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   “My father, William Doherty, Pound St, Carndonagh still alive aged 73, born 1865 often told us when children that his forefathers came from Bun na Coilleadh, Urris Clonmany.”

   

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   My father, William Doherty, Pound St., Carndonagh still alive aged 73, born 1865 often told us when children that his forefathers came from Bun na Coilleadh, Urris, Clonmany. In years of Williamite Wars, they lived and in a family, there were ten sons, seven of whom were killed at the Siege of Derry fighting for James. These men were of powerful physique. At the age of ninety they were very nimble and supple, he said they could jump upon a horse and it at full gallop down the roadside. In his own family there were ten sons and no daughters. He was born at Glencrow, Moville, Co Donegal near the famous Cooley Graveyard where St Patrick build Domhnach Bile the second of his churches in Inishowen and of which a monastery under St Finian sprang up, which was burned by the Danes about 812 A.D. - by the Danes who were then in Lough Foyle. My uncle (now dead) Patrick Doherty of Glencrow used tell us that St Patrick ordained deacons in a house in Bradagh Glen, when in Inishowen.

   When a boy my father told us he never saw tea. The food was oatbread, milk porridge or brochan and potatoes. Meal was rarely used.

   He often related the story of the Terrirone

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   William Doherty

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   73

   Address

   Carndonagh, Co. Donegal