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About James Giles Cunningham, II
Cunningham Manor History from askaboutireland.ie
Posted 24 Nov 2019 by mosfos5 on ancestry.com.
The land confiscated by the Crown after the departure of the Earls in 1607 was allocated to specially chosen undertakers * from the Scottish Lowlands and the northern English borders. The most important region designated for the plantation was the Laggan Valley of East Donegal; this area had prime farmland running south from the Foyle and Swilley estuaries. It was divided into the two precincts of Lifford and Port Lough, and awarded to the Cunninghams and Stewarts from Ayrshire, Scotland. Both these families brought over their own tenants and leased them farms at low rent.
The village of Manor Cunningham, originally named the Manor of Fort Cunningham, takes its name from its first proprietor, James Cunningham and his relatives. Between them they received 5,000 acres in the Port Lough district of Raphoe, Co Donegal. No less than five Cunninghams were among the fifty Scottish undertakers of the Ulster Plantation; all were granted lands in County Donegal. Their descendants remained in the area and are still included among the most familiar surnames in the area. John Cunningham, brother of James, whose lands bordered on Lough Swilley is still remembered in the names of the towns of Manor Cunningham and nearby Newtown Cunningham.
- UNDERTAKERS were those who undertook to bring over settlers to farm the newly acquired lands.
THE HISTORY OF DRUMBOE (Drumboe Castle is located near here. )
Drumboe woods is situated northwest of the twin towns of Stranorlar and Ballybofey on left of N15 travelling from Stranorlar towards Letterkenny and is in the catchments of the rivers Finn and Deele. The ruins of a large Georgian home and earlier fortification on the same site, known as Drumboe Castle, can still be found in the woods. Drumboe Castle is best known as the location of the execution of the Drumboe Martyrs — four republican soldiers — during the Irish Civil War, in 1923. The large house once had three stories, an impressive bay frontage and large number of rooms and fireplaces. By the twentieth century, the house had fallen into disrepair, and it was (mostly!) demolished by the state in 1945.
Balleighan Abbey Located near Manorcunningham village.
The name is derived from the Irish phrase "Baile-aighidh-chaoin" (the place of the pleasant aspect). The general belief is that Balleighan was founded by Hugh Dubh O'Donnell at the beginning of the sixteenth century and that like Killydonnell, on the western side of the Lough was an off shoot of the Kilmacrennan Franciscan Friary. Both places were linked by a ferry.
References
- John Goodwin Herndon. “The Cunninghams of Cub Creek.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 52, no. 2 (1944): 135–53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4245286.
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209570253/james_giles-cunningham: accessed May 2, 2024), memorial page for James Giles Cunningham (1652–1736), Find a Grave Memorial ID 209570253, citing Balleighan Abbey, Manorcunningham, County Donegal, Ireland; Maintained by Maredia Haddock C (contributor 47027498).
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James Giles Cunningham, II's Timeline
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Cunningham Manor, Ulster, Donegal, Ireland
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Cunningham Manor, Ireland
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1690
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Cunningham Manor, Donegal, County Donegal, Ireland
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1736
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Cunningham Manor, Ireland
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