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1947  President: Andrew Lowry                     first Donegal Annual then called          "Journal of the County Donegal Historical Society"                

Officers and Committee   1
Objects and Rules of the Society   2
FOREWORD Andrew Lowry 3
Editorial Chris MacDonagh 5
Donegal in Song and Story Ven. Archdeacon Kerr 6
Co. Donegal in Anglo-Irish Literature Chris MacDonagh 15
Shore Dwellers and Sandhill Settlements (Dooey and Lettermacaward) P.J. MacGill 27
Pádraig Ó Beirn, File agus Sár-Ghael 1857-1927 Micheal Óg 36
Notes & Queries   39
Book Reviews:    Romantic Inishowen Chris MacDonagh 43
                           The Rev. John Boyce, D.D. 1810-1864 (Biograpgy) Chris MacDonagh 44
                           Irish Men of Learning Aubrey Gwenn 45
Nótaí & Ceisteanna   47
Bibliography of Co. Donegal MacDonagh & MacIntyre 49

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1948     President:   Thomas Molloy

Committee and Membership   81
FOREWORD Thomas Molloy 85
The O'Hegarty's of Ulster and Kindred Families Father Walter Hegarty 86
Clann tSuibhne na Miodóg Niall Ó Domhnaill` 93
Rambles in Drumholm Hugh Deery 99
Memory of the Young Pretender Capt. E. Boyle 112
Rural Villages and the Rundale System Peadar Mac Loinsigh P.P. 115
Antiquities of Co. Donegal   121
Wolfe Tone and Donegal Seamus Brady 129
Valuable Records Salved   140
Notes & Queries   145
Gleanings from Old Manuscripts and Newspapers   148
Bibliography of Co. Donegal MacDonagh & MacIntyre 151

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1949 President: John Hamilton

Committee & Membership   165
The Irish Woollen Industry P.J.McGill 168
Coinnteann na mBard Niall Ó Domhnaill 178
The Atlantic and the North Irish Emigrant of the 18th Cent. J. Dickson 189
Manus O'Donnell ( Manus a' Phice) Rupert Coughlan 193
Co. Donegal in the Catholic Qualification Rolls Sean Ó Domhnaill 204
Tobar na nAingeal Seosamh Ua Maolain 206
Notes & Queries   208
Book Reviews   213
Hearth Money Rolls for Co. Donegal 1665   215
Leabhraisneis ar Thír Chonaill Niall Ó Domhnaill 217

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1950 President: S.D. MacLochlainn

Committee & Membership   232
Transactions of the Society 1946-50   235
Notes & Queries   237
Talta Thír Chonaill Niall Ó Domhnaill 244
Shore Dwellers and Sandhill Settlements of Co. Donegal Chris MacDonagh 252
Thrills and Disappointments of a Donegal Collector Andrew Lowry 256
Na Dálaigh (The O'Donnells of Tirconaill) Rupert Coughlan 263
Willie Reilly and his Colleem Bawn Marcus Macenery 281
In Memoriam   286

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1951 President: Rev. J.H. Bewglass

Editorial   286
List of Members   290
Music in Donegal Rev. A McLoone 293
Historic Fords of Donegal Rev. T Molloy 303
Memories of the Twin Towns Dr. Sarsfield Kerrigan 309
Co. Donegal Family in Germany   316
The History of the Diocese of Raphoe Kit Taaffe 319
Crannogs of Tirconaill Chris MacDonagh 325
A Donegal Naturalist of the 17th Cent.   329
In Foreign Fields   331
Book Reviews   333
Approach to Donegal Benedict Kiely 336
A Tour Round the County   339
Clergy and Religious Institutions   360
Garda Siochana   364
Pigots Directory 1824   366

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1952 President: Very Rev. Peadar MacLoinsigh

