THE PLANTATION OF DONEGAL - A SURVEY Sir Richard Hansard hath built a bawn of lime and done, 80 ft. squp.re and 12 ft. high, with 4 flankers; on ~he fore part whereof he hath built a house of stone and . lime, slated, 40 ft. long and 20 ft. broad, bein,g 1 ! storeys high, with 2 returns 12 ft. long apiece. Near to this house is erected a ·vi.ilage consisting of 10 houses of cage-work, some 2 storeys high and the rest 1 ! storeys, inhabited with English. There is also a water mill built near the town. Reputed Freehoiders-9. British men present, armed-IO. Lismonaghan, first granted to Sir Thomas Coach, Kt.,-l,000 acres. Lady Coach hath built a house, being on Lough Swilly, of lime and stone, 24 ft. long and 18 ft. wide and 1! storeys high, with birch timber, slated; whereunto is added a timber house, 36 ft. long, 24 ft. wide and thatched. Ad;. joining to this house, there is a bawn of lime and stone, 60 ft. square and 10 ft. high, with 2 flankers 15 ft. square apiece, covered; in which house Lady Coach and her family dwell Near unto this house there are 4 houses, thatched, inhabited with English. Reputed F'reeholders-3. wide, 1 ~ storeys high, slated; to which is adjoined a bawn 'Of brick, 150 H. square and 5 ft. high; in which house, Sir Ralph Bingley, his wife and family dwell. Near unto this house, there is a village of thatched houses, inhabited with Britons. Reputed Freeholders-5. . Reputed leaseholders for lives-2. Reputed leaseholders for years-23. Tenants-at-will-2. British men present-33, wh~reof well-armed-30. DIED AT 109. Letterkenny, November, 1836. Died at hE.r son's residence, Sallaghagreen, near Letterkt.nny, Mrs. Eleanor GallaghE.T, relict of Mr. Cnris. GaJlagher, aged 10'9 years. Her last confinement was ahout 50 years ago, when she gave· birth to 3 children, two of whom are still living. She retained thE.· use of all her faculties to within a few hours of death, having been able to read without glasses up to two months ago. Her memory wa,. €XCE.Uent and she could tel.l of all the important events of the past 100 years, like thE., great frost o: 1789. FACTION FIGHTING Reputed leaseholders for lives-2. Kilmaic:rennan, May, 1832 At the fair of Kilmacrtnnan a deLeaseholders foi· 21 years-4. /sperate contest took place between two ,factions - the Gallaghers and tne British men present, well-armed-18 McoG.ettigans, which tE.Tminated in broken heads and arms. The affray Dromore and Lurgagh, first grant- would have beE.n more se:ious and to Sir Maurice B2rkeley, Kt., 2,000 lives Jost but for Lieut. Persse and his acres. policE., and the timely interference of I Rev. Mr. Hestings, the., Rector, who was There is a house of lime and stone obliged to ·read the.· Riot Act. The Rev. built on Lough Swilly by Sir Ralph Mr. McGee, the P.P., did all that a Bingley, 45 ft. long and 24 ft. wide, man could to assist the authorities to with a return, 21 ft. long and 24 feet restore order. 517;
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