the next entry. Very Hev. Dominick MacDsvitt, O.F.M., parish priest, of Stranodar, for seyentccn years (1763-1782), forced to relinquish the pari1sh when Mc1st Rev. Dr. Coyle was raised to the See of H.aphoe. Father MacDcivitt's Christuin r::ame is given as John, by Maguiro, vol. 11, p. 92 and for further biographical details see "Irish Francis2~n Re1a'tions with Fratnce." (Four Masters' Press, 1951). The next parish priest may have been Very Rev. John Devenny. See Maguire, vol. 11, p.p 67/8. From the veiled hint contained therein it would appear that Father Devenny was moved from Stranorlar to Killymard upon representations being made to his Bishop that the Stranorlar parish priest was sympathetic toward the United Irishmen. The accusiations foll:;wed him to Killymard and in 1798 he was arrested and lodged in Donegal Bridewell by Capt. Oakwood. (Urquurt of the Loyal Essex RegLment) bat 1was spared further indignities by his friend, Capt. Mountgomery, of Mountcharles, who secured his release. (TradLtion found recorded in files of the "Derry Journal"). Stra.norlar 1798 (recte l 7BG), Rev. Francis O'FrieJ, P.P., Stran· or lune" (O~Cor:or cp. cit.). Not mentioned by SI aguire and may have been Most Rev. Dr. Anthony O'Donnell's "Dc:ar Couzen", "Mr. Francis O'Friel of .St. I~idorcs, 1751, whom his Lordship appointed as his agent in Rome in conn2ction \vith the MacDevitt-O'Gallagher claims t6 t1l-::e piarish. 1799. Memori1al of lease, Registry of Deeds, Henrietta St. Dublin. Book 529 p. 614. Lease frcm \Yilliam Ramsay of Dcoish (the father of the future Father \Villium Ramsay of Glenfinn) to James Boyce and Michael Eoycc, cf the Par~ (Dooish) meared by the lands of Abraham Flanagc:,n "formerly 'in the i:;ossession of Priest Carr". There is no priest named Carr in Maguire's Strai:.orlar list for the eighteenth century ! In view of the foregoing it will 'seem that the Right Rev. Dea.n Hugh Kerrjgan's associations with the Deanery of Raphoe and with the parish of Stranorlar date from the early years of the nineteenth century. This is confirmed by the im:cripUon on the Dean's tombstone in Stranorlar graveyard quoted by Maguire vol., p. 527. MOR...QBAIR AR LEITH : t-Athair E. J. MuJlen, C.C., Eden. . Ta ar diol anois ins na siopai infagh, Glenties, an duine sin. Ni leabhar (agus muna bhfui1, ba gadh e a chur in aithne do aon choir go mbeadh) leahhar beag Ghael i nDun na nGall, agus "Mount Silver Looks Down" (a breis-eolais tosaigh do ''A Hisluach 4/... o Domhnall 0 Cuinn, to:y of the Diocese of Raphoe'' Gr-ionan, na Gleanntai). Mor le na uncal, sea a leabhar beag. obhair .ar leith sea e, as ucht Ta idir clo-schibhinn Gaei!ge gm,bh e an duine ceadna a agus B(iJ:trla ins an Innea:1 closcriohh, a chuir i gclo agus a bhuailte atl1a ag an Athair clmir i lcrl'l)har e, agus b'e An Mul:.ins. 32:2.
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