Committee & Membership    
The Story of Doe Castle Chris MacDonagh 381
History of Public Transport in Donegal C. A. Celkin 406
Donegal in Industry (Manufacture of Tweeds)   417
Ireland's First District Justice   424
Antiquities in the Parish of Donegal (Townawilley)   428
Antiquities in and around Killybegs B. J. McNelis 431
Kilbabbin P.Maguire 433
Gleanings from Old Newspapers & MMS (Murder in Fanad)   434
Burials at Knader, Ballyshannon P.A. Jackson 435
Donegalmen in the American War of Independence K. Taaffe 439
Correspondence- O'Donnells of Galssagh   444
"Na Glúnta Rossanacha" - léarmheas Pádraig Ó Cnáimhsighe 448
1952 In Retrospect   449

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1953/4 President: Rev. Richard Laird

The Kidnapping and Imprisonment of Red Hugh Morwenna Donnelly 457
Gleanings on Donegal History Fr. Canice Mooney O.F.M. 463
Count O'Donnell Proposes a Coadjutor for the See of Raphoe Fr. Terence O'Donnell O.F.M. 473
Ancient Roadways of Donegal Patrick J. McGill 478
Seaghan Mac a'Bhaird Micheal Óg Mac Phaidín 485
Four Ancient Stone Forts in Co. Donegal R.F.G. Adams 491
The Name Béal Atha Seanaigh T.S. Ó Maille 499
Hearth Money Rolls Chris MacDonagh 501
Ancient Church at Malin Head   503
Rally of the Clans C.A.Celkin 505
The Plantation of Donegal- A Survey V.W. Treadwell 509
Members and Officers   518

1954/55           President: (1954) Patrick J. MacGill, Ardara.         (1955) Miss C. Atkinson, Cavangarden, Ballintra.

Life in Donegal in Pre-Famine Days Sean Ban McMenamin                                                 1
The Founding of The Friary in Donegal Fr. Canice Mooney, O.F.M.                                                     15
Red Hugh's Return Home Morwenna Donnelly 24
Bord na gCeantair gCung

Brian Mac Cafaid                                                                       

31
The Plantation of Donegal V. W. Treadwell                    41
The Rundale System in Donegal

Desmond McCourt                                                                   

47
Fragmenta Rapotensiana

Fr. Terence O'Donnell, O.F.M.                                                  

61
Where is Magh Ceidne And Magh Ene

Rev. P. Ó Gallchobhair                                                            

70
Parliamentary Returns for The Diocese of Raphoe

T. 0. D.                                                                                       

74
County Donegal Museum Curator's Report                                                                           78

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1956        President:     Rev. Terence O'Donnell, O.F.M., Rossnowlagh, ('56/'57).                     

Where was the Donegal Friary at Drowes  

Rev. P. Ó Gallachair

82
Castlefin - At The Base Of The Lagan Dr. S. P. Kerrigan 93
Donegal Schools a Century Ago P. J. McGill, N.T. 102
Ancient Christian Burial Places of Drumholm

Hugh Deery

110
Other Days in Donegal

Fr. Terence O'Donnell, O.F.M.

114
The Old Lifford Corporation J. C. T. MacDonagh 120
Medieval and Modern Castles in Co. Donegal J. C. T. MacDonagh 123
Materials for History of Abbey Assaroe J. C. T. MacDonagh 127
Fragmenta Rapotensiana Fr. Terence O'Donnell 130
A Seventeenth Century Letterkenny Manuscript J. C. T. MacDonagh 139
The County Museum Curator's Report 143

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1957

The Franciscan Friary at Drowes

Revd. Fr. Canice Mooney, O.F.M.

1
The Sharon Murder, 1797 Frank L. Gailey 8
An Saol atá thart ins na Rosaibh

Padraig Ua Cnaimhsighe, O.S.

17
Quiet Donegal D.V. 23
Conall of Tir Chonaill Margaret E. Dobbs and Sean MacAirt 25

Portnoo as an Archaeological Centre

Isobel R. Crozier 65
Proceedings  1951-1956     71
From Rural Village to Regional City

Denis Verschoyle

73
Assaroe Cemetery

Rev. Fr. Padraig Ó Gallchoir

81
Red Hugh at Dundalk

Morwenna Donnelly

107
The Ardaghey Scalan

Cahir Healy, M.P.

