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Ballyshannon Folk Festival [26] takes place every year on the August bank holiday weekend. This Festival is now the longest running Folk and Traditional Festival in the world. It has just returned to its roots in The Marquee for its 40th Birthday. Ballyshannon & District Museum is located on the second Floor of Slevins Dept Store in Ballyshannon.
In March 1751, electing to enlarge his Irish estate (he had inherited his father’s Curraghmore property and, in 1735, had bought the late Sir Henry Caldwell’s house at Ballyshannon), [17] he purchased the extensive holdings of the insolvent Everard family in and around the town of Fethard, County Tipperary, for £30,500 [18] [note 7] and ...
William N. McNulty (1829–1922) was an American Catholic priest and dean, who arrived in New York from his native Ballyshannon, Ireland, in 1850, during the Great Famine. In the mid nineteenth century, there few Catholic facilities in Passaic County, New Jersey.
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This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Ballyshannon in County Donegal. It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland from 1613 to 1800. Members of Parliament, 1613–1801
Niall Garbh Ó Domhnaill built Ballyshannon Castle in 1423 to command the ford over the River Erne. The castle was captured and sacked by Conn Bacach O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone in 1522. Sir Conyers Clifford’s army was repelled by Hugh Roe O'Donnell after the castle was besieged for three days during the battle of Ballyshannon in 1597.
Today, his Piqua farm is maintained by the Ohio Historical Society. John and Rachel Johnston were married for 38 years before his wife died on 24 July 1840, after eleven days of illness. The bereavement after the death of his wife in the family home, caused him to leave and move to Cincinnati with a daughter, and then later to Dayton, where he ...
Conolly was reputed to be the wealthiest man in Ireland at the date of his death. He paid £32,000 and an annuity of £500 p.a., for his 30,586-acre estate at his birthplace in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, in 1718; £62,000 for his 10,360-acre estate in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, in 1723; and £12,000 for 809 acres including Leixlip, County Kildare, in 1728, together with other properties in ...