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From: "Eleanor Wright" <>
Subject: Re: [DONEGAL] Sheephaven?
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:13:06 +0100


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From: Robert Leader <>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 4:39 PM
Subject: [DONEGAL] Sheephaven?


> Dear Listers,
> In tracing the ancestor, LEADER, living in the Dunfanaghy area,
> there is no death record for either husband or wife (according to
> the Superintent Record office). I note their last(?) child was born in -
> what looks like - Sheephaven. Is this a town in Donagel? I do not find it
> in the lists for townlands. This may not be a clue, but I'm "grasping at
> straws". Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Dorothy, South
> Bend, USA
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> Hi Dorothy

Saw your note about Sheephaven and just had to reply. Sheephaven is a bay.
If you are coming into the bay by boat Tory Island will be behind you on the
right. On the right hand side as you travel in is Horn Head, moving along
on the right is Dunfanaghy, then Port-na-Blagh, Ballymore all with Muckish
Mountain which is 2197 feet high behind them. Travelling along in a
leftwards direction the road takes you to Creeslough (this is where Bridie
Gallagher, a folk singer was born, she was around in the early sixties).
>From Creeslough again moving left (I'm not very good at my N, S, E, W) you
come to Doe Castle (the original, I think, of the McSweenys, it is now a
ruin) and follow the bay towards Carrickart. If you turn left again you
will follow the bay around Tramore Strand, past where the old, mostly
wooden, Rosapenna Hotel was and into Downings Bay where my McElhinney family
were from. Some of my family still live there owning part of the Ganniamore
mountain just above Downings. This was where I used to go on holidays as a
little girl and from the top of Ganniamore you could see all of Sheephaven
bay and Dunfanaghy.

I hope this helps you as I have never heard of a townland called Sheephaven
but hope you enjoyed my tour of the countryside especially if the sun was
out - no place better.

If you or anyone on the list have a connection to the McElhinney's of
Mevagh, Hay's of Downings or Lavins from Drimreen, Carrickart (usually now
spelt Carrigart) I would be pleased to hear from you. My g.gdmother was
Margaret Lavins who married a Thomas McElhinney.

Good hunting.

Eleanor

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