.TOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY herty Mss. . . . . . he will find it in the Common Place Book into which he has copied an ithe Irish. poems on Aileach, Temiur etc." (Sept. 30, 1835). THE MacLAUCHLINIS ".... Saw the Reverend Mr. McLoughlin, P.P., of Muff, Burt and 'Inch a very intelligent and civil man who takes a great interest in our work. The name Uisge Chaoin, which the natives understand to mean light water has been derived from a holy well situated not far from the Chapel, the water of which on being weighed was found 1to be "the lightest in Ulster". Near the modern Roman Catholic Chapel stands the gaible and a part of the side walls of the Capella of Uisge Chaoin and around them a small grave yard, in which the grave stones exhibit the names of the principal Septs of Inishowen. I was moved by various emotions upon viewing this grave yard which encloses the ashes of Prince Eogan the first Christian convert in Innishowen, and of fifty generations of his descendants; and these emotions were heightened by viowing t h e nrincely figure of MacLou!thlin. the eldest branch of his descendP nts. who is now the actual possessor of the o~d grave yard and of the field in which the celebrated Uisge Chaoin or Clarifont springs". (August27, 1835). "Poor YlacLoughlin, who wmte the article on Burt Castle and the Greenan, died last spring of the cholera, as did his brother a few days after him. They were both classical teachers, and the eldest not 23 years old." (Sept. 27, 1835). "We are now in the capifal of Fa.naid . . . . Though Inishowen is .divided from it only by a narrow arm of the sea . . . , the natives look upon themselves as a different people and speak of the Inishonians as a debased and demoralised people. And yet the 240. men of Innisrtowen, are of the two, the m o r e estimable," (RathmuUan 30 Aug., 1835). · "The inhabitants of Fanaid have gotten the name of being a rude people, and for that reason the cftizens of Rathmu1len (which was anciently the Capital of rFanaid) deny that they are themselves Fanaidmen." (Hathmullen, 30 Aug., 1835). "We crossed (Mulroy Bay) and proceeded Southwards to the City of Carrickart, where we procured a comfortless lodging in the best house which that Great Town can boast of, a thatched house. a storey and a half high .... we .slept feverishly all night, for a broken pane admitted the cold breeze. (Dunfanaghy Sept. 5, 1835). "I am v·ery anxious to visit the fertile island of Tory, the inhabitants of which have no reli.gion, die as they come into the world, without the imposition of the hands of Bishop or Priest, and would be more rejoiced at se:ir:Ig one wrecked vessil than all the men of God in Christendum. So the Dunfanaghy men .assert, but it is not easy to believe them." Dunfanaghy, 8 Sept., [835. M.ac Sweeny na Doe and the MacSweenie.s of County Donegal. ".... A man, tan and stately, three women and some children accompanied by a hampered ass, some greyhounds and other dogs, and, I think a goa,t . . . That is MacSwyne na Doe and his family, the heir of Doe Castle and the Sinsear of the Cann Suivne, whe 'though he re1ains all the high notions of his forebearers, has been obliged to exchange the sword and the b1Ule axe for the budget and 1the soldering (saudering) iron, . .. the only badge of his nobility are now his greyhounds and do·gs which no "P€itty game keepers li.ave dared to deprive him for Captain Hart treats him with
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