bomber, though that is not certain. Nothing more is recorded about it — no date, no crew, no known loss.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Wreck Inventory of Ireland Database (CC-BY 4.0), WIID W11648 · source

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Portsalon hotel and the 'Orange majority' jest

What it said · 135 of 135 words

Coming up now, the road takes you past Portsalon in Donegal. Colonel Barton built a hotel here, and it may be the best known of all the Donegal hotels. That fame owes something to a golf links at his door, one of the three best in Ireland, but the hotel was started before golf came to give a push to tourist traffic. Barton was a pioneer. The history is roughly this. The Government built a pier in Ballymastocker Bay, and Colonel Barton saw he could work with the steamer that would bring excursionists down from Derry. He applied for a spirit license as hotel-keeper. That brought violent opposition from the neighbouring publican. The Licensing Bench overruled the opposition, and Colonel Barton got his license. The defeated rival, a Catholic and a Nationalist, went away cursing by all his gods against the bloody Orange majority. He said to a knot of his sympathisers, let him alone, boys, wait till he gets to hell. He'll find no Orange majority there. The delightful part is that the joke was preserved and published by the publican's own attorney, who overheard it and could not let a good joke perish even when it told against his own side.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 113 · source

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Portsalon Hotel opened by Colonel Barton

What it said · 60 of 60 words

As you travel through Portsalon on the Fanad peninsula, north of the Knockalla Mountains, you pass the old Portsalon Hotel. Colonel B. J. Barton opened it in 1889, originally his private residence, with castellated walls that became a landmark on the shore of Lough Swilly. It was a touring hotel offering country-seat seclusion and first-class luxuries for over 100 guests.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 10 · source

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Portsalon Golf Links

What it said · 69 of 69 words

As you pass through Portsalon, you are near one of the finest and most sporting golf links in the United Kingdom. The eighteen holes skirt Ballymastocker Bay in a circuit of three and a half miles, with the first tee within two hundred yards of the hotel doors. The hazards are sand bunkers, burns and bents, and the greens are for the most part natural, with excellent turf throughout.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 11 · source

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Portsalon Golf Links course description

What it said · 70 of 70 words

Up ahead is Portsalon in Donegal, where the golf links here had a fearsome fourteenth hole they called The Matterhorn. It was 241 yards and needed careful golf. A large sand bunker sat in front of the tee, with boulders on both sides, and a misdirected drive spelled disaster. Past those, a mashie shot over a high mound reached a tricky green that often cost three or even four puts.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 12 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Carryblagh

What it said · 181 of 181 words

Right here is St. Columbkille's holy well in Carryblagh, Donegal. Ó Muirgheasa described it in 1936 as Tobar Colmcille, in Doughcrabin townland near Doaghbeg School in Fanad. He recorded that pilgrims still made stations here on Colmcille's Day, the 9th of June. The ritual was precise. You would say 5 paters and aves at the front of the well, then 7 to the left, then go around behind the well sunwise and say 7 to the right. Repeat that three times. Then walk three times around the well, throwing a pebble on the mound each time, and finish with your petitions in front of the well. Pilgrims would bring away a bottle of water. The well sits to the east of the base of a steep cliff and is surrounded by a cairn of stones left by pilgrims. When inspected in 2011, it was found covered by two flat slabs resting on two rectangular piers of mortared stone, a structure erected in 2010. Votive offerings had been placed on the slabs: statues, rosary beads, crosses, biros, flowers, stones, pictures, and coins.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG009-006002- · source

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Doon Fort and monolith at Trabane

What it said · 58 of 58 words

Right here at the silver strand of Trabane is the Doon Fort, at the northern end of the strand, and in a creek close by stands a fine monolith. You reach them along the coastal road from Malin More, past Malin Beg and Rossarell Point, where the mountains rise inland and the Atlantic breaks on the strands below.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 58 · source

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Sand boated from Trabane for Hospice

What it said · 162 of 162 words

You are right beside the strand at Trabane in Donegal. The name means the white strand, and from here four thousand tons of sand were boated across the lake for building the Hospice at Lough Derg. Most of the stones in that building were collected around the shore of the lake and its islands. Ten thousand tons of stones were gathered that way, the boat carrying four tons in each load. Two thousand barrels of lime were drawn from Pettigo. One hundred tons of cut-stone came by train more than forty miles from the Brookeborough quarries. Many Protestant farmers of Templecarne parish helped their Catholic neighbours cart the materials from the railway station at Pettigo. The prior had not gone far in his preparations before he saw the storm coming. While laying the foundations he protruded at one corner onto the bed of the lake. The landlord claimed ownership not only of the lough but of the island itself, and resented this. It was no use pointing out that in dry seasons, or when "the carry mouth," as the outlet of the river Derg is called, is free from impediments, the ledge of rock all round the Hospice is dry land. Nor did it help to say that the site was so limited, hemmed in on one side by the lough and on the other by the penal cells or circles, that this encroachment on the lake bed could not be avoided.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from St. Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Derg : its history, traditions, legends, antiquities, topography and scenic surroundings with some account of its more notable pilgrims and a detailed description of the authorised devotions performed at its venerable shrine (1895), O'Connor, Daniel, 1843-1919, Internet Archive stpatrickspurgat00ocon, Chapter 146 · source

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Children's burial ground, An Baile úr

What it said · 42 of 42 words

Right here at An Baile úr in Donegal is a children's burial ground, marked on maps as a calluragh. It's a small semi-circular enclosure bounded by a stone wall, sitting on level ground where rock breaks through, with good grazing around it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG008-002---- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, An Baile úr

