This is for anyone who would like to contact friends or contribute their own content, just check link to Donegal friends....
Hi All, If all of you Donegal people our families & friends, were to post what photos you may have, either past or present, it may make an intresting archive. Everything is exceptable, the funniest, maddest posed or spur of the moment shots, that will express the individuals character. All Family, friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, schools, pubs, clubs, pets, homes, whatever!! this is just a casual let your hair down off the cuff photo album. If you feel that you have a connection in any way... Go for it! The year, a title & some info., a story just to get the jist of "what's what".
Click on link below :
http://donegalfriends.blogspot.com
Donegal, town (1991 pop. 2,193), Co. Donegal, NW Republic of Ireland, on the River Eske at the head of Donegal Bay. The town is a seaport with wool mills. Its castle, stronghold of the O'Donnells, was rebuilt in 1610. There are ruins of a Franciscan monastery, founded in 1474, where the Annals of the Four Masters, a history of the world, was compiled between 1632 and 1636.
O'Donnell
The name O'Donnell comes from donhnaill, which means world mighty; it was a popular Irish personal name.
The main sept of the O'Donnells is associated with Tirconnell in Co. Donegal, and the family also has links with counties Clare and Galway. Red Hugh O'Donnell, the most famous of the clan, lived from about 1571 to 1602. He was the Earl of Tyrconnell and was closely involved with the ill-fated struggle against the English at the end of the 16th century, which resulted in the exile of the Irish chiefs (known as the Wild Geese). In Donegal town, the castle, now largely restored, was the O'Donnell stronghold.
One of the descendants of the Wild Geese was Leopoldo O'Donnell (1809-1867), a prime minister of Spain, and the Spanish connection remains important. The sole surviving member of the O'Donnells of Tirconnel is Father Aedh O Donel, born in 1940, a Franciscan missionary in Zimbabwe. The head of the clan will pass from him to Spanish cousins, the Dukes of Tetuan.