Interesting Link for Donegal Historians

irish1967

Lots of interesting Links here

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=donegal%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts

North_West_Art

wow, alot to take in at one glance there. I must put a day aside and browse through them

muffler

Good work. Well done

josey_whale

Excellent find!

North_West_Art

thanks 1967 by the way

Cul a cnoic

irish1967 wrote: »

Lots of interesting Links here

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=donegal%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts

Thanks irish1967, excellent post. Was reading Scenery & antiqities of north-west donegal (1893), well worth a read for all you Donegal folk. Extract below of Kincasslagh which I thought excellent..

The women, too, are fine specimens of the gentler sex, and exceedingly handsome, with dark rolling eyes and luxuriant tresses of the same color, but many of them are red-haired. O'Donovan, who visited the Rosses in 1886, writes on this subject as follows : — " The ancient Irish families here can yet be distinguished by their forms and features. The O'Donnells are corpulent and heavy, with manly faces and aquiline noses. The O'Boyles are ruddy and stout, pictures of health when well fed. The MacDevitts are tall and slender, with reagh visages.

The O'Dogherties are stout and chieftain like ; stiff, stubborn, unbending, much degenerated in their peasant state, but have all good faces. The MacSwynes are spirited and tall, but of pale or reagh color. Among them all the O'Boyles and O'Dogherties are far the finest human animals."

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Cul a cnoic wrote: »

Thanks irish1967, excellent post. Was reading Scenery & antiqities of north-west donegal (1893), well worth a read for all you Donegal folk. Extract below of Kincasslagh which I thought excellent..

The women, too, are fine specimens of the gentler sex, and exceedingly handsome, with dark rolling eyes and luxuriant tresses of the same color, but many of them are red-haired. O'Donovan, who visited the Rosses in 1886, writes on this subject as follows : — " The ancient Irish families here can yet be distinguished by their forms and features. The O'Donnells are corpulent and heavy, with manly faces and aquiline noses. The O'Boyles are ruddy and stout, pictures of health when well fed. The MacDevitts are tall and slender, with reagh visages.

The O'Dogherties are stout and chieftain like ; stiff, stubborn, unbending, much degenerated in their peasant state, but have all good faces. The MacSwynes are spirited and tall, but of pale or reagh color. Among them all the O'Boyles and O'Dogherties are far the finest human animals."

much the same as today