113
Mol an Dalach 's roinnfidh sé leat

Niall O'Donnell

114
Glencoimkille: Its Early Christian Monuments and Pilgrimages

Patrick J. MacGill

120
Notes and Queries     127
Subsidy Rolls

(P. 0. G.)

130
Curator's Report, 1957      131
Fragmenta Rapotensiana: Parish of Kilbarron Revd. Fr. Terence O'Donnell, O.F.M. 133
Cumann Seanchais Thir Chonaill, 1957   149

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1958  President:  Mr. J. C. T. MacDonagh (1958/'59).

John Colgan, O.F.M., and The Louvain School

(Rev. Canice Mooney, O.F.M., Dún Mhuire, Killiney)

1

“At Drowes": A Symposium

(Brendan Jennings, O.F.M., Seán MacAirt, M.A., and Niall O'Donnell)

6
The Heirs to the O'Donnell Chieftaincy

(J. C. T. MacDonagh, B.Comm., President of Society)

22
Tour of Historical Sites in the Parish of Killaghtee

(Denis Verschoyle, City Hall, Cape Town, S. Africa)

35
Betha Columbcille: Learmhas (Pádraig Ó Beirn, M.A., Teelin)  45
The Erne-Drowes Line (Lucius Emerson, Ballyshannon)  55
Woodlands of Donegal: 1640 to 1840 (Eileen McCracken, M.A., Magee College, Derry) 62
Where was O'Donnell's Fortress at Murvagh? (Rev. P. 0 Gallchoir, Meánscoil Thiarnaigh, Clones) 65
Death comes to Lord Leitrim

(Prionnsias Ó Gallchobhair, O.G.S., Srath an Urlair)

69
The Sharon Murder     73
Notes & Queries    74

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1959

Derry and Raphoe in the Twelfth & Thirteenth Centuries

(Rev. Aubrey Gwynn, S.J., Professor of Medieval History, ) 

84
Allingham's Laurence Bloomfield - A Historical Document (Alison O'Reilly, Memorial University,  St. John's, Newfoundland) 101

The Dickson & Connolly Families of Ballyshannon

(Rev. J. Morell McWilliam,  Dumfrieshire, Scotland) 111
An "Wasp" i dToraigh (Leis an Ath. Eoghan O Cholm, Oileán Thoraigh) 118
The Plantation of The Laggan And its Economy, (1600-1900) (James H. Rutherford, B.A., Manorcunningham) 122
Rock 'n Reel (Denis A. Verschoyle, Capetown, S. Africa) 141
Heirs to the O'Donnell Chieftaincy (Part 11a) (J. C. T. MacDonagh, B.Comm., Ballybofey) 146
Whales and Whaling in Donegal Bay (P. J. McGill, B.A., N.T., Woodhouse, Ardara) 156
Bliain An Droch-Shaoil (1847) (Liam MacMeanman, B.A., O.S., Fal Charrach) 161
Some Notes on Inver and Killymard

(Ignatius MacHugh, Ballymacahill, lnver) 

164
Where was O'Donnell's Island on Lough Beagh? (Rev. P. Ó Gallachair, Meanscoil Thiarnaigh, Clones) 170
Notes and Queries     174
Proceedings (1958-'59)    178
In Memoriam    179
Reviews   180
Membership   181

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1960 President:  Denis Verschoyle, Capetown, South Africa. 