What it said · 54 of 54 words

Right here is a holy well dedicated to St. Patrick, a small artificial opening in the steep face of a hillslope, partly overlain by a flat slab. In 1936 Ó Muirgheasa recorded it as Tobar Phadraig, near Ballymichael school in Fanad, and noted that stations were still made here on the 17th of March.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG008-003---- · source

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Bin of Fanad cliffs and Swilly Rock

What it said · 150 of 150 words

Somewhere about Fanad Head, the cliffs run about six miles from Portsalon and reach their highest point at the Bin of Fanad, a square-cut precipice with a fall of about 300 feet. Just off the Bin lies the Swilly Rock, the one obstacle to navigation in Lough Swilly. Early in the century, the Saldanha frigate was lost there with all hands, and the only thing that came alive ashore was a grey parrot. Captain Pakenham commanded that unlucky vessel. He was serving in the Peninsula when orders reached him to join his ship and sail with sealed instructions. He confided to Napier that for the first time he felt uneasy about his safety. He said it was borne in upon him that he would lose his life on this voyage, and that the place would be Lough Swilly in the north of Ireland. The forewarning, as the memoirs put it,

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 114 · source

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LOP 79

What it said · 86 of 86 words

Right here at Arryheernabin in Donegal is a small Second World War watch hut, built about 1941 on elevated ground overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. It served as a look-out post and communication base during what was called the Emergency, when watch huts were erected along the Irish coastline. The structure has a flat rendered roof with a moulded parapet and smooth-rendered walls with square-headed openings that now lack their fittings. It is one of the few military structures from this era that survive in the county.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 40900924 · source

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Burial ground, An Baile úr

What it said · 97 of 97 words

Right here at An Baile úr in Donegal, there is a burial ground. It is subrectangular, 26 metres east to west and 22 metres north to south. A grassed-over bank is barely traceable on three sides, and a modern field wall closes off the west. Three stones stand along the bank, called O'Donnell's stones. One stands near the north-west corner, 1.1 metres tall. A second is at the north-east corner, squarish, 0.85 metres high. A third sits at the south-east corner, 1.45 metres tall. A fourth stone, now built into the west field wall, may be a companion to the other three, though there is no certainty about that. Inside the enclosure there is a plain cross of relatively modern date. The ground here is level, the soil light. The sea is visible to the north.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG008-001---- · source

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A Protestant Village on Mulroy Bay

What it said · 105 of 105 words

As you travel along Mulroy Bay in Donegal, there is a village the author passed through that was made up entirely of Protestants, all of one family and one name. They had settled here in a quiet, secluded spot on the borders of the bay, with some good land skirting the shore and a large tract of mountain pasture for their cattle to range on. The author went into their houses and was received with much simple kindness, refreshed with the best food they could afford: oaten bread, butter, and potatoes. They were a fine race of men, a fair family of women, decently clad and sufficiently fed. The author wrote that the ignorance of anything better than their own state formed their bliss, and asked, would it not be cruel to attempt to make them more knowing? On the other side of the waters of Mulroy is the peninsula of Fannat, bounded on the east by Lough Swilly and on the west by Mulroy Lough. It is a wild mountain district, subject in many places to the blowing of the sand, but containing a great and increasing population. The Protestants of that district were blessed with the residence and pastoral labour of a truly pious minister, whose exertions, preaching, and example had a most beneficial effect on those who attended his instructions.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 34 · source

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Cromlech at Kerrykeel

What it said · 71 of 71 words

As you travel through Carrowkeel on the Fanad peninsula, you are on the road between Rosapenna and Portsalon, and at Kerrykeel along this route stands a cromlech. The book notes it simply as an antiquity you pass on the way, a single marker of old Ireland on a road that otherwise runs along the shore of Mulroy for some miles. No more is said of it than that it is there.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 113 · source

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Children's burial ground, Carrowkeel (Carrowkeel Ed)

What it said · 87 of 87 words

Right here is a children's burial ground in Carrowkeel, Donegal. It's a low, flat-topped, roughly circular platform, about 33 metres east to west and 35 metres north to south, raised slightly above the surrounding pasture. There are intermittent stones around the perimeter, and a narrow roadway crosses the site near the south-west edge. A scatter of stones lies between that roadway and the platform's edge. The ground sits about 70 metres west of the Burnside River, with a spur of rock outcrop adjoining it on the north-east.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG027-018---- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Raithnigh (Tc An Cheathrú Chaol)

What it said · 58 of 58 words

Right here is a holy well in Raithnigh, in the townland of An Cheathrú Chaol. A well is shown on the Ordnance Survey map a few metres north-west of a possible church, marked on the map as Tempodesha, site of. Kinahan recorded that "any old church that may formerly have existed has disappeared," so only the well remains.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG027-019---- · source

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The Giant's Grave on the mountain ridge above Mulroy Bay

What it said · 152 of 152 words

As you pass Mulroy Bay, up on the mountain ridge about two miles from the shore, there's a place the locals call the Giant's Grave. On the summit, surrounded by peat-bog, stand two long stone structures shaped like coffins, built from immense stones joined together and covered over with large flagstones. One runs about thirty-four feet long, the other about twenty, and they are four to six feet broad. The people living nearby, who were Protestants, could give no account of where they came from or what they were for. They said only that they were giants' graves. The writer who visited them said he never saw anything similar in any mountain district of Ireland, and that he was still puzzling over how to account for them. Down below, cormorants and curlews and sandpipers stood on the rocks over the solitary waters, wondering what brought two gentlemen up to molest their loneliness.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 33 · source

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Starving Crowds Besiege the Hewitson Cottage at Rossgarrow

