Excerpt from Highways and Byways in Donegal and Antrim I have laid myself under so many debts in this task of compilation that it is impossible to make complete acknow ledgment: yet I cannot omit some mention of Dr. Macdevitt's excellent volume T fie Donegal For the history I have consulted chiefly the Dz'efz'onmy of National Bz'ograpny, Hill's Illaea'onne/ls of Anz'rz'in and of course o'curry's edition of the Annals of Me Four Masters. I owe a more personal debt to my friend who is known as Moira o'neill for her permission to reprint two charming lyrics, and acknowledgments on the same account are due to the editors of the Specialer and Blaeewaod's Magazine. But chiefly I have to thank Mr. John Cooke, editor of Murray's Hand-wok 10 Ireland, first for the assistance afforded to me by that excellent work, and secondly for his great kindness in revising the proof sheets of this book. To my many friends in the North I owe a gratitude which goes back to days long before I ever troubled them about things that I was writing; and I entreat their indulgence for stories maimed in the telling, and for whatever else I may seem to have written amiss in these pages which treat of a country not to be separated from my remembrance of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.