In Memoriam 

 

187
The MacDonagh Memorial

 

192
From The MacDonagh Papers:

I.      Letter from Fr. -Peadar 0 Laoire   

II.      Extracts from Raphoe Marriage Registers

III.      The Night of the Big Wind. in Co. Donegal

194

196

201

County Donegal in 1739 (Very Rev. Dr. H. G. Simms, Trinity College, Dublin) 203

Dálach Ghaoth Dobhair

(Niall Ó Dónaill) 209
Old Markets and Fairs (P. J. McGill, N.T., B.A., F.R.S.A.l., Ardara) 227
Red Hugh's Campaign (Lucius Emerson, Ballyshannon) 233
Gleanings from Co. Donegal History (Rev. Terence O'Donnell, O.F.M., Gormanston)  258
Hearth Monies: Killybegs 

 

259
Notes and Queries     271
Coarbs and Erenaghs of Co. Donegal (Rev. P. Ó Gallachair, Clones) 272
Proceedings of the Society     

 

285
Obituaries

 

287

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1961  President: Éamonn Uas. Mac Loinsigh. 

Red Hugh O'Donnell, 1572-1601: A Biographical Survey (Rev. J. Silke, M.A., St. Eunan's College, Letterkenny) 1
Dalach Ghaoth Dobhair (Cuid a Dó) (Niall Ó Donaill) 20
Dunkineely and its Place in History

(Denis Verschoyle, B.A., Capetown, S. Africa)

44

From the MacDonagh Papers: IV Barnesmore In History     59
Lifford Corporation Book, 1716-83 (Brian Hutton, Public Record Office, Belfast) 67
Patrician Donegal (Rev. P. Ó Gallachair, Clones) 70
Notes & Queries     80
Review      84

In Memoriam 

  87
Hearth Money Rolls: Parish of Fahan    88
Officers & Membership, 1961     90

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1962 President:  Rev. P. Ó Gallachair (1963/'64).                      

Arranmore Island: Economic & Social Study, etc. (Clifford Hargreaves, B.A., 102 Egerton St.,Heywood, Lancs., England) 99

Manus O'Donnell, 21st Lord Of Tír Conaill

(Dr. J. G. Simms, Trinity College, Dublin) 115
A Contribution to a Study of the Name of Ballybofey (Bearnárd Ó Dubhthaigh, M.A , B.Comm.,   Co. Mhuigheó 122
Historical Association of Fahan

(Harry P. Swan, M.R.I.A., "Ardeelan", Buncrana)

141
Gleanings from Co. Donegal History (Part II) (Rev. Terence O'Donnell, O.F.M., Gormanston Castle,Co. Meath) 151
Notes & Queries    175
Proceedings   184
Reviews   187
In Memoriam     193
Officers & Membership   194

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1963

Foreword: Eagrán Cholmcille.    
St. Colmcille: The Prince (Rev. John Ryan, S.J., D.Litt., University College, Dublin) 204

Where was St. Colmcille born at Gartan?

(Rev. P. Ó Gailachair) 221
St. Colmcille: Missionary or Deportee? (Fr. Colmcille, O.C.S.o., New Mellifont Abbey,  Collon, Co. Louth) 224
Pen Pictures of St. Columba   245
The Cross-Slabs of Ardara Parish (P. J. McGill, F.R.S.A.l., Wood House, Ardara) 246
Where are the Bells of Iona? (Matthew Gallagher, Burnfoot) 254
A Forgotten Columban Shrine in Gleneany (P. J. McGill) 258
Columban Donegal

Rev. P. Ó Gallachair, Clones)

262
Colmcille sa tSeanchas (Seán Ó hEochaidh, Gort a' Choirce) 277
Proceedings of The Society      285
Review     287
Officers & Membership of the Society           291

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1964

The Decay and Break-up of the Rundale System  in the Barony of Tír Hugh

(James Anderson, B.A., The Diamond, Donegal) 1
Gleanings from Donegal History (Part III)

(Fr. Terence O'Donnell, O.F.M., Gormanston)

43
MacDonagh Memorial Prize Essays, Letterkenny (Patricia Russell, Ardara, Lochlann MacGill, Ardara)  56
A Bibliography of Donegal Geology (Dr. E. M. Patterson,  Ayrshire, Scotland) 69
Professor Robert Crawford of Ballyshannon (Lucius J. Emerson) 77
A Detail in Donegal Transport History (Robert Hunter, M.A., Magee University College, Derry) 83
Notes & Queries   87
Father Terence O'Donnell, O.F.M    93
Proceedings of The Society   96
Book Reviews    98
Officers & Membership, 1964    101

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1965 President: Harry P. Swan.

