School: Baile Mhic Dáibhid (Ballydevitte) (roll number 3854)
- Location:
- Ballydevitt Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal Mac an Luain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1031, Page 335
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A Story (continued)
“Once there lived a man named Gallinagh in the house at present occupied by Charles Doherty in the townland of Mullins.”
(continued from previous page)service and from that day on she never interfered with them or with her neighbours' butter.
- (continued from previous page)About two miles outside the town of Donegal there is a townland known as Ballyweel or “Baile Bhaoghail”. In this townland there was once a castle the ruins which stand on the sea shore are still to be seen. This castle was owned by the O’Boyles or O'Baoghail. Tradition tells us that it was from this castle and the people who lived in it that the townland got its name “the town of the O’Boyles” or Ballyweel.