,Jo.)URNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY a:-d at Malin Hall 1897 (U.J.A.) 8. The l\'t..1.lin Infantry. Drum at Malin Hall 189.7 ·(U.J.A.) Tnese iis•s are not exhaustive and I should like to see them amplified and cnl.arged. As territorial units they were in addition to tne Donega.1 Milirtia which appears to have set its roots as E.arly as the middle of the 17th century? According to Major General Sir Henry McAnaly, *The Irish Militia a Mr. Clements. of Co. Kild.a·re is the present custodian of Donegal Militia records and the regiment is worthy ·Of a short history in this Journal. One of its las.t Company Commanders, Captain J. S. Harrii~1.on, D.L., is a past President of this Society. "M.ARJS" >!<"The Irish Militia 1793-1816: a social and military study." Dwblin : Clonmore and ReynO:ds, 1949. FROM DONEGAL 'I•O PERU - O'GA,LLAGHERS IN EXILE "Senor Manuel Gallagher, 65 year old .F'o0reign Minister for Peru, has arrived in Washington for a hemis·phere conference ·Of Latin - American Statesmen. 1Speaking P ei uvian Senor Galla.gher told the Irish News /\ g 'ncy ihrough an interpreter ' \ •Ty grandfather was a scientist a::id he came from keland. He came to Peru from County Donegal on the Cha.r:les Da~in expedition of the last century. He liked Peru so much that he stayed there and sent home to keland for his sweetheart who beeame grandmothe•r'. Senor Gall::i•gher was born in Lima, capital of Peru and he is the son of Pat. ricio and Pelt'I'anilla Ga:11aghe.r". (People's Press. 1950) SOME SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MERCHANT BA·NKERS OF CO. HONEGA;L, The :follo:wirur list of token coins has been brought to my notice. Ca·n any reader add to it or suo·olv biographical information relating to the merchants who issued them?- .;1) .William Anderso:(n)- Harp with six strings Laterkenie (star) march(t). ld. (2) . IJames Coningham ld. Laterkenie .(diamond) marchi(t) Harp with seven st:'ings. (3) Ion Mack(y) march (t) McCunningham 166o. ; 4) Ion Oalhowne, .Castlefeine, ld. ,5) Wil. Wigto:i., Donegal. (6) Geo. Anderson, Rathmullen. ld. 'I'HE BROOKES OF BROOKHALL (now Fort Stewart) IVIr. Basil G. Brooke, 23 Halsey St., London S.W.3., would like tJ know the whereabouts of the family burial p.[ace of the above. Tory Island Lighthouse, Meenlaragh · P.O., Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. 24/ 8/ 1950. D2ar •'\fr. McDonagh, I see by a news item which appears. in to-day's Derry Journal, that an 18-centuries-old Roman coin was found near Conwal burying ground. Some time ago a man on this Island, J. Meenan, brought me portions of coins which he found near the tmditiorual site of Balor's Castle. I sent them to my friend. A.W. ·Stelfox, formerly of the National .Museum. He took them to Dr. O'iSu:llivan who looks after the coins in the Art Divisi.on of the M:useum. He said they are silver pennies of the reign of Ed.ward the .First, and minted b·tween 12•79 and 1307 A.D. Dr. O':Sulli~a.n thinks one certainly between 1,302 and 1,307, the other older. They may be of some use to you in your capacity of Hon Secretary to the Histor- ·'cal Society. I told ':Vlr. Stelfox of four other square coins which were found by the· i&lande·r.s s·Ome y2ars ago, •and sold to visitors from Belfast ,a.t ten shillings each, £2 for the four. Dr. O'SulPv!":n says that these were almost certainly Spanish and minted during Philip's reign; i.e. Elizabethan - the time of the 238.
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