The Background to a Hidden Age (Denis A. Verschoyle, B.A., Capetown, S. Africa) 110
Transport and Travel in The Pre-Railway Age (Pro. J. L. McCracken, Magee University College, Derry) 129
An English Tourist in Donegal, 1835 (John Barrow) 138

Rev. Dr. John Boyce - "Paul Peppergrass" (1810-'64)

(G. M. McNamara, F.L.A.l., Co. Librarian, Lifford) 141

Glenveagh

(Dominic Ó Ceallaigh, B.A. B.Ph., Downings) 150
The Harbour of Ballyshannon (Pro. Robert Crawford, Trinity College, Dublin) 161
Notes Towards a Recent Bibliography of Co. Donegal (G. M. McNamara) 175
Notes & Queries   

185

Reviews  

190

From The MacDonagh Papers: VI: The Rosses in The 18th Century  195
Proceedings of The Society                     199
Officers & Membership, 1965    201
In Memoriam   214

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1966     President: Rupert S. 0 Cochlainn (1966-'67).

Donegal associations with The Easter Rising (Major General Joseph Sweeney) 1
Personal Memories Of 1916 (Frank Robbins) 12

Donncha Mac Niallghuis

 (Seán Ó hÉinne, Ceann na Coille, Gleann Cholmcille) 26
Organising The I.R.B. in Donegal (Earnáin de Blaghd) 41
Coimeen Goes to Camp (Concobhair Mac Fhionnlaoich) 45
Some Casement associations with Donegal  (Hon. Editors) 59
Pádraig Pearse in Donegal  (P. J. McGill, F.R.S.A.l., Wood House, Ardara) 67
Thomas MacDonagh in lnishowen (1914) (P. J. McGill & Seán Mac Sheáin) 89
Mo Chuimhne ar Chuairt an Phiarsaigh ar Theilionn (Seán Mac Sheáin) 92

Donegal and The Ulster Volunteers

  (Dr. J. G. Simms) 99
Some Weapons of the Rising (L. J. Emerson, Ballyshannon) 102
Proceedings of The Society      113
Officers & Membership    116

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1967

Fenianism and Co. Donegal (Brian Mac Cafaid, "Ardin Mhuire", Bundoran) 135

Raphoe Royal School

(Dr. M. Quane, "Oakdene", Coolock Road, Santry, Dublin) 148

County Donegal in The Jacobite War (1689-91)

(Dr. J. G. Simms) 212
Premiums Offered by the Donegal Farmers' Society (1757) Eileen McCracken, M.Sc., Ph.D.,  Derry) 225
A Souterrain at The Rock of Doorin, Co. Donegal

(Máiréad Dunlevy, Tanatallon)

229
Nineteenth Century Tourists in Co. Donegal (Pro. J. L. McCracken, Magee University College, Derry) 233
The Early Days of The Co. Donegal Historical Society (W. J. O'Doherty Jr., Ballinaglack, Ballybofey) 244
Proceedings of The Society    248
Officers & Membership    250
In Memoriam: Rt. Rev. Dean Molloy    263

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1968  President:  E.W. R. Cookman (1968-1970). 

