An illustrated guide to the Fanad peninsula with images of the principal towns, features and sites of historical interest in the area. Includes a fold-out map.
Photographic print of Fr. Nicholas O’Brien OFM Cap. and (on the left) Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. with the Most Rev. William MacNeely, Bishop of Raphoe (1888-1963), at Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal.
Copy clipping from the 'Donegal Democrat' (27 July 2007) referring to the departure of Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap. from Ard Mhuire Friary. Includes photographic print of Fr. Eustace.
Clipping of an article titled ‘New Methods at Friary / Piers and retreats: a day’s work at Ards’ from the 'Donegal News' (17 Feb. 2017). The article refers to the closure (due to safety concerns) of the old pier alongside Ard Mhuire Friary.
Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile Sheet No.: Donegal, Sheet No. 26 Copy ordnance survey map (Dublin, 2nd ed., 1905) showing the Ards Estate and surrounding townlands and localities. Notable features include Ards House and demesne, Ards farm, the largely forested estate, St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Cashelmore, Doe Castle, Sheephaven Bay, and Creeslough.
An article on the history of the Wray family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Wrays were the owners of the Ards Estate before it was purchased by the Stewarts in 1781. It is noted that in about 1700 William Wray ‘bought 5,000 acres of land between Dunfanaghy and Doe from William Sampson’. The article adds: 'In 1781 the estate was sold to Mr Alexander Stewart, brother of the first Marquess of Londonderry and uncle of the infamous Lord Castlereagh, for the sum of £13,250 in order to meet the owner’s debts'. An appendix to the article includes some brief notes on the Stewarts of Ards compiled by Fr. T.J. Walsh, a diocesan priest in Cork.
Photographic print of the ordination of Capuchin friars at Ard Mhuire. The group includes Fr. John Joseph Manley OFM Cap., Fr. Senan Dooley OFM Cap., Fr. James Connolly OFM Cap. and Bishop Anthony McFeely.
Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars at Ard Mhuire Friary, County Donegal. The group includes Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap., Fr. Pádraig Ó Cuill OFM Cap., Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., and Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap.
