JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ·accommodated in the •town, whilst O'Donnell parleyed with him by means of messengers going to and from ibetween the baile (town) and the dun (fort). It may also be noted that in Torla.ch. an Fhiona's day, as' in ,O'Connor's, Murvagh, was a place for· good drinking.'' NIALL 0 DOMH:N\AILL, Members who were the guests of the Misses Atkinson at Gavangarden, !Ba.llyshannon (Autumn, 1949) may remember that the Two Mile Stone antLquities have a marked. similarity with the Murvagh site described 1a:bove, i.e., the baile and the dun (See 0. Davie,s, J .R..S.A.T., Vol. 72') and this site stands very !prominently over the R1v;er Erne and Magh nRine (Edioor). Mr. O iDomhnaill's ref,erence to Reelin recalls 1the unsolved location of Ballybeit, the ·hame of Sir Eoghan ·· O'!Gallagher (Maguire History of the Diocese o:f IRaphoe), Ballykit, the home of iDonnell O'iGallagher, O'Donnell's ehief counsellor (U.J.A. version of1 a description of County Donegal', circa l6Q'7_,) and iBaUykill in the Oalendars of State Papers. The site wa!:i four miles, up 1the Riv.er Finn, from iDrumbo Abbey (?) and four miles from .'Barnesmore. Biallykerrigan would :fiit this description and it is in the ReeUn hasin. Further information requested. (iEditor). H. THE O'CANNONS OF CINEAL EOGHAIN "It is known that a family of A{!annane was in Scotland in tbie early 16ith oentury. A Wi.gton parish record dated 19th March, 1723, refers to the giving of '3s to· John Cannon from Ireland.' "Until the Industrial Revolution the Cannans or Cannons owned much property in Kirk·cudibrighshire, and there1 were also Cannons in the Isle of Man during these years, and I am anxious to find .a link between these families and the old Irish family in Co. ([)onegal."- Donald V. Cannon, 3 Kenwood Gardens, Ilford, Essex. .·200 III-Co. Donegal in the Days of Napper Tandy and Wolfe Tone: INFORMATION WANTED Ca)I have ascertained since the publication of my biographical sketch of "Manus 'a Phice" that the name Of the iblacksmith who made the plkeheads for.Captain O'Donnell's local Company of the United Irishmenwas Sean O'Friel, of Goal, Kilmacrennan. He went "on the run'' after the arrest of !Manus and continued to elude ·'the authorities for :the best part of a year, I would be ·grateful 1to any of your readers who can supply additiona;l illlfior:mation con1cernin1g Manus, the Glassagh O~DonneU:s, and .the "98 period generally. RJUPERT 0 COCiH!LAllNN. An Casan Caolt Mm (Beannaid, Co. Dhuin n.a nGall, (1b) Wol!fe Tone's son ma;riI'ied Catherine Saimpson, daughter of Sampson, the United Irishman, and Miiss Trench tn her "Wrays of Donegai and other \Families," hints that Sampson was related to ~he ·vaughans, Brookes and aarts who owned Doe Castle. Miss R., Ja;cob, 17 Charle:ville Road, !Rahmines', Dublin, is writing a ·biography 01' Tone'~ wife and would welcome information relative to her daughter-in-law's family. It m.1'ght be well to point out 1that itJhe .time has come to dispel the cl.oak of obscurity whieh surrounds the following Doneigalmen who were actively associated with Tone and the Society of United Irishmen:---iEdward Garey of Greencastle, R:ev. Francis Dill of Manorcunnin:gham, Oliver Bond of St. Johnston and the Pattersons of the Thorn, Letter- ~enny. Bond's widow lived f.or a tim~ at Buncrana and Dr. Mac Nevin, a ·Galway man, in exile, claimed that his nearest living velatives resided at Killybegs, WhQ were they? (Editor).
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