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1. Landlords of the District (continued)

   

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   considerable property in and around Milford. He was murdered at Cratlagh near Milford on April 2nd 1878. His clerk and driver were also murdered. The murderers escaped. Lord Leitrim carried out wholesale evictions in Fanad and would not allow a Catholic School to be kept open in the Parish. He also would not permit the Catholic Priest to reside in the village of Milford. A house in Milford that then was occupied by him is now Parochial Property and was purchased about ten years ago by Rev. John O’Doherty, P.P. Rathmullan. Rev J Haughey C.C. now resides in it, and during the past ten years mass has been daily celebrated in the room in which the Earl’s remains were laid on their arrival in Milford on the evening of the murder.

   

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2. Monastic Ruins in Rathmullen

   

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   Monastic Ruins in Rathmullan:-
   The ruling family of this district, The MacSweeneys came here from Scotland about the beginning of the fourteenth century. Tradition says that their Castle in Rathmullan stood on the little elevation at the Rathmullan Post Office Árd an Chaisleáin. They had no place to inter their dead but an old church in Rathmullan. It was then the custom for the ruling families to have their dead interred within monastic walls. The O’Donnells, O’Gallaghers, O’boyles had each their own monastic place of interment. In 1512

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Anthony Carbery

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Informant

   Charles Doherty

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Legland, Co. Donegal