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Somewhere close to Rossgarrow in Donegal, in 1847, a woman of the Hewitson household rose while it was yet dark each morning. By four she was in her meal-room, weighing out meal for the poor. The Society of Friends in Dublin had furnished her with grants, and this distribution had become her daily practice. Through the day the starving gathered around the cottage until it became what the author called a nucleus not of the most pleasant kind. The lower window-frame in the kitchen was of board instead of glass, all the glass having been broken by the pressure of faces continually pressed there. The author asked who could eat, who could work, who could read, who could play in such circumstances. The sunshine seemed changed, the rain gave a stranger pattering, the wind moan dolefully. The dogs ceased their barking, scarcely a cock was heard crowing in the morning, and the gladsome mirth of children everywhere ceased. For leagues you might travel, the author wrote, and in house or cabin, by the wayside, on the hill-top, or upon the meadow, you should not see a smile, not see the sprightly foot running after the rolling hoop, leaping the ditch or tossing the ball.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Annals of the Famine in Ireland (1851), Asenath Nicholson, Project Gutenberg #annalsfamineini00nichgoog, Chapter 4 · source

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Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Claggan (Milford Ed)

What it said · 109 of 109 words

Right here in Claggan, the maps called this spot Giant's Grave on three editions of the Ordnance Survey between 1834 and 1905, but they could not agree on where it actually was. One survey entry from 1848 said the feature on the 1834 map was an old altar where mass used to be said about forty years before, while a 1903 entry called it a cairn of stones supposed to have been the burial place of giants. By the end of the 19th century a searcher named Kinahan failed to find it, and there is no convincing evidence a megalithic tomb ever stood at any of the mapped locations.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG036-012---- · source

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Lord Leitrim's murder on the Mulroy road near Milford

What it said · 137 of 137 words

As you come through Millford, the road runs near Mulroy Lough. Lord Leitrim was killed on this stretch. Two men lay hidden in the woodland and fired on his car. They shot the driver through the heart and hit the clerk with a slug above the ear. Lord Leitrim had no fatal shot wound. Gun butts had done the work. He was found lying in a pool of water, beaten to death. Those who came upon the scene first met the clerk running towards them, saying he was shot. The horse shied at the driver's body in the road. The clerk died in their hands, more from the violent shock than the wound. Looking out over the lough, they saw two men in a boat rowing away, lost in a minute behind one of Mulroy's innumerable islets.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 111 · source

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graveyard/cemetery, Milford

What it said · 178 of 178 words

This is the former union workhouse graveyard, right here in the countryside south-east of Milford. It was in use from about 1842 to 1922 and contains the unmarked graves of victims of the Great Famine. A modern memorial plaque reads, "This cemetery contains the remains of many unidentified people who died between 1845 and 1922." The graveyard was associated with the Milford Union Workhouse complex, built about 1842 to designs by George Wilkinson at a cost of £6,250 for the building and £1,150 for the fittings. It was designed to accommodate 400 individuals, though many more were there during the Famine. First admissions were received on the 6th of April 1842, although the buildings were apparently not completed until 1846. The workhouse remained in operation until 1922 and was demolished about 1980. A cattle mart was built on its site. The graveyard is on a rectangular plan, now out of use and restored in 2006. It is surrounded by modern rubble stone boundary walls to the east and south and earlier walls to the north and west. There is a garden and tree at the centre, with three upright roughly cut stones to the south of the tree. A modern gateway stands to the south, with the memorial plaque nearby, erected 2006 by FAS. The workhouse itself lay to the west and south-west of the graveyard.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 40818036 · source

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Glashagh River at Temple Douglas precinct

What it said · 82 of 82 words

The Glashagh River flows near here, past the precinct of a little abbey at Temple Douglas. The abbey is where Columbkille was baptized, and it is still an object of veneration to many pilgrims at certain seasons of the year. The author of the passage paced meditatively through its mouldering church and tried, in vain, to summon up the day when Columbkille's father and mother brought him to the rude christening font, and the reverend abbot bade them, in the words of the source, to name this child. It would have been a humble ceremony compared with the gorgeous gathering at a royal baptism in our own time. The church would not hold a tithe of the throng that musters in Westminster Abbey on such occasions. Yet Columbkille was a child destined to grow into a man who would achieve far more for the uplifting of his fellow-men than most royal personages taken all together have been able to achieve. The Glashagh River flows past the precinct, where the old monks would have been accustomed to catch their meals for fast-days. Its waters have long flowed, ever changing, into the sea, and the memory of tradition is no less unstable than they.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Haunts of the eagle : man and wild nature in Donegal (1924), Fox, Arthur William, Internet Archive hauntsofeagleman00foxa, Chapter 87 · source

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Lough Fern and the Lennan river setting

What it said · 189 of 189 words

Up ahead is Lough Fern, a lake the road runs near. It is fed and drained by the Lennan river, which comes into the lake and out again within a matter of 300 yards. The book calls it probably as good a piece of free fishing as exists. From April to October there is a good chance of salmon, though nothing startling has ever been done in it. Five salmon to two rods is the best recorded. But this year, before June, several rods had got two fish in a day. On any sort of fishing day you can get a dozen trout, and three or four dozen to two rods is very ordinary fishing. Boats are kept on the lake by Margaret Boyle, at five shillings a day. She also puts up anglers in a cottage on the shore, so clean and comfortable that the book says it is a much needed example to the country side. If you stay with Margaret you can fish the lake, or the lower river, or the upper. The scenery goes all round you. To the south is Moyle Hill and Moyagh, Mr Swiney's house, which is generally to let in summer. To the east the view is blocked by the Fanad Hills above Mulroy. To the north is Lough Salt immediately above. To the west you look up the river valley to Kilmacrenan, and away back to the Glen Veagh mountains and the sharp crest of Errigal.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 195 · source

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Lough Fern: free salmon and trout fishery

