• JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL . SOCIETY llc fell in love and married. Tmdition wit'h soillig and sihouts of "Weleome back says that on his wedding night he our own brave wee priest.'' Welcome vowed that he would help others to- back, bold Mister Gall;a.gher." wards the goal he himself had fai1'ed to 1 'he Ga.Uaigth·er.s of this s.tocik. have now reach and 50 he founded his r.olle1ge nn di·ed out, 1biut ofis:h1001ts Qf .the branch the .site of an old fo.rt. Tlwo of l1ia. so1,s, · can ·be traced to suclh cel€lbrcated *Pia.trick and EJd!w.ard, ente1re.d iHoly chur1chm€1n as the la1te Most Rev. Dr. Orders and a,s other students came Mulhern, CBishop of D.mmore, and to along soon the frume of his little college Fa.their K:elly, who mlilnistered some spread far beyond the oorufines of .the yeia,rs ago at Convoy. When the last paris\h of stranorlar. lit iis r1e1ated uha:t of the Ga.Uag1her.s died the fail'm be1eiame pupils attended f~om p1ac.eis as f'ar .a common where tihe neigh!JJ.ours grazed a1part a.s Inishowein a1I11d: BallySlh:annon. a.t will. The house w:as ransacked and I must say, however, that the be.sit many vaLuatbles taken, p.ri-oeless books known a1pipiea1r to have .come from the a:n:d manusic.ri!pts w'hi1ch e·sca1ped a,t that little toiwnland of the college itself. In time, were la:tier burned by subs,equent addition to F'atJhers P:atrick and Ed1ward owners who purchia1sed the pJ.ace at a GaUa,g1her we·r.e F'atJheTiS RJolbert and Sh:erH'I's s,ale. It seemed to JJ.e a eusto1rn Miichael Byrne, Father J.oseiph Magee, -amongst tihe peas:antry-...;to burn anyFather McDermott and Fathier iD~ver. thin~ pertaining to reUgiou.s ritua,l: that With tJhe Exce1ption O'f Fathe1r Magee, is any1thing that will burn and is not in who JJ.eciame parish priest O\f Doe, all the custody of the Church. these priests, born and taught in ~the H this fr:agment of local his-tory townla1nd of Balrlinaglaic1k, c~ossed to the should p!l'lompt otfrlers to record tradiNew World. As an old man, Father tiolllS on s~marlar lines it will hav~ Byrne did return. to hts native parish, served the puripose fo1r which it w:as just in time, to preach the first sermon written and the story of Ballina1glack at the opening of Sit. Mary's Clhurch, Colle,ge might al.so be an incentive to Str.anorlar, and now his remains resit in ke,eip close watch on the present s,o rhat the common burial-ground of that those who come a1fter may not have to pari.s'h. rely too muc'h on tradition, when the T<?.ki.ng the fo110!wJn:g traditi:0na,1 story present has become- the past. as a pointer, it iw:ould seem that :a full William J. Doherty (Member). co'm·se of preipara1tion for the prie,st- Ballinagliack. hoed wa1s ip1'ovided at Ba.llina;glac:kt: yoUtng Patrick GalLaigher was ohlilg1ed to work with hands as well as bra1n-for pove1rty was the common lot of his kind. He sipent the day 'before his O'rdination digging ridges for potatoes. The spot is still pointed out, but no1w is merely 1piart o,f a wh:in-h'ill. Siaid Pat (junior) to his feJfow-lia'bourer: ""Dhe morrow night I h<>pe you wi11 be calling me Mister Gallagher" (the term "Father" was not then used e:x,cepit in ConfeiSssion) "and I'll be expe'Cting a welcome from yous all-mind you." Next nig.llt the yo~ng hope'ful was met re:tur:ning fmm hlS s:uc:ciess1ful visit to the B:i.shorp, *(a) Sir Eoin O'GiaHagher's grandson ~~es t~Tufiatbal, lived at Ballin:a1gla.ck rrn,.g- e · rst half of the 17·th o"ntury md . the late Dr. Magufr.e, History ~of the . oces~ of ~hoe claimed that the GalIa;ghers, ment10nedi by Mr. Doherty were dku:echt.·t descendants olf the Elimbethan mg . .. tot(b) Dtllring the Plenal Dacvs it was cus- ~ary for students to be raisea to the pr~e~thood before ;go~ng to conitin:ental colleges to comp1lete ·the!lr .studies. (Editor) .H6 No. 3 COUNTY D·ONECAL ORD·NANCE SURVEY MSS. In the Library of Royal Irish Academy The .following is a hand-Ust of the Ordnance SuTvey Mssi. refa.ting to C:ounty Donegal and noiw in the Ubra.r'y of the Rloyal Irislh Academy, 19, Dawoon Sit., Dublin:'-' O'nonovan Letters. 1 Vol. of 400 pp (a,wrox.) wi:th 3 large ma:ps folded in. Copies of ,the Lett•ers. we,re made by the late FabheT Michael O'Flan1na1gian and the Oounty Vibrary, Lifiord, posiSess.es one. Extracts rel!ating to Clounty Donegal from Colgan, Four Masters, etc.; copies of Inqui:sliition.s and traici!Ilgs of old maips relating to County <Don,e/g.al'. Vol. l, 3119 pp, Vol IIT., 3:12 PrrJ1• Indie:x Vol. 187 pip, Ordnance Survey Boxes Nos. 22 and 23. Box 22 conita[ns 26 memoirs and Box 23 conta·ins 27 memoirs relati:ni~ to
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