JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 11 Clarey. There is no need tp repeat. that sad stQry as jjt is we1f known to young and old. ' Ai young man is compelled to kill the informer who has betra1yed those · who took part with him in a senseless assassina;tion. That young man pays the extreme penailty, and becomes the sulbjeet of a song which is still f,requent1y heard: My mime is Pat O'Donnell, I'm a nati.ve of Donega.l, I am, you know, a deadly foe to traitors one and all. For the shooting of James Garey, I lie in LJ)ndon town, And on the dr.ead\f1ul scaffold my Ufe I must lay down. Tiime does not permit us to dwell on the many associations of Cloghaneely and Tlooy, the legen<:liary tale& . ?f Fomorians and Nemidii,ans, and the division of the territory by COlumba, Dulbhl;ihaich, ~onan and Beaigla.och for the spreading of the faith on the isliands and main~Land. We cannot, however, pass over the harrowing episode connected with Tory. Ai:fter the abortive relbellion of. Cahir O'Doher,ty in 1608, a remnan·t of the insurgents followed Sean Mac Mha.ghnuis Og OUonnell: to Tory. The English, undler Sir Henry FoHtot and ClalJ)tain Gore, ha~ing hunted and slalin the fugitives on the mainland, burned au the boats, set guards on ·the shore and invested the garrison on Tury. Ac•cording to the a:bominaible praJCtice, which they had been in the habit of adopting, the lives of a few were promised on oond!i:tion tha1t the heads of so many of the insur1gents were handed over. One cannnt think without a feeling of horror a:t the callous 1butc:hery th:rut marked this last episode of the rebe'lllion. L~t us now wlthdrarw from the gloomy shiaide, and look at It.he ltght that relieves the pic1ture. The "Crulbach" is a very popular song. The CrUlbiaich was the name of a cow that hJad !been bought, it is said, !by Eamonn O Dulbhgain, ..of Tory. The cow disappeared, and Eamonn's .searrch f,or his cow was made the theme of a hiumourous song': .(\ll L<i cu.c.1'() All c11U.bc.c 50 Co11A1t'l, niott C05C.1L ri fO'OAI\ ll.i rec.'11. 'S nio11 t.e15 rtre bu1·11feAc le hoc11.c.r, AC . curhc.1'0 .c. l'>e1t m11t1 uut. r1A:11. nio11l'> f'A.'IM d rec.t. -0.11' An 01le<i0n 5Ul1 t11~.c.lt. ri Att .c.1r 50 c:f11 m611, 'S ue111 uc.ome ll4c 5co1rcp1'i ri All c:u11Ar 5o n5LAnfA1'6 ri c:1mccc.ll S.c.ot 'Oot'.Mll''• b' e111lS ~.c.molln 0 'Out'15A1t1 'n.d tear<.1.m, 1r 'O'f'1c.r11u1 s c.i 'Ot:ec.cA•l'.l .d t'l6, l1u1'111c.u 50 ttc.IJ 1 ffifn <.1.' C~"':'OA1S, n6 1t1 lmr Do fmne u.i comA111. 'Oe111 'OdOllle m.i cue.it> rf 50 CttOIC Sllse MC b.c.osc.t. 'Oi p1Uec.u nior m6, 116 c:<i Co11m.c.c llu.c.'O ueJ.n.c..ril cu1111-0.1S 'r 5u11 c,1'5e c:J. c1101ce.c.nn nA bo. Cormac Ruadh, of CroMy, was suspected, because there was a party gathel'ed there that oould keep a bishop in conversation while the pot kept singing on the fire: lr uonA .c. ct.c.01u me mo tu11.c.r-.c.n r1U1Jc.t nJtt j.'.6.5 c11wt 1n mo rc:u.c.1c On Lmnn1'0 'nonn rtti'O t'>un n.i. le1ce, 'r 50 C1101c Sllse cu15 Co111mc.c lluc.t> t>t cJ1tL1u111 'n.c. d,11e .c,nn, tucc: c:e~5AJt'C, 'r niott ril6tt t.eo-r.c.n m.c.111JA'6 na bo ComneocJ..u r1.i.n com.114''6 l-e ne.i.rboi;, 'r c.n poc:A .c.11 An c:e1n1u i;.it:>Jl'l. ceo1L. We now come to Doe Castle. The Mac Suilbhnes• came to Fa.nad in the l31th centufy. One of these, Domhmll Mor, Claime to Doe in 1360. The . last of the Mac Suibhnes' Cif Doe wa.s Maol Muire an Bhia.,ta Bhuidhe, who With Niall Garfbh, took the side of the English. He was ndt, however, allowed to remain in posse~t:m of his estaites. 'He was a .proud man, and rejected. with indi!gnation the suit of Turlog'11 Og 1J30yile for the hrand of his daughter, Eileen. Turliogh lived at Faugher, and the w:alls of. hls residence may sttU:l be seen on the right-hand side of the road as one approarches Port na B11a1gh from Creeslough. With haughty pride, he says: "Albide, at Faugner by the sea; for you'll never wed the daughter of Maol Muire an Bh1ata Bhuidhe." O'BOyle perSist;ed in seeing Eileen, but Maol Muire !became aware of their sec- .ret meetings.. iHe ambushed, seized, and eventually s<lew the unfortuna1~e O'.Boyle, or allowed him to die of hunrger in .a dungeon. When the corpse was being Cionsigned to the earth Eileen, from the tower of the ,castle, recognised the fe1atures of her lover. She died of grief, hut a baliled state.<> that she threw herself in Jriantic dismay from the castle iba,ttlements. Moving southrwards, we come to Gartan, tfie 'birthplace of Oollimcille. This was the scene of a heart.rending ~peetacle in 1862, when Stewart, the landlord, evicted 125 ~nants to be shipped
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