What it said · 152 of 152 words

You're passing near Lough Fern here in Donegal, a fine sheet of water over a mile and a half long that offers exceptional free salmon and trout fishing. The Lennon river flows in and out of it at the southern end, and that's where the best chance of a salmon occurs, though the fish distribute themselves fairly well over the whole lough. Good drifts for salmon lie close to the shore on the eastern and western sides, extending halfway up toward the northern end. For brown trout, the best drifts are around the islands at the northern end. Boats and boatmen could be had for four shillings a day, and the best time for salmon was from May until July. Upstream from the lough, the Lennon runs a somewhat sluggish course from its junction with the Lurgy, though there are likely pools worth trying above Ballydoan Bridge and at the Thorn Pool.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 16 · source

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Lough Fern free salmon and trout fishing

What it said · 99 of 99 words

You're coming up on Lough Fern here in Donegal, not far from Portsalon. It's a good spot for anglers, as the old guide puts it, where some salmon and plenty of trout-fishing can be had absolutely free. Portsalon itself sits nearby as a handy base, with golf links at the hotel doors and easy reach to Mulroy Bay and Lough Swilly. Kindrum Lough is also within easy driving distance, full of what the guide calls lusty brown-trout, and plenty of them. The whole district around here is well supplied with little loughs offering fishing of one kind or another.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 11 · source

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Glashagh River brown-trout fishing

What it said · 87 of 87 words

You're coming through the Glashagh River now, a tributary of the Lennon that joins it just before Ramelton. The waters here are boulder-strewn and broken, ending in strong streams where the tails generally hold a fish. It's a sinuous river and somewhat difficult to approach, but the most likely spots are comparatively easy to get at. The book recommends an off day on this stream for brown-trout, and says it will not be wasted. Just don't confuse it with another river of the same name near Churchill.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 17 · source

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Murder of Father O'Hegarty near Millford

What it said · 148 of 178 words

You are coming up on Millford, a town in Donegal. In 1734, a violent episode unfolded here. Bishop Gallagher had been staying at a priest's house, but he could not sleep that night. He rose before day, saddled his horse himself, and set out for Rathmullen, long before anyone else was stirring. He had barely gone when soldiers rushed down the hill and surrounded the house. A magistrate from Millford named Buchanan led them. He had heard the Bishop was inside and had come to seize him. Father O'Hegarty answered their clamorous summons, checked the room where the Bishop had slept, and told them the Bishop was not there. They searched and found their prey had truly escaped. Enraged at the failure, they decided they would not leave without a prisoner. They seized the priest, tied his hands behind his back, and marched him toward Millford gaol. Word spread among his people that their pastor was in enemy hands. They gathered in large numbers, determined to rescue him. They pursued the soldiers, harassing them with stones, their only weapons, and the women kept the people supplied. Buchanan, fearing his prisoner would escape, levelled his horse-pistol at the priest's head and shot him dead. The people, horrified, gathered around the shattered remains of their pastor with loud outcries of grief. Under cover of that diversion, Buchanan and his men made good their escape. Dr. Gallagher, thus providentially saved, found a safe retreat on one of the islands of Loch Erne, where he stayed concealed for a year. There he composed his Volume of Sermons, written in Irish, of which many editions have since appeared.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Collections relating to the dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin (1883), Comerford, M. (Michael), 1830 or 1831-1895, author, Internet Archive collectionsrelat01come, Chapter 76 · source

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Milford transformed under the new Lord Leitrim

What it said · 144 of 144 words

Coming up now is the town of Milford in Donegal. The Leitrim name has a very different repute in the county nowadays. After the old Lord Leitrim was murdered, his nephew and successor inherited the estate. He was a navy officer at the time. He came down at once to the scene of the murder and made himself conspicuous by his attempts to bring the criminals to justice, riding about the country unattended. The tenants soon found that there was to be a new order. All the victims of arbitrary ejectment, so far as was possible, were reinstated. A heavy outlay was made on works of drainage and reclamation. But a still greater boon to the countryside was the establishment of a line of steamers to bring the produce of the farms to Glasgow, and to bring articles in demand to Milford, saving a transport of in many cases 15 miles, and enabling the local shopkeepers to take nearly 1 pound per ton off their charges. The result of these and other measures has been a great improvement in the condition of the people. Milford, from being a miserable village, has become one of the most thriving petty towns in the county. Along the beautiful road by Cratlagh wood, under the oak and hazel which shadow it, you will get a glimpse across the water of a trim-looking pier and store. The building is a mill for grinding Indian corn, which has kept life in the people in times of hardship.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 112 · source

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Presbyterian presence strong around Milford in Donegal

What it said · 178 of 178 words

As the road brings you through Milford in Donegal, you are passing through country where Presbyterians were notably strong. The book that records this says simply that round certain parts of Donegal there is a strong contingent of Presbyterians, especially in the neighbourhood of Milford. The same passage describes the nearby churches of Dunfanaghy, where the finest of three was the Presbyterian, the largest the Catholic chapel, and the third belonging to the Church of Ireland. The older village there was a group of cabins on the way to the Golf Links, overlooking a harbour crossed by shoals and a sand-bar, almost impassable except for smaller boats. Inns were plentiful, though illicit whiskey was still known to be manufactured in the heart of the neighbouring mountains. One dusty shop sold matches, Murray's Mixture, Limerick Roll, and laces, all thickened with dust. Gaelic was much in evidence there, its sonorous vowels and gutturals most impressive, and the frequent shouts of laughter told of the excellence of the conversation. How the owner made a living the writer could not tell.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Haunts of the eagle : man and wild nature in Donegal (1924), Fox, Arthur William, Internet Archive hauntsofeagleman00foxa, Chapter 26 · source

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Children's burial ground, Millford

