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The name Dungloe comes from the Irish language name Dún Gleo one of the names for a castle or fort on a small island in the townland of Cloughglass to the north of Burtonport. The castle had another name Dún Na Cloiche Glaise utah jazz sometimