JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY AN'"flGJUl'"flES OF ~ CO, DONEGt\l A BRIEF REPORT ON ANTIQUITIES IN THE COUNTY DONEGAL "JN the County Donegal antiquities seem to have been little respecte?: as of the earlier churches and castles only traces remam. Megalithic structures such as dall:ans, or standing-stones, etc., have, howeyer, often escaped injury; but not always; microlithic structures, such as cahers and cairns have suffered severely, while most of the clay structures such as li-ss and tuaim have been levelled. Any lusca or artificial caves found, have almost invariably been ripped up or closed again; whilst bronze or other metallic implements are sold to the ~melter, and flint implements are eithef thrown away or made into 'fire strikers.' The latter seem not to be uncommon in the county, but formerly they were looked for, in order to be used as gun-flints, or for rubbing cattle that were supposed to be fairystricken; now, however, they are difficult to get, as, if inquired after, the natives seem to suspect you of an intention to overreach them; or they superstitiously believe that parting with them may bring ill-luck to themselves. 0 G. H. KI!N:AJHlAN, M.R.I.A., Hon. Local Sec., Co. Donegal, t.c> Royal H. & A.A.I., 1885/1800. Kinahan's .iRepiort" was confined mainly to the antiquities in the Ba.rony · of Kilma.crenan. 'I1he follo1Wing is a summary of his ldsts as published in the Journals of the Roy·a1 Society of Antiquaries (Ireland) during the years 1885/9' and :members o'f the Donegal Historical Soclety are inVited to prepare silriilar lis.ts fox the othe·r baronies in the eounty or to augment this list by detecting; omlissitons or adding sUipplementary inrformaition . to Kina<han's record.s.-1Editor. ORJDINAINlC!E S'HIEET 46. GLEl'N'CIAIRIN. In broken ground to N.E. o'f Gle:n,earn House remains of a badly defaced K~sroean which may have been the clhamlber oif the cairn from Wlhence the place derives its name. ~TON. Ruined cihurch wihich M'PartLand, Stattstfcaz Su.rJ:lel/I, claimed was built as a Fra.nctsea,n mdnastery by the O'Donnells. Local tradition maintains that it is a ·post-Reformation building and that the window in tihe east gable was ta:keii f.rom 121 the chn:r~h in the island oif Augthni:slh. N.iE. of the church ·is the site of O'IDonnell!'s ca,stle. AU:GHNIISH. To the W. af Berglrrls Bay, on a rise of ground, is a cairn. On . the island to the N .IE. was a very anctenit cihurch and graveyard ("the la.st •remains of whieh. have been ·Lately removed," 1886). FIOIRT STEWART. ·Ruins of a. fort on the shores of Lough Swilly "said to have been buUt by the Ste;wart,a Wlhen they ciame over w1th Cromwell"' · (?). A little to N,E. is a standing-stone (Dallan).
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