What it said · 49 of 49 words

Right here at Millford in Donegal is the site of Ard Kelly, a burial ground for children. There's nothing to see now. It was on a flat-topped rise in cultivated land, and it appears on the third edition of the six-inch Ordnance Survey map, but no surface trace survives.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG036-005---- · source

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Murder of Lord Leitrim near Cratlagh wood, 1878

What it said · 118 of 118 words

Somewhere around here, close to Cratlagh, you are near the scene of a bloody episode. In 1878 the third Earl of Leitrim was murdered near Cratlagh wood along the shore of Mulroy Bay. He had served in the army, rising to colonel, before he succeeded his father in the title. The book says he was a man by no means wholly bad, and possessed qualities that might under happier circumstances have made him famous. He had, in the book's words, "absolute courage and a perfectly indomitable will." But he was a tyrannical landlord. He had abolished rundale tenure on his estates and evicted tenants who asserted any rights of their own against his. The road past here goes over the hill past Lady Leitrim's house until it reaches the side of Mulroy Bay. Then it winds along a long heathery slope with steep hills on one side and the lough and its islands on the other. Cratlagh wood runs between the road and the lake for about three miles from Bunlinn. Mulroy Bay is an extraordinary piece of water. It enters by a narrow inlet, spreads out like a fan, sends a great backwater up towards Fanad through another narrow gut, and sprinkles its whole surface with rocks and islands. To know and navigate its tides and channels was a proof of exceptional seamanship.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 109 · source

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Penal Mass station, Cratlagh

What it said · 48 of 48 words

Right here at Cratlagh in Donegal is the site of a Penal Mass station. There was an altar on this spot where Mass was celebrated during the era of the Penal laws. It has sometimes been called a dolmen or a chamber tomb, but those identifications are incorrect.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG036-035---- · source

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Mulroy Bay and Knockalla, mountain of the echo

What it said · 77 of 77 words

The road runs near Mulroy Bay here in Donegal. A saw-toothed ridge called the Devil's Backbone parts this bay from Lough Swilly, the Lake of Shadows, which once lay under the gaze of the Grianan of Ailleach, the summer palace of the kings of northern Ireland. Mulroy Bay carries the Irish name Knockalla, the mountain of the echo. The writer who passed this way found it lonely, with a name far more beautiful than its English one.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Haunts of the eagle : man and wild nature in Donegal (1924), Fox, Arthur William, Internet Archive hauntsofeagleman00foxa, Chapter 51 · source

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Sea-Trout Fishing in Mulroy Bay

What it said · 220 of 220 words

As you travel near Mulroy Bay in Donegal, you're passing water that offers capital sea-trout fishing from July to the end of October. The fish run to a fair size and rise freely to a glittering fly, especially those dressed with gold tinsel body and various wings and hackles. A large Pink Wickham is about as good as any. A boat is necessary, though it can be difficult to get one with a boatman, so it pays to arrange things beforehand. The sea-trout are spread across the bay, but some spots are better than others. Reliable water lies between the islands and the shore close to Rosapenna, at the mouths of the burns running into the bay between Rosapenna and Bunlin Bridge, along the shore from Bunlin Bridge to Milford Quay, at the mouth of the stream flowing from Carrowkeel, in the little bays north and south of Rosnakill, and at the mouth of the stream from Kindrum Lough. Fishing from boats is free, but many shores are private and permission is needed, which is not a difficult matter. Visitors at Rosapenna may fish from most of the shores. The biggest baskets are made on a falling spring tide, and some very fine brown-trout are often taken at the mouths of the streams, with Bunlin Bridge especially good for those.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 20 · source

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graveyard/cemetery, Carrickart

What it said · 117 of 117 words

Right here at Carrickart are the ruins of a Catholic chapel built about 1807, with its graveyard. It was a hall-type chapel, a long rectangular building, and Lewis later called it a "good slated building" in 1837. It was the place of worship for the Catholic congregation at nearby Carrickart until a replacement church was built between 1868 and 1886. The graveyard holds gravemarkers dating from the early nineteenth century through to the late twentieth century, and some burials lie inside the former church itself. One marker commemorates Cardinal Logue. The site is bounded by simple rubble stone walls with a gateway to the south. A newer burial ground has since opened east of the present church.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 40808006 · source

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Glen Lough and the old eel-weir on the Lackagh

What it said · 218 of 218 words

Up ahead is Glen Lough in Donegal, where the Lackagh River runs out through a stretch called the Throat. Below the lake comes about a mile of continuous fall, too shallow to fish except in a flood, and then a hole called the Grass Garden, about 50 yards long. Below that is a pool of 200 yards or so, and at its head a stream is made by an old eel-weir, described as probably the best salmon throw in the county. The Lackagh was free to guests at the Rosapenna Hotel up to the end of July, an early river worth fishing in March and April. After July it was reserved by Lady Leitrim. At all seasons the Leitrim fishing was only one side, but two rods could fish the pool facing each other. Glen Lough itself was also a capital chance for salmon, and white trout fishing in both river and lough could be excellent in August and September. Brown trout were plentiful too, of what the writer calls the herring size, and the same flies served for both kinds. He notes that a wise man would let the salmon alone most days and fish for trout instead, but the temptation of the stronger excitement was hard to resist, and he laments the blank days he spent.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 191 · source

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Glen Lough: premier sea-trout lough of Donegal

