40 JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY. occupation as a teacher, wen' to G~asgow and entered on a mercantile career. He wrote poems in €'arly life, his firs,t appearing when he was th'.rteen years old, in Smyth's Belfast Alimanack." Since tihen he has written for Irish and Sco~ch (sic) vapers and his name is familiar to readers of the Belfast and Derry journals. He is :ncluded in A. G. Murdoch's 1and D. H. E!dward's collect'ons of S:::ottish poetry, but he is an ardent lrh:hman and wr'.tes chiefiv upon Ir.'sh themes, thougib. he h!as been living rni.ny years in Gi.asgow He was for a £hort t'.me sub-editor of '~he Derry Journal,' p ev'ous to settling i.n Gla,gow. Some of his s'.lngs have been set to music by Du.gald 1Vfac Fadyen, the poet, and others. He intends to collect. and publish his poems at no di~•'. ant date.'' No. 3. (D. J. O'Donoghue "'It:e Poets of Irei:and" 1892.) Fnrt[1er informat~on request ed. Isaac Butt wrote a tihree-vo1ume novel en.titled "The Gian of Barnes More." Are there any c:p!es-of thi.s work in County D)llfg'al? Editor. No. 4. Wh:it has beccme of the Baronial MaIJ6 and Oaunty Maps wh1'.ch were engraved and published by the County Doneg>al Grand Jury during the eighteenth century? No. 5. Pr:nting in Letterkenny. An oi.d 'ssue of "The Irish Book L'.lver" complimented the work being done (circa 1916) by the Federal Press and bv thz nrom'.:l'ters of "An Gnnn,'' 1916/21. Wha:t -WeTe the publ.ications of the former and the contents of the 1.a.tter? "Glenswiliy." No. 6. The Iate Very Reverend Oanon Maguire (the historian) once pub~'shed an article on t.he O'Gal1ag1hers of Tirconail. lt may have been prin'.ed in the "Derry Journal." Has any member knowledge of its whereabouts? PLACE-NAMES COMWSSION. BEWARE! Curraghomongan. O.S. sheets 66 and 77. A large portion of this townland is corn" posed of a round hill which overlooks 'Tmnplemongian" in t<he townl:and of Dooish on the oppos1ite s'.de of the ruver F1inn <See "Isaac Butt: Hi.s early . haunts and his carc·er," p. 9). Like "'I1he Glelbe," in Dooiish, Curraghomongan was formocly in 1h2 hands of the Deans of Raphoe. Local us1ge (1947)-Curraghamoan; Deeds (1845) Curraghamoan; Mss. Survey in the County Library, L'fford (1837) Curraa:homoniian; Deeds (1789l Curragh()mongan. Hearth Money RoHs (16165) Curraghmean; Civil ::>tu vcy 06to) Crcgh O Moyne; Inquisition 0630) "Tawna,foris containeth Ta1wrnaforis, 'Ir'.ant2keele, and Curraghomanya.n . . . • aJias Corrnmungan. The nearer the source the clearer the stream. (p. C'elt), THE EARLDOM 01:<' TllWONAIL "l have sent over Clon McClaffrey McDonnell, nex>'.-of-kin to the pret~nded Elarl uf UsconeI (sic) a.nd so nearest to any,thing that can be claimed by any of t:he way of O"Donnell. He has alway;; been a Prntes,tant and is loy1al. He might weII be made a member of H.M. Band of f<ens~oners." (F1alk1and to Privy aouncil, June, 1626, Cl.S.P.I.l "I am glad that you h:ave provided for Conn O'Donnell and Hugh O'R,orke, as I rcques1ted. Their good posit;on in Engla.nd will have a go·cd effect here, a> people 1Jhought they would be lost men and imprisoned for life." (]bid, July, 1626) Wlas he the son of Red Hugh's. h!aHbrotiher? Cbuld he have been the Con O'DonnelI, Titulado of Ba11ykeITig0.n (1659); and of .A,ltnapaste (parisn of Kilteevogue), 1665 (?) IN MEMORY OF A GREAT SCHOLAR COUNTY DONEGAL MONUMENTS To the Editor of the "Derr)· Journal" Dear Sir-It is very pleasing to see the enl;glh.tened sp-irit shown by tJhe Donegal County Council in their taking advantage of the Nat'.onal Monuments l\ct, 1930, and proceeding to look after the preservat,ion of the ancient monuments of the county. Flor its size, County Donegal ~s not particularly rich in such monuments, wlhioh is all the greater reason why thooe t:Pat survive should be pres.erved.
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