School: Gráinseach Ailt an Chaistín (St. Johnston)
- Location:
- Saint Johnstown, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Ó Seanacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1106, Page 6
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- (continued from previous page)shallow at this place and it is probably that the castle was built to guard this weak place on the border of Tír Conaill. Judged from the standard of modern mansions it is very small, but it was considered very large at the time it was built. It was built four hundred years ago by the O'Donnells who were the rulers of Tír Conaill. Kind James the Second stayed three nights in Mongavlin Castle when he was with his soldiers at the siege of Derry in the year 1689.
The village of St.Johnston was the headquarters of Jame's Army during the siege of Derry. Kind James spent some time in the house of John Cowan a Presbyterian elder of Monreagh congregation. He left his sword behind him. The show where he stayed is now in ruins at the foot of the hillhead brae. He left his sword behind and Miss Mary Jane Cowan now has it in her possession. The house where the Cowans resided from 1609 to 1925 has now been cleared away and the St.Johnston Post Office now occupies the site of that historic building.
- Collector
- Samuel Moody
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kinnacally, Co. Donegal