What it said · 207 of 207 words

You are coming near Glen Lough, the whole lake stretching over two miles through the mountains of Donegal. It is a lovely sheet of water, about half a mile wide on average, sheltered on all sides by Crockmore, Lough Salt, Cashel, Croagh, and Binbane, with the little village of Glen at the far end beneath Binbane's slopes. Among the very best sea-trout loughs in the county, it also holds salmon and fine brown trout. Guests at Rosapenna Hotel, about five miles away, were permitted to fish it free, with boats provided at no charge, and competent boatmen available for about three shillings a day plus the man's refreshment. The lough's formation suits fishermen, as good drifts are available no matter the wind, though it fishes best with a south-west wind blowing down it. One thing to note: the Lackagh River, by which the lough's waters reach the sea, enters halfway down. Salmon bound for the Owencarrow River and Lough Veagh tend to lie in the upper parts of the lough, while sea-trout prefer the several feeders. The lough receives four feeders, including the Owencwee River from Lough Greenan and the Glen River, which rises north of Lough Salt and flows in just below the village of Glen.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 33 · source

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Battle at Gleann-Righe against Conaille and Mughdhorna

What it said · 43 of 43 words

Close to Glenree, in 995, an army of the Conaille and Mughdhorna marched to Gleann-Righe. Aedh, son of Domhnall, lord of Oileach, overtook them and gave battle. He defeated them, and Matudhan Ua Croinghille, lord of Conaille, was slain, along with 200 men.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Annala Rioghachta Eireann : Annals of the kingdom of Ireland (1856), O'Clery, Michael, 1575-1643, Internet Archive annalarioghachta01ocleuoft, Chapter 120 · source

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Children's burial ground, Drumdutton

What it said · 63 of 63 words

Right beside the road here at Drumdutton in Donegal is a children's burial ground, marked as such on the second edition of the OS 6-inch map. It's a small oval enclosure, about 8 metres north to south and 4 metres east to west, ringed by a collapsed, overgrown drystone wall, set on the south side of a large rocky mound in grazing land.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG026-026---- · source

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O'Clery lands granted at Creevagh

What it said · 166 of 166 words

Somewhere around here in Creevagh, the O'Donnells granted lands to a family of scholars that shaped Irish learning for generations. The story began when O'Clery married the daughter of O'Sgingin on the condition that their firstborn son would study history and become O'Sgingin's heir. Their son, named Gilla-Brighde after his mother's brother who had died in 1382, became ollav to O'Donnell in history. He was succeeded by his son Gillareagh, and then by Dermot O'Clery, called "of the Three Schools" because he kept a school for general literature, a school of history, and a school of poetry. Dermot became so distinguished that O'Donnell, Niall son of Turlough of the Wine, granted him the lands of Creevagh in the parish of Kilbarron to help him expand his establishment. Dermot's son Teige Cam O'Clery had three sons noted for their hospitality, wealth, and learning, and they built a castle and other stone buildings on the hereditary lands of Kilbarron, fragments of which were still visible in the 1840s.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Annala Rioghachta Eireann : Annals of the kingdom of Ireland (1856), O'Clery, Michael, 1575-1643, Internet Archive annalarioghachta01ocleuoft, Chapter 4 · source

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Castle - tower house, Castledoe

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Doe Castle is right here, on a promontory in Sheephaven Bay, protected by the sea on three sides and a rock-cut fosse to the west. It's first mentioned in 1544, in a struggle among the sons of MacSweeny Doe. In 1588 some survivors of the Spanish Armada were given refuge here. The castle was caught up in the wars between the English and Irish from 1600 to 1614, when it passed to Captain John Sandford. A description from 1623 calls it an ancient strong castle, three storeys high, with a bawn of lime and stone and good flankers, well repaired by Sandford, who had slated it and was building a stone house within the bawn. When rebellion broke out in 1641 the castle fell to the Irish, and in 1642 Owen Roe O'Neill landed here with 100 Irish veterans. Sir Charles Coote took it for the English in 1650, and it stayed a military garrison through the later 17th century. In the Williamite Wars Donogh Og MacSweeny seized it after the occupants had withdrawn to Derry. It was then abandoned and fell into ruin. Around 1800 George Vaughan Harte began restoring it, and his son Captain John Hart finished the work at great expense. A visitor named William Harte recorded five nine-pounder cannon mounted on a new earthwork outside the east wall. The Harte family left for Kilderry in 1864, Stewart of Ards bought the estate, and the castle was let to tenants until about 1890, when it was abandoned again. The Land Commission bought it in 1932, and it's a national monument now.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG026-023001- · source

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Doe Castle: Mac-Swyne stronghold and Harte residence

What it said · 84 of 84 words

Coming through the Doe Castle area, this was the stronghold of the Mac-Swyne-na-Doe, built on a rocky point with sea on three sides and defended by drawbridge and portcullis. For centuries it was a bone of contention, the scene of bloodshed and siege, before passing to the Hartes of Culmore. General Harte, a hero of Seringapatam, lived there in Oriental splendour until he died in a fall down the main staircase. The castle was purchased in 1866 by Stewart of the adjoining Ards estate.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 25 · source

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The Starved Lovers of Doe Castle and the Phantom Skiff

What it said · 85 of 85 words

You're nearing Doe Castle in Donegal. MacSweeny's daughter Eileen fell for Turlogh Oge against her father's wishes. He was captured along with his retainers and starved to death in the castle. When the bodies were carried out, Eileen saw her lover and never recovered. She was found dead on top of one of the castle towers. Fishermen say the spirits of the pair still haunt the bay, and by moonlight a phantom skiff may sometimes be seen skimming the waters with the two ghostly lovers.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Castles of Ireland: Some Fortress Histories and Legends (), Adams, Constance Louisa, 1870-1959; O'Brien, Lucius Henry, 1842-1913 [Illustrator], Project Gutenberg #62488, Chapter 30 · source

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Local history and folklore at Creeslough

