General of the Curi agh Camp. In 1805 he was promoted a !.\fajor General and in 181 ~ the Li£·Utenant Gene~·a1 of Northern Ccmmand. In 1814 he he ·ame ) l[:P . for County Donegal and in 1820 wa;; appointed 'ni!itar y Gcvernor of Derry and Culmore Fort. lie he!d this office and his seat in Parliament until his death in 1832. 62 See "Doe Castle one hundl·ed years ago." 63 These cannons were after. \vards taken to Ards House by the Stewart£. i34 For "Balloo" see "The Family History uf Hart" op. cit., p. 141. G5 TherP. j :; some douht. a·bmt this accidental death. Scmz people claim that Captain John Jfa;·t was the Person who m~t his death by fallin~ down the steep stairway in the Doe Castle keep. 66 The Family History of Hart of Donegal, pp 115-6. Also vol. 1. Ne. 4, p. 241 of this Jcurr.a\. i17 Tradition f~om late Mr. William Durnin. 68 Dec Castle ·is now v2!'ted ns a class E Nationa'. Monument Sec ·vol. 1. No. 2. n. 123. DOE CASTLE GNE HUNDRED YEARS AGO An old pile of building ... it consists cf a square towe of five storeys, rising to a helght of some fifty feet, with wa:Js 8 feet in thickness, hut of such confined inter!or demensiom tr.ct caC'h store~· contains onl:i' cnr ~oom. Th0 ~'>nt l:l•r11 fal'r of !his towe1' acljrjins n mlld• lower :ma. hut more spacious bu'il<ling, consisting of one large and several l'mal ler appartrnents, below w(1ich are rooms new used as kitchEns and othe::- domestic ofJiccs; and in the angle .formed i>y the juncdr.n -0f the~e two part... of tile edifice stancts a low round tower. The whole i.• surrounded hy a roughly-built, 'Jrnt strong, grey wall of grey-stone ahcut 14 feet high, provided with an interior platform, or banquette, with various ungainly projections and machicolaticns meant to hinder an enemy .from availi.ng himself of the cover of the walls. The castle, which stands ·Jn a lcw, rocl{y promontory jutting out into the. waters of Sheeph aven, is defended on the landward side by a fosse excavate~! across the little w·omontory through the slatey rock of which it is composed. The passage ove1· this fos3e to the principal gateway is ·a solid stone bridge, o::-rathP.r causeway, comman:ied from the walls lJy a multitude of loopholes· and embrasures. A suhterraneous tunnel and windin2 stair lec:d from the fossc to a .small turret within the gate,. and tl1e::e a:c ~w::> other openings on the o:.iter walls, lloth looking towards the sea though in different· directions. On the eastern side, furthest frcm the g~·eat gate. the::e has lately been constructed out· ~ice of the exterior wall a Junette of earthwork, on which are m::unted five long nine-pounder r<. rn~cn nnd the::e a!·e some ~\'.·i·1ril!<•1· swi\·,~l gull~ in ~Om:> of the flanking hn·1·el>: . , ,
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