JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY Chotes and ~ueries MILITARY HIISTORY IN COUNTY DONEGAL MacNevin in the appendex to his History of the Volunteers of 1782 (Centenary Edition) gave the following as the delegates who represented County Donegal at the Dungannon Convention : Col. A. Montgomery, Col. John Hamilton, C=il. R. MciCliintock, Lt. Col. Chas. Nes·bitt, Lt. Col. A. Stewart. He also gave a list of the various corps formed in Ireland, but its incompleieness is apparent even if one tries to identify the Corps commanded by these Donegal delegates. l should like to place on record my amendment of 1MacNevin's list in so far as it relates to Donegal :- 1. The Arran Phalanx Scarlet faced :white, Cap1t. Dawson, Lt. Fredrick GorE: · Earl of Arran. (Mac Nevin) Was this a County Donegal Corps? 2. Donegal First Regiment. Lt. Col. Hamilton (Mac Nevin). Was he the County Delegate? 3. Ramelton Volunteers, Gapt. James Watt. (Mac Nevin). Mr. Andrew Lowry has a brass belt badge engraved "Ramelton Supplementary Yoemanry Corps" and he rightly ascribes it to the 1798 period. 4. Raplrce Ba~alion - 1 July, 1778, scarlet faced blue, Lt. Col. Chas. Nesbitt. (,'.\facNevin) See "Three Hundred years in Innishowen" (Young). MacNevin's title is not correct-see Uls.ter Archaeological Journal Vols. 111 and 1 V (11897) for illustration of sil· ver belt badge belonging to (Rev) John Lamy, L.L.D., (High Sheriff for Co. Donegal 1785) with the inscription "Royal Raphoe Volunteers." Mr. ·Lowry has a brass badge with a similar inscription. 5. The Loyal Ballyshannon Volunteers. 8. The Killybegs Corps. These 237. two units are noticed to some length by Hugh Allingham in his "History of Ballyshannon." The flags mentioned by him are now in the National .Museum of Ireland and some excellent preservation work has been carried out on them by Dr. G. A. Hayes Mac Coy. 7. T'he UJ.!!1~er Fourth Regiment. .Col. R .McCUntock. (Mac Nevin) I assume that this was a Donegal ::egimerit as its Colonel was one of the County Delegates. 8. The Lifford Volunteers. Belt badge found by Mr. Lowry near Argrey. 9.?. Mr. Lowry has a brass belt badge, one of many still to he found i•n the Whitecross, Raphoe district. It bears the inscription Juvenum Manus (Crown surmounting a harp) Emicat Ardens and he believes that this was worn by a corps drawn from that area. As some of ·these Corps ;were reformed or re-incorporated during the last decade of the 18th century I now swbmit a list of ;te<nritorial units whioh I have compiled for that period :- • 1.. .. The Tir Hugh Cavalry. ·Commission in the Hamilton Mss. at Bownhall. 2. The lhyal Finn Water Corps. Founded by Capt. John Cochrane of Edenmore. (Burke : Landed Gentry of Great Britain. 1925.) Corpora,1 Richard Jenkins (Grand Jury Mss. in C.L.L.) 3. The RaDhOe Corps (See J. D.H.S. Vol. 1 No. 3 p.) 4. The Culdaff Yeomanry. :Lieut. Thomas Harvey (Grand Jury Mss. in the County Library at Lifford). These may be identical with the Culdaff Infantry (U.J.A. op. cit.) 5. The Letterkenny Yeomanry. Sergt. John Moore (Grand Jury Mss.) 6. The Le11erkenny Gavalry. Sergt. Geo. Barrett (Barnet) (G. J. Mss.) 7. The Malin Caval.ry. Stana-
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