ship or a Sligo man, David· Carter. It \Vas ultra Conservative ancl Cnionist in tone and, at times, extremely anti-Catholie. To counter-act i1s influence a r ival was set up entitled "The BaUysba.nnon Patdot," which proved abo!'tive. for only four numbers appeared. Some years later the Sli·go Liberals. cncou:·- aged b~' their success with "The Sligo Champion," founded in 1836, tried to help the County DonegHl Liberals by opening a p:-inting house in B allysl1annon and issuing from it a we>-~kly newspa.per "The Donegal Liberator'' in H'l39. It went out of rir~ culation after 11 montl1s. Are there any copies of these publications extant'? A UNK WITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH "Died at Carrigait on 2:; August , 1863. aged 88 years. Letitia Coll, otherwise Dennis<on, widO\V, for 40 years sextoness of the parish chun·h of ~Ieevagh. She was tile grand-daughter of the noted Doctor Wilde::-. Oliver Goldsmith'~i tutor in Trinity College. Dublin." (Derry Sentinel). Burials At Knader, Ballyshannon Towards the end of March. 1952, while opening a drain, Mr. Ai!red Patton unearthed some human bones near his new house at Knacler, Ballyshannon. Unfortunately the ·cones were very much distm bed and b"·oken by the excavation, but some facts could b.e gleaned without exploratory work, and it was decided to leave furtbe-i· il;vcs.tigation until a later dat~. There were traces of three burials along a 10 yard section of the drain, but only in one case were the remains found to be in a fair state nf preservation This interment was, as far as can be seen at the moment, facing east. The depth of soil on the rock in this area is only about 15 inehes an cl the gn1vc had been dug down t<1 roek. No surround of stones on edge is apparent. No weapons oc other a1·ti<'les have so far been found. Dr. Swan of Coxtown examined some of the bones and confirmed that thev were burr.an, but he could not give ::ny indication of ltow long: sinee the burial took place. His opinion was lnat the few bones inspected looked rather light for a fully grown man. However, the fact that the bones were very brittle may indicate that they were ot considerable age. There w<:re no mounds of earth p,erceptible over the graves such as may be seen on ::;rav·es a century old or more. There is a local tradition of the existence of a burial ground in the townland o( K11adcr. but until this recent discovw·y thl'
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