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You're coming through Creeslough here in Donegal. A traveller once stopped at Harkin's Hotel in this town and met the proprietor, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, who was richly knowledgeable in local history and folklore. He had been factor to the murdered Earl of Leitrim, and was the only person — man, woman or child, the record says — whom the Earl trusted fully. He was also a keen sportsman with a naturalist's knowledge of the wild creatures of his native county. From his conversation the author gathered many legends and much valuable information, especially about the birds nesting on Horn Head. The proprietor recalled a time when the rare pine marten still haunted the woods around Mr. Olphert's mansion near Gortahork, and could still show a badger's earth in the wooded banks of Ards. The author had no time to seek out that badger, and wrote that he could not have found it in his heart to disturb so peaceful an inhabitant of the pleasant countryside.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Haunts of the eagle : man and wild nature in Donegal (1924), Fox, Arthur William, Internet Archive hauntsofeagleman00foxa, Chapter 24 · source

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Balfour's narrow-gauge railroad at Creeslough for poor relief

What it said · 39 of 39 words

You're coming through Creeslough now. Balfour is building a narrow-gauge railroad here, to give employment to the poor of the district. The road goes on toward Dunfanaghy, and the driver called the long day's run "a great day's work."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from On an Irish jaunting-car through Donegal and Connemara (1902), Bayne, Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble), 1844-1924, Internet Archive onirishjauntingc00bayn, Chapter 1 · source

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Trout streams around Creeslough

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Around Creeslough here in Donegal, there are several trout streams worth knowing: the Duntally, Favmore, Carnamorna, Gortnalock, Shanowen, and Owenwee. All of them can be fished from the bank. Sea-trout run into the Duntally and the Favmore. The same flies work here as are recommended for the Lennon River tributaries and Mulroy Bay sea-trout.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 26 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Masiness

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Right here at Masiness in Donegal is Colmcille's holy well, marked as Turras Columbkille on the 1905 map. In 1936, Ó Muirgheasa wrote that stations were still being made there, about a mile from Massinass School.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG026-046---- · source

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Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Masiness

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Right here at Masiness there's nothing left to see, but in the 1840s two stones marked this spot, one upright and one lying flat. Locals called them Dermot and Grania's Bed and believed they stood at opposite ends of a grave about 7.5 feet long. The upright stone was about 4 feet high and stood at the west end, while the fallen stone had supposedly once stood upright at the east end. By 1902 every trace had been cleared away. It may have been a megalithic tomb, but the evidence was never enough to confirm it.

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Burial ground, Clonmore

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Right here at Clonmore in Donegal there's a burial ground. It's a D-shaped area, 24.3 metres east to west and 16 metres north to south, a low level platform up to .6 metres above the surrounding ground. It was originally enclosed by a stone wall about 1.5 metres wide.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG026-017---- · source

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Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Ballymore Upper

What it said · 166 of 166 words

Right here is a court tomb at Ballymore Upper. It's a much-disturbed structure with a court at the east leading to a roofless gallery about 8.5 metres long. Two old field banks run across it, and a grass-grown mound survives around it, rising about 2 metres at its highest. One stone of the northern arm of the court and four of the southern arm still stand in place, the tallest about 1.3 metres high. The gallery entrance is marked by two jambs, and at the back, two sidestones and a backstone survive. In August 1991, Seán Ó Nualláin found the rear of the gallery had been disturbed and rescued two sherds of pottery lying exposed under one of the large corbels. One was a rim sherd of coarse ware, the other a body sherd from a separate vessel. Fagan's account shows the structure was then much as it is today. Local information once suggested there had been a full court here, but that cannot be confirmed.

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Faugher House

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Here at Faugher in Donegal stand the ruins of a fortified house built about 1670 to 1700, possibly incorporating the remains of an earlier house from about 1611. Tirlagh Roe O'Boyle was granted lands totaling 2,000 in the Barony of Kilmacrennan in 1611, and by 1619 he had, as the record puts it, "built a good bawn and a house of lime and stone in which he with his family dweleth." In 1622 the house was described as "of clay and stone rough cast with lime, 48 ft long, 25 ft broad and 13 ft high," with three stone houses and a timber house adjoining, all thatched. O'Boyle forfeited the lands after a failed rebellion in July 1642, when a thirty-gun Spanish frigate carrying Eoghan Roe O'Neill and a hundred Irish veterans anchored off nearby Doe Castle. The lands were later granted to Sir John Stephens and sold to the Wrays in 1700, who probably rebuilt the house between 1670 and 1700. It was abandoned after 1708 when the Wrays built a new mansion at nearby Ards, and was already shown in ruins on a map of the area by the late 1770s. The house sits within a defensive bawn with rounded battlements, gun loops, and flanking corner towers, almost certainly the one O'Boyle built before 1619.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 40901601 · source

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Sessiagh Lough brown-trout fishing

What it said · 76 of 76 words

You are coming up on Sessiagh Lough in Donegal. This is a brown-trout fishing lough, and it fishes best from early July until the end of September. A boat and a boatman can be had at ordinary charges, and the watcher of the water lives right on the banks. The best drifts are quite easily fished from the banks, owing to the formation of the bottom of the lake, though a boat is useful at times.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 27 · source

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Mass-rock, Sandhill

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Right here at Sandhill is a mass-rock, a stone altar where mass was celebrated during Penal times, from the 1690s to the 1750s. A plaque now marks the site and public access has been provided in recent years.

