Donegal Annual / Bliainiris Thír Chonaill. Vol. 2, No. 2 (1952)

U. Journal o! Socfoty of Antiqua1:ks t>f I r~la:1d. Sept., I !!lii. (1~1:1). 42. Gilbert "Contemp<;rary Hi~ tory," op. cit. 42a State Papers Domestic. Signet office lV 502. 43 "l,300 or 1,400 men'' to recapture a garrison of some 3040 men! 44 Papers and letter from Colonel Venahles to Sir Gerrard Lowther, President of the High Court~. Transcript made for Allingham. Siss. 45 Extracted from Crown Rentals; now in Public .Record Office, Dublin, hy Dr. Simmi·ngton, for which we are \'ery grateful. 46 Calendars of State papers. 47 The quit rent office :zdgers ·even as late a:s 1818-1823 have the following items which need fuither explanation. l'atent~e. !'11.il'hael 11 aq"iso1'1; Deno:ninatiou, Bailymasineda Pt., of Castlcdoe a n d Dowbeg :C4 12s 6d. 1\2nant Heirs of Gore Wray, per Bryan Devann.1· of Meevagh (This rent ·includes II'. 5s [4s 7~d BritishJ eharged on "Castle and Fort of Castledoe). Dr. Simmington reports tf:at the atove Crcwn rent was paid tm!il 1837 when "the helrs of Go!'e Wray" cea.sed to appea1·_ Bryan Devanny marked 'dead' and Patric•k McBride. Caggan, Carrickart, appears in his stead. Then from 184a to 1848 ''James Coch::ane." 48 Tradition appears to have reversed the Christian names of these two men, :1 ames Crone O'Donnell and Aodh Bane 395. O'Gallaghcr. O'Donnell figurie;; ln tlh. . · .st~rl.c Faper :·1 (lr !(),•2 arid ·.v:·1s •m his keeping thr1.>ugll "ue<s oJ' pirar·y." 4!) f >'Connell's "Jreiand" ciuo1ing pii:nphlet printed in 1661. 50 Cast:edoe (townland) parish of Kilmacrenan HiJ5, llearth ~Ioney Rolls. John Algeo ls for 1 hearth. -Richard Benstead, ls cio. Be:nard Kncx, ls do. 511 Carte Papers. Bodleian Library, Vol. XXXIX, p. WO. 52 Ormond mss. ii3 !hid. 54 Allingha-m Mss. in autho~"s possession. Outlawry List Parliament of Jas. 11, 1689. 55 Tradition recorded by late William Durnin which he g-0t from Father Sweeney, a native of Dungloe, who died in •910. :rn Williamite out:awry lists l(i91, mss. T.C.D. 57 {)'Donovan ':' Ordnance Survey Letter from Dunfanaglly, 1835, quoted in thii' J ou:·nal. 85 "The History of the Bank Of 1r6land". by Dr. F. C. Hall. 51.l Letter published in "Dtrry J ournal." G. \'. Hart, 17th Dec., rn:n. ~O The Sampsc.n family only benefited unde1· Cc'.oncl Vaughan's will by mere ch:ance. "The Fa:mily History of Hart of Donegal" , ;London, 19G7, P. 97. lil General Hart joined the 46th Foo1 as an Ensign ir, 1774 nnc! from 177 ii to 1777 wai" on ar:ti \'e service in Amerka. In 1779 he wa~ with Gcnc;·al Harris at tlie ca11ture of Serringapatam, as Colonel of 75th Re.giment, and arting in command of the Highland Brigade. As Colonel George Vaughan llart he i·eturned to Ire.land to hecom"' Bri!:1arlie..-

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