JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY - bank of the ESke. GustaviUB (G:aven) House. or Rleictory, sold about j.he beHaimi:ltoni, Rector oi: Druimholm in 1666, ginn.jng. of .the ~esent century to an built a. residOOIOO at Lower Murvwgh- Eng.J:i.Sh gentleman, was bU:i1t. ~Ms, bY the northem end .of 1t--.a.t ~ µme. the way, is not near the bOluse erected. <Notice his residellice in Donegal Town t>y Gaiven Hami.l!ton, circa 1666. Tne 1665 He1a.rbh Money Rloll5 and a.J.so his Rev. John Allcock, D.iO., resided in the residence as of Maighralbeg in .the same Glebe House from 1783· .P.o 18'17, so its list., This may have been his: Murvagh age may be recitoned at tmo hundred residence as these townlands are close years, at least. to each oth·er and Murvagh 8«)1P€a.rs on the 16'59 Cenisus and. is :lig\nored, as a THE H~MILT.ONS ()IF TBUMAN, 1665 to1wnland, by the tax collec:tor of lo65.) This townland is nOJw writtr~n He was the ancestor of the present Trummon. There is a Trummon Ea.:-t Oa1pta.in J. S. Ham!ilton and ap1parently .and a Trummon West. There was a the family we:re not then resident at Hamilton f·amily living at Trummon Brownhall, as Triniirtiy Cio'Hege, DUJblin, West up to a:bout the be1gJ.nning of )he and Lord Thomas Folllott are .given in present cenitury and the John Hamilton the Civil Sur~ey 1654-1'6156 as the owners who paid Hear.th Tax in 1665, was t11e of the lainds now embracing the Broiwn- · first o:f the name there; but no relahall demesne. These lands were then (tl!ons:hia> eian be tlia.c~d 1biet;we·en U1is oociurpied by Celtic famiU.es (acordiil11gi to Hamilton aud the Harniltcms who nave the Hearth Money Records of -1665). been connected so long with Brown~1all. The date of the buHding of BrolW'Il!hall, The Hamiltons of Trummon W·est built 1697, give.n in John Hamilton's Sixty the house, at present on th·e tarm, ~ few Yea.l'ls' Experience as an Irish Landlord ye.ars before the Great Flam~ne and would, therefore, seem to be sulbsltlan- named the place Riushbr:ooke. On the tially correct.,.....,,Ed.) farm was Ml old monastery ma!'ik·ed "in The Gle'be lands at Murva;gh and ruins" on an old ma1P daited 1835. the surrounding tO!Willands do not ap- Nothing of 1 t now rema.inis a"nd the pear to have 'been made over to the ig'l'iaveya~d attaicihed to it was ploughed Rectors of Drumho1m in the r·elgn of up about seventy years· a:go by the ocOha:des II. and there is some uncer- c'llJpant Of' thait time. ta.tnty aibout the date when the Glelbe HUGH DiEEiRY. MARIANUS SCOTUS OF DRUMHOLM [From Dr. Magulre's "History of the Diocese of Raphoe "] " . . . . Th:is f1amous scholar has left us his aiuto;gra1pih signature 'Mulrdach Mac Roball'1tiaLgh' or Mllll'ray Magroarty. Dr. Healy, in his brochure on the Four !Maste:rs observes that 'Aidrunnan, the biographer of St. Colrumba, and the ·blessed Mrurlanus Scotus, the oommentaitor, are tiwo Ir.ish schol!ars, whose names are known throuighout all Euroip·e. We haV•e goOd grounds for·believ.ing that they spenit their youth in Drumholm old abbey.' His Annotations on the Epistles of St. Paul were w.ri tten a.t the Aibbey of Fulda, where he resid1ed for ten y;e1ars but he died a.t Mentz in 1086 . . . . . he wias a native of Ballym:a1groa~ty. 'Mr. Hugh Moore, owner of the sl!te on wh.Lch the BlaJlyniagroarty Cihiuroh stood, assures the present writer that he can pod.nit out the e:mct sipot where the secret entrance to the crypt in whiich the Cathach was preserved, was a.ooidents.1.ly ~overed by his .brother, some tJwo . O!l' thiree yeiars ago. This man was ploug'hinlg: the field a.nd, a,t a. paXitH~u~ar point, he noticed thrut a ho11ow sound was e·v:oked while one of the horses was crossin:g what seemed to be a fiagOOV'ered chasm. Haiv:ing . carefully marked the spot, he came next day and removied the s.oil to the depth of eighteen inches, when he encounte~ed a flag oome four or five inches in th1ckne&s and three fee·t square;· He remo¥ed this loose stone without difficulty, and, to his amazement, he saw a sip~1endidly executed, wlnd:inig st:atrease beneath him, w:Mch the suipeJ:"stitious f.e.eling . . . . of the locality prevented him from descending beyond the third step." Aippenddx F. Vol. IiI. P!P. 349-50. 111
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