THE PLANTATION OF DONEGAL - A SURVEY Convoy)-2,000 acres. Russell-1,500 acres. William Willson, esq., hath built There is a castle of lime and stone a house of lime and stone and birch standing on the river of Finn, called timber, slated, standing on a mount Castle Finn, re-edified with good adcalled Dundree, 50 ft. long and 18 ft. ditions to it by Sir John Kingsmill, 40 wide, with 2 returns whereof one is ft. square, 43 ft. high and 3! stories, 27 ft. long and 18 ft. wide and 2 stories slated and battlemented. Adjoining to high; the other is 33 ft. long, 18 ft. the Castle, there is a strong bawn, wide and 1 storey high. The upper built of lime and stone, 10-0 ft. square rooms of the house are unfloored. 13 ft. high, with 3 flankers, slated. To There is a bawn from the forefront of this bawn, Sir J·ohn Kingsmill intends the house, of lime and ·stone, 100 ft. to make an outwork of fortification, square and 12 ft. high. In the house, which will make it very de·fensible; in Willson, his wife and famiJy dwell, and which castle Sir .John Kingsmill, his near to the same, there are 6 cottages, wife and family inhabit. thatched, inhabited with Britons. Near to the said castle, there is a William Willson acknowledgeth village consisting of 25 thatched cotthat he hath made no legal convey- tages, inhabited with Britons-being, ance to any Freeholder, and that he for the most part, soldiers-where. his made di1verse imperfect notes purport- I troop lies in garrison. ing leases for years to diverse other of I Reputed Freeholders-4. his tenants. · Reputed Leaseholders-4. British men present-87, whereof Briti'sh men present, well armed-29. meanly armed-8~. The borough town of Liffer (Lif-. Killanagerdon (Killygordon} - 'ford) standeth on a river (to which. 1,000 acres. boats may come from Lough Foyle); Captain Ralph Mansfield hath and h a. t. h abo:u.t fifty- four built a house near the river of Finn, of houses, some of stone and slated, the lime, clay and stone, 60 ft. in length, rest of timber, thatched-inhabited, and 20 ft. wide with some returns, 2 for the most part, with English. sto.ries high, ·slated, some of the parti- I In this town, His Majesty hath a tions and floors not finished, with a I fort, built of lime ...:id stone, wherein bawn adjoining to the forefront of the is a fair stone house, 112 feet house, 120 ft. square and 9 ft. high, 1 long and 21 ft. wide, 2 storeys high, with 4 flankers, 15 ft. ·square apiece, slated, with 4 dormers. The walls of with birch timber and thatched, where- this fort are in ·most part decayed. . in Captain Mansfield's son's wife and Captain Tichbourne hath his company family dwell. in garrison there. Near thereunto he hath erected a To which town there is 1,000 acres village consisting of 10 cottages thatch- of common ·allowed by Sir Richard ed, inhabited with British, and about Hansard, Kt., deceased. half a mile from the river, he hath There are reputed Freeholders, erected another village consisting of made by Sir R. Hansard, -of their 8 cottages which are decayed, and two dwelling-houses and small parcels of of them without any tenants in them. land thereunto belonging-31. Freeholders-2. Reputed Leaseholders for years-23. Leaseholders for lives-1. British townsmen armed-18, and Leaseholders for years-5. soldiers that are freemen of the town. British me.n present-18. whereof Monastory (Ballymo.naster), first' armed-11. granted to Sir Thomas Coach, Kt.,·- Acarine, first gran~ect to Captain 1,500 acres. .' l 1 G.
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