JOURNAL OF THE'· COUNTY !>ONEGAL""ltISTORICAL SOCIETY Father Walter Heg.arty· wr:oite as foUowsi:-"I am sorry I cannot be at Mr. Hulgh Deecy's lec.tu:re ·on Drumlholm as X tbi.Jlik the1re is a bdlg field ,for inquiry i:n t'll,a.t area.· Tu-om the 1836 Oridnance Slurve;y I block out one disitxict whiich p~ovidies qruerles: 1, Rath.tinny; 2, MuUana.soJe; 3, Rosi11y; 4, Murv.a;gh. ''l_,iSt. Ad!arrnnan was the son of Ron.an, son of Tlnne. It hias been surmised by Reeves; etc., tha1t the Sain1t was born or reared a;t Drumholm. At Raithinny is the fort, I take it, of his grandfather. Is th.M fort still undis:- turro;ed and shoul,d it be a Na:tional Monuim:ent? Tlhte O'Tlnney fiamily, or Muin.tear Tinne, had a bal:llilboe-in par1t\'.Jc:u~a;I1~11nd, . 'Seemin!gly a quarter of la.nd--th .general-oif the chur!ch land in Raiphoe parish. This, I think, would corn~ to them as fbe:ing of the same stock as St. Adamnan and friom one Tinne caJled aifter the oriJgJ.nal Ti·nne (Se·e Simmington Civil Survey, p. 42, and Inqru]Si:tionsi). "2.>---:MullanasoJ.e-Thie siha.pe of the well. Is that well sti11 to _the fore? Note the peculfar s·h<aped fort. 3.--Rossmy..._see Legend of St. Cia;irne:aich. We trace him at LifI01~d and at Cluain Maine and here is a third pla1cie connected with him. 'The afor·2said Ela:rc ciame to Cairnea.ch in peni1te111ce. . . . . St. Clairnea.ch was in the dis1tri1ct of Ross OiUgh , . . . ( trhcr0) he.r sipir:i>t pa.is.sect to glory. Cairnea.eh 1bless:ect that spot, and hence its name il..s Ceall Ea.r:ca; and Oairne.ach 11eft lB.:s:hop. Criodan in chrarge of it.' Is the fort Ln R.ossilly (cal:led) Ceall Earca or is there a catdragh or old gra¥e,y.ard in the tow:nJJand? «See Todd's "Irish Version of Nennius" C. 11). "4.-:-l:Dhere are constant references in the O'Donnell poems to Ma.gh Murbhai1gb. Is this the Murviagh of Drumholm? - MR. DEERY'S ADDITIONAL NOTES RATIDNNY. The:re . is a fort here S1till to be seen on a hill on Mr. Jose~h Glarkie's f.axm. The hlll is known ,by the peqple around as '"Kate's. Hil~"__.:.the name pr.oib1albJ.y of some former owner. lt is quite n€'ar Bridg·e·tOiwn Railway Sit1ation. A corresiponident sug1gests that the toWnl1and takes its name from Tinne whose son, Ronan, was tihe, fat:he:r of Sit. Ad.a:mnan. There is no lo·cal tradition to this efie·ct, and the old fort has nevier been looked UI>On as of more impor:tanoe than any of the others. on the hills around. The mona.stery of .Drumholm, which stood, in the centre of the ~esen:t Protestant graveyard, a.t Mullina,cross, was ded:ica,ted to Sit. A:damna.n, and is the only spo.t in the par:i.Sih which we know to be associated with hJs. name. If he .was born or reared in the p.aris'h we do not k.now where. The termination tinny is more likely derived from Teine (1fire) and is found ciommon in many t01W11lands throughout Ireland. It is thought that', festive fires were Ugihted at those p1aees. of it. (See r-eference to ruins of an old mill on the boundaries of BallinaganIV'.agh, ~654-6.,-JEc~) Tihe :place cannot ibe connected, in any way, with a well. In fact, welLs are very sc:arce hexe. There is a iort in the town.J.a,nd with no v:ery notkeahle featurie aibout it. ItOSSILL.Y. 1S!ome of the old pe01ple, most of th.em dead, used to talk aibout a b.lshop bur~ed at RJossilly - piaSl.Slllbly Bishoip Criod.an who was le:f't .in charige of Ceall Earca where Earc came to Ca.irnea.eh in penitence and, acco:rdJ.ng to the legend, "her sipirit pas.sied to g1ory." This spot, Gean Elarca, cannot be pioint- €d out by anybody .in Rossmy to-day. The fQTt in the townla.nd is not known bry that name and there ls no appearance o:f a ...graveyard. (A scientific archia1&0.logical survey mi,g'ht rev:eal ~he site of the C·ells a,nd g.rave.s of these ea,: .1y anchori:t-es.--<Ed.) MURVAGH. This se·ems to be th:e· pla~e reierrec. to in th:e OfDonn.ell poems. The northern tip of the townl.and is mainly a plain of sand termi.na1ting in a small MULLINASOLE. wooded island knorwn · as '"Bell's Isle." !Here the Irish word Muilenn for a This end of the townla,nct is only a mile mill is seen in its •anglicised form. Evi- down the Baiy from Donegal Torwn, and dentLy there was a mill someWhere in could be easily seen from the w~ndo,vs the townland, but there js now no _trace of O'Ponnell's Oas'tle on the southe·rn 110
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