Beaver Island: The Arnerican Arranmore    (Hugh O'Hara,  Chicago,  Illinois, U.S.A.) 267
Tobar Aibheog, Lismullyduff: Its Traditions and Associations (Bearnárd Ó Dubhthaigh, M.A., B.Comm.) 274
A Group of Portal Dolmens near Dunfanaghy (Seán Ó Nualláin,  Ordnance Survey,  Dublin) 289
Napper Tandy and Co. Donegal (Late Fr. Terence, O.F.M.) 300
Two Eighteenth Century Surveys of Castlefin (Eileen McCracken, M.Sc., Ph.D.) 313
Donegal Geology - A Further Bibliography (Edward M. Patterson, D.Sc.,  Ayrshire, Scotland 319
Notes & Queries    324
Proceedings of The Society     325
In Memoriam    327
Officers & Membership, 1968      363

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1969 

Teacher, Pastor & Patriot  Address by Rev. Dr. Bewgiass 1
Reverend James Porter (1753-1798) Seán MacLoinsigh 7
A Note on Greyabbey today Rev. W. J. Wharton 16
St. Anthony's College, Louvain Fr. Canice Mooney, O.F.M. 18
Notes on Volunteers, Yeomen & Orangemen of County Donegal Oliver Snoddy 49
Distilling in lnishowen Brian Bonner 74
The Ambush at Kilraine, 1921 Miss M. I. T. McGill 98

Notes on Donaghmore Parish

Dr. S. P. Kerrigan 103
An Eleven Years' War Find from Co. Donegal Michael Dolley and David Rebbeck 106
A Man From The Croaghs Remembers Patrick Campbell 109
Notes & Queries      116
Proceedings of The Co. Donegal Historical Society    121
In Memoriam     125
Officers & Membership, 1969    126

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1970

Napper Tandy's Raid on Rutland (1798)   Rupert S. Ó Cochlain 139

County Donegal in 1845

Maureen Wall 161

North-West Donegal after The Great Famine

Brendan Mac Cnáimhsí 178
Mairgní Nuala Ní Dhónaill Niall Ó Dónaill 203
Sidelights of The Parishes of  Cuidaff & Cloncha Brian Bonner 208

The Great Famine in Pettigo 

  232

Buncrana and Derry In 1744

David Dickson 233
A Seventeenth Century Mill in Tyrhugh R. J. Hunter 238
The Missing Stones of Conwall & Cloncha Mabel R. Colhoun 241
Death of Rory O'Donnell in Rome     244
A Forgotten Priest of Penal Days     245
Oilean An Teampaill   246
Reviews    247
Notes & Queries         253
Proceedings of The Society      256
In Memoriam    260
Officers & Membership     261

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1971                                                                                                                                                                     Commemorating the Silver Jubilee

President: Dr. J. G. Simms  

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The Ulster Plantation in Co. Donegal  Dr. J. G. Simms 3
Nicholas Skipper  Seán Patrick Healy 15
Farming on Tory Island  J. A. Hunter 19
Patrick MacGill: The Birth of a Legend  Dr. Joseph Mulholland 27
An Historial Geography of South Donegal  C. P. 0 Cnáimhsí 36
The Rosses: From the Earliest Times to 1640 Rev. T. O'Donnell, O.F.M. 62
The First Meeting of The Co. Donegal Historical Society An Eye Witness's Impression 85
Obituaries  

88

Proceedings of The Society     100
Officers & Membership     104

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1972   President. Liam MacMeanman (1972-'73).

A Donegal Broadside Ballad of 1856 Dr. Eoin MacWhite, 119
The Settler Population of an Ulster Plantation County Robert Hunter 124
Aodh Mac Briene: Saint of Sliabh Liag  Pádraig Ó Beirne 155
Population Changes on Tory Island James A. Hunter 159
A Donegal Revenue Inspection of 1775 David Dickson 172

Letterkenny Pastor and Parliamentarian:Rev. John Kinnear (1823-1909)

 Rev. Dr. Bewglass 183
Ards:     From Manor House to Monastery  Edward MacIntyre 187
A Man from the Croaghs recalls old Placenames Patrick Campbell 193
Notes & Queries   205

Leabhar-léirmheas: Book Review

  209
Proceedings of The Society    219
Officers & Membership      223
In Memoriam    237

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1973