Amidst the many commemorations that are taking place around the world today to mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, it can be easy to forget how the small town of Letterkenny and its immediate hinterland was affected at the time by one of the bloodiest battles in human
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Following the outbreak of the Civil War in the early months of 1922, both Rockhill House and Ballymacool House were taken over by forces opposed to the Treaty. Under the command of Capt. Paddy Harkin, Rockhill House was easily taken over, as at that time it was unoccupied. Across the river though, the armed men
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It was on this day 366 years ago that a decisive and bloody battle was fought at the ford of Scarrifhollis, just outside Letterkenny, between the forces of Bishop Heber McMahon’s Ulster Army and Sir Charles Coote’s Parliamentarians. But how and why did this battle come about? In the thirty years that followed the Plantation
Read MoreIt was 115 years ago today that St. Eunan’s Cathedral in Letterkenny was officially consecrated and opened. Below is a short background in the lead up to that historic day. Towards the end of the eighteenth century, with the repeal of the Penal Laws, the first known Catholic Church in the Letterkenny area had been
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