Parish of Killymard, Edrim Glebe, List of landowners February 1830 Read on

Laghey 1901 census yet again, but this time with ages as it may help peoples searches. Read on

The following census returns for Killymard Parish in county Donegal are for the most part Church of Ireland. Some of the 1851 returns have Roman Catholic families. The 1901 Census contains the names of all the people of the parish. Read on

Kindly supplied by Margaret Graham attached is the 1901 Parish of Laghy census. Read on

Seeking Carol Carr, Quinn, William Edward Carson Farr, Richard and Matilda Corrigan, Peter Petrie,O'Roddy, Charles Mulhern, McNulty of Kilymard. Read on

Would you like to help development of your own native county and region? If you are interested we invite you to log onto www.emigrant.ie/northwest.htm to help us put together a database of the Diaspora from Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim Read on

Kendal Husband was a self-styled pilgrim Bard. A native of Somerset in England he first made his appearance in Donegal in the late 1960"s. He was too polite to ask for assistance lest Read on

When someone was said to have "missed his vocation" it meant that he either failed to reach his aspirations or that he had preferred talents outside his recognised occupation. Read on

Bell Fay was one of the latter. Bell was known to two generations of children as the "Fairy Woman" because of her strange belief in existence of the "Little Folk" Read on

By the 10th century Irish surnames, almost all of which derive from forenames, were being used such as O"Neill (O"Neill-"descendant of Niall") and O"Donnell (O"Domhnaill-"descendant of Domhnaill"). Read on

Surnames were not in use in Ireland until about the tenth century. The O"Donnells take their name from Domhnaill, son of Eighneachain (d. 905) and they are sometimes called Clann Dalaigh from Eighneachain"s father (d. 874). Read on

The passing of the name Tir Conaill into distant history has an unfortunate story behind it. The change commenced in the year 1584 when Sir John Perrott assumed the deputy Lordship of Ireland Read on