CARROWMENAGH
History of a Donegal Village and Townland
Revised & Expanded Edition

After his retirement in the late 1990s, the author discovered aspects of his locality, which have remained quite significant in the living memory of the present generation. He felt that perhaps this living local history was in danger of becoming extinct.

The first edition of Carrowmenagh, history of a Donegal town and village fulfilled his ambition to document a precise local history of the Inishowen village of Carrowmenagh and its surrounding townland. That first edition was also an overwhelming success with sales of 2000, meeting with interest from home and abroad. This success enabled the author to donate his share of the proceedings to a number of very worthy local charities, including the Foyle Hospice and The Friends of Letterkenny Hospital, The James Connolly Special Needs Hospital and Carndonagh Community Hospital. This second edition has been published to meet the ongoing demand for copies.

This book highlights the effects of the Famine on the locality, the landlord evictions of 1891 and the contributions of many local young men to the Royal Irish Constabulary, the Garda Siochana, the Irish Free State Army, the Irish Naval Service and the Local Defence Force. It would appear that this area has given as many men to serve the Irish State as any other townland in Ireland.

"This is the written story of a townland and its people, based on oral history and various records, local and national. In future years, local historians will be grateful to John A . McLoughlin for his research and for putting it all in writing."
+BISHOP EDWARD DALY
July 2001