Local Monuments
“There is a standing stone in a field of Philip O' Donnell's, Ballybig, Carndonagh.”
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Maeve Doogan, Mrs Farron
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“There is a standing stone in a field of Philip O' Donnell's, Ballybig, Carndonagh.”
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Maeve Doogan, Mrs Farron
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“Two children belonging to Mr Daniel Doherty, Altohay, Carndonagh, died about twenty five years ago.”
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Daniel Doherty
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“About eighty years ago a woman who had been away in America for a long time wrote home to her parents who were living beside the convent in Carndonagh, informing them that she was coming home to pay them a visit.”
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Mr Henry Doherty
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“About seventy years ago there were rocks and flags of stone in the middle of a field in Casheleraw, near Carndonagh.”
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“One winters night Sarah Ned's brother who lived where his sister lives in Mullins, Carndonagh was coming home from a wake.”
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“A woman named Nora O' Donnell lived in Tiernaleague, Carndonagh about twelve years ago.”
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“About ninety years ago my great grandfather, John Kearney of Cashelcraw, Carndonagh, was quarring stones in a field near the house.”
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“A story is told of a man and a woman who lived in the Doonings, Carndonagh.”
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John Nelson, Sarah B. Nelson
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“When the people of Carndonagh were carting on the Derry road there was a man named Tom Doherty coming home from Derry with a load of goods.”
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“There was a man and woman living in Carndonagh about sixty years ago.”
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Mr Charles Farren
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“About five years ago a man named Neil Doherty who lived in Glack, in the parish of Carndonagh had some land in the "Buildings" and a man named Mr Doogen bought it with the intention of growing hay.”
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“Out at the Mein in the district of Glenagannon, Carndonagh there is a big rock which is a giant was supposed to throw from the top of Sliabh Sneachta.”
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Mrs Eliza Doherty
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“On the river of Glenagannon, Carndonagh, there is a rock with a little well in the middle of it which is called the "Warty Well".”
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Mrs Eliza Doherty
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“It is said that the bell which now occupies the Belfry of the Protestant Church at Carndonagh was formerly in use in the catholic church before the sixteenth century.”
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Dympna Doherty, John Kearney
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“In the district of Tulnaree, Carndonagh, Co Donegal, there is a small village called Gort.”
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Maude Canny, Mrs Annie Canny
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“In the penal days when the priests were being hunted, a priest used to hide in a house now called Fairview, near Carndonagh, Co Donegal.”
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George Clingain, Roseanne Clingain
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“There is a story told of an old man and woman who lived to together in the townland of Ballyloskey, Carndonagh, County Donegal.”
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Maggie Mc Elhinney, Mrs Fanny Mc Callion
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“Between seventy and eighty years ago a strange woman came to the house at present occupied by Sarah and Mary Kearney, The Mullins, Carndonagh.”
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“A man called Willie O'Donnell, The Mullins, Carndonagh, returned from Australia, in the year of 1913.”
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“In the year 1891 there was supposed to be a haunted house in Milltown, Carndonagh.”
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