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graveyard/cemetery, Kill (Dunfanaghy)

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Right here beside the road is the graveyard at Kill, three graveyards really, in use from about 1760 to about 1940. A paupers' graveyard to the west holds the unmarked graves of people who died at Dunfanaghy Union Workhouse during the Great Famine. The workhouse was built by George Wilkinson at a cost of 4,350 pounds for the buildings and 855 pounds for the fittings, designed for 300 inmates, and first took admissions on the 24th of June 1845. During the Famine it was grossly overcrowded with outbreaks of dysentery and fever, and it is likely that hundreds if not thousands of individuals are buried here. The paupers' graveyard also has simple iron crosses marking the graves of strangers drowned at sea. In 1818 a storm swamped a Scottish fishing fleet working locally, and of over 100 boats only one made it safely to port. The crews were lost, their bodies washing up around the harbour over the coming days, and at least some were buried here. A rubble stone platform built against the outside of the east boundary wall was a penal mass station from about 1750. The Ordnance Survey Name Book of about 1905 records that clergymen stood on this platform when officiating at burials to collect death offerings. The earliest legible gravemarker in the complex commemorates Neal Tuohy, dated July 1778. The Church of Ireland section has mainly twentieth-century gravemarkers, the earliest from 1881.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 40901521 · source

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The Dunfanaghy Workhouse and Famine Museum

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Right here is the site of the Dunfanaghy Union Workhouse, now a famine museum. What stands is a pair of gatehouses built around 1841 to 1845, designed by George Wilkinson, the architect appointed to the Poor Law Commissioners in Ireland in 1838. Wilkinson was responsible for all 130 workhouses built across Ireland, and another 30 during and after the Famine years. The workhouse was planned in 1841 to hold 300 people. The buildings were estimated at 4,350 pounds, with fittings and fixtures at 855 pounds. The land was bought in 1842 from Alexander Stewart of Ards House, who owned the town and the surrounding country. Some accounts say the workhouse was finished on the 15th of March 1841, but others say building began in 1844 and the first admissions came on the 24th of June 1845. The pair of gatehouses may have served as separate admissions blocks for men and women. A fever hospital stood to the south of the site. This was one of seven workhouses in Donegal, the others at Donegal Town, Ballyshannon, Glenties, Inishowen, Letterkenny and Milford. The workhouse closed in 1922 and the site was left abandoned. The main building was demolished around 2000. Modern houses went up on the ground behind, partly built from salvaged stone. The gatehouses were joined by a linking block in 1995 and reopened as a heritage centre.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 40807008 · source

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Wild Atlantic Way 1/8 Inishowen and Fanad: Muff → Dunfanaghy

The drive in numbers

How the narrator kept up

What it said, in order

Muff Garda Síochána Station

Ritual site - holy well, Three Trees

U.S. Naval Air Station Lough Foyle Ireland

Children's burial ground, Carrowkeel (Carrowkeel Ed)

Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Carrowkeel (Carrowkeel Ed)

Castle - unclassified, Whitecastle

Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Drung (Redcastle Ed)

Children's burial ground, Ballyargus

Burial ground, Drung (Redcastle Ed)

Castle - unclassified, Carrickmaquigley

Cooly Graveyard

Moville as great artery of emigration

Ritual site - holy well, Ballynally

Burial ground, Bredagh Glen

Burial ground, Moneydarragh

Burial ground, Dristernan

Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Laraghirril

The Corpse-Roasters of Inishowen

Ritual site - holy well, Culdaff

Penal Mass station, Muff (Culdaff Ed)

Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Templemoyle

Mass-rock, Templemoyle

Ritual site - holy well, Templemoyle

Malin Hall, most northerly gentleman's residence

Malin Hall

Unknown wreck, Five Fingers Strand

Children's burial ground, Ardmalin

Malin Signal Tower

Ritual site - holy well, Drumaville (Culdaff Ed)

The Donagh Bell Found Hidden at Cean-na-Clug, Priestown

Colgan's birthplace at Priestown near Carndonagh

Chalice from Convent of Donegal preserved at Carndonagh

Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Churchland Quarters

Children's burial ground, Carndoagh

Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Rashenny

Drowning of Clonmany Fishermen in Binion Bay Storm

Surviving Celtic storytelling tradition in Clonmany and Malin

Priest surrounded by fairies between Clonmany and Ballyliffan

The Pedlar's Dream of Treasure at Kinnagoe

Burial ground, Kinnagoe

Bishop Maginn's death and burial at Cockhill church, Buncrana

Marriage banquet at Buncrana leads to capture of Hart, Governor of Culmore

Dr Maginn's Cottage at Buncrana, a hub for Catholic Ireland

Herd-boy silenced after entering fairy dwelling near Buncrana

Raid burns town and castle of Buncrana during O'Doherty's revolt, 1608

Buncrana Castle: ruins and 1716 rebuilding by Sir John Vaughan

murder of Andrew Allen

The murder of Dr. Hamilton and Mrs Waller near Fahan

St. Mura's convent founded at Fahan

Death of Fothadh na Canoine of Fahan recorded

Castle - tower house, An Machaire Beag (Tc Fathain)

Niel Garv takes refuge at Magherabeg abbey

O'Doherty castles around Lough Swilly

Sir Cahir O'Dogherty's castle at Burt

Castle - unclassified, Castleforward Demesne

Castle - motte, Castleforward Demesne

Barach's mansion on the shore of Moyle

Burial ground, Ardnaditian

RIC barracks, Manorcunningham

Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Errity

Tromra Castle, O'Brien's Clare residence

Battle of Farsetmore

Wolfe Tone captured after naval battle off the Rosses

Wolfe Tone Recognised at Letterkenny Breakfast

Donegal County Museum

graveyard/cemetery, Letterkenny

Ritual site - holy well, Drumnahough

Hugh Rothwell's Bog Plantation at Sylvan Park

Battle of the Thorn near Letterkenny, 1567

Kirke establishes relief garrison near Rathmelton

Salmon leaping at Drummonaghan waterfall

Ramelton's 'Irish Iniquities' lecture anecdote

Ritual site - holy well, Craigmaddyroe Far

Ritual site - holy well, Craigmaddyroe Far

Flight of the Earls

Kidnapping of Red Hugh O'Donnell at Rathmullan