1111~~i1.1lJ aud what rc1uailt8 of lh1:: castle, is now vested a~ a National monument (68). BIBLIOGRAPHY A'.'\D NOTES ON TEXT I. Doe. Caislean na dTuath and ~laC'Suiibhne na dTuath a"·e the p:·oper renderings ot Castledce and MacSweeney doe. , Some writers, like O'Brien, in the last century wer.e inclined to translate the Mac Suiohne na dTuath as ~IacSweeney of the battle axes, Le,, na dTuagh. EquaPy erroneous was the claim made by a writer in the Journal of the Royal Society of Anti11uaries of Ireland (Vol. XLVi -Sept., : 1915) that the name Tuatha "indicated that the tenitory allotted to the 'MacSweeneys (by the O'Donneils) had been occupied hy an ancient populace subjected oy the dominant Milesians and that it was possibly amongst this early remnant that the heathen customs prevailed which we!·e the ocrasion of a remarkable letter from Pope A1cxnnder l V to P atl'ick, '9is· ltcp of Raphoe in 1226 "(? the blind Bishop of Haphoe, ~·ho resigned 1251-53). The Bisiiop, at his own i·equest, was directed to use the sword of ecclesiastical crnsure aaa,inst lay folk (and the Irish word, tuath, has that mrnning) of his diocese, who w-0rshio idols, marry , persons related to them by kindred or affinity . The slender threads of argument. ,l1y which this writer rnught to associate the l'ishop's censute exdusively with t he D0e district, break down when we realise that the word tuath On addition to being the eccles393,. iastkal tel'lll for lay folk) uho was (a) the political term for "a population group capaille of maintaining 3,000 (or less, down: to 700 (l\tacNeill) and by extei'!- .sion the land it occupied" (Dinneen) and (b) that a very ancient Irish account ,of Tircori~ ail menticns many other tua~ thas in addition to "The three tuaths in McSwine-na-Doe's country.'' In fact the tuath was a:most the unit of division in this particula'r account < rnn. '"Planation in Uls~er" pp 101-2). O'Donovan rightly t:anslated T·uath as a district or territory and tells that MacSweeney Doe's 1hree terrUorles wu1'e Ross Guill, Tuath Tory arid Cloghaneely and these divisions were co-terminous with the parishes of :\1eevagh, Clondahorky, Raymunterdoney and Raytullaghbegley, Befo:·e the advent pi the Mac Sweeneys the O'Boyles appear to have been the lords of these districts. 2. William J::larkin, author of "Scenery and Antiquities of North-West Donegal." (Londonderry 1893) was a native of the Cresslough distrkt. He got these traditions from Manus Og O'Donnell of Golan, a son of ,~vlanus a Phice, who was born in the year 1758. See vol. 1, No. 3, p. 203 of this J-0urnal. 3. See "Traditions of Doe Castl.e," by the late Mr. Edward , Durnin, N.T., of Creeslough, to whom mem'hers of the Donegal Historical Society we:c much indebted when we visited the castle in 1948. <':. ";)fr. MacSweeney of Dunfanaghy," (l SCPl- 1810) , mentiol)ed by De MacParland was,
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