JOURN.\L OF 'l'HE COUITT'Y DONEO/\L HlSTORlC/\L S(IC!El'Y. 25 everybody interested in th3 Dunlevy family, and any person interested in a specific branch of the .Letterkenny M'Slweeneys who settled, in the late seventeenth century, outside the town of Sligo. 'Ihe county is well represented in Biographical Anglo-Irish literature, and translations, for we have Father Hogan's "Life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell" from the Irish of O'Ciery, and a full-length translation of Manus· O'Donnell's "Life of Sit. Columcille." We have a very g·ovd memoir of a Penal Day Bishop of ~pihoe in the preface to Clanon Ulic Burke's Edition of "The Sermons of Most Rev. James Gallagher." "The Life and Letters of Stopford Brnoke" appeared in a twovolume edition in 1918. other works of this nature include the "Life of the Rev. James Porter" by Glasson Porter, and the biography , of S~r William M'Arthur, a Mallinhead boy who became Lord Mayor of London. The ecclesiastical histories of the county are a credit to those who compiled them. Heading the list are Dr. Maguire's two volumes "History of the Diocese of Raphoe." [ have already referred to the Presbyterian historian, Lecky, and his works, and it only remains for me to pay tribute to the patient research dispJayed by Canon Leslie in his volumes "Clergy of the !Diocese of .mvphoe" and ·"Olergy of the Diocese of Derry." County Donegal was subjected to many scientific surveys which have now passed into the historical literature of the county. Greatest of these was the Ordnance Survey 'Of 1836 in which John O'Donovan was the spearhead. We -- - -- --:<-·----.,... . ~,...- -, ......:,.- -··- "--- · ...... ---- now have, in the County Library, type·- script copies of his "Ordnance SurveJ" Letters and these are filled with many side-lights on the history and anti' quities of the county as well as illuminating observations on the people and places who attracted .his attention as he passed up and down the county. The Ordnance Survey Office still has the place-name books and field-books of the sappers who followed in his wake and you have a published specimen of their work in the "Souvenir Booklet" of our Oivic Week. We also have Dr. James M'Partland's "Statistical Survey of the County Donegal," which was published early in the last century, and Chichester's "Survey of Innishowen," which appeared in Mason's "Parochial Survey of Ireland." Maynooth Lilbrary has a number of interesting and rare pamphlets of this period which includes Siir Charles Giesecke's "Report to the Royal Dublin Society on the Geological Formations iil C'oUnty Donegal," and dated 1826. John Kelly's work of 1864, "Notes upon the Errors of Geology," has, also, a very interesting secti-on dealing with the geology of County Donegal, and it contains a detailed study of the lime.stone faults -complete with a map of East Donegal. This concludes my preliminary survey of Cb. Donegal in Anglo-Irish Literature and through it I sincerely hope and trust that I may have excited your sympathy and aroused your interest in the work of our Historical Society. It ls my tribute to the ever-changing beauty of the hills and valleys of Donegal and is an inadequate token cf appreciation of the hospitality shown by its people to a stranger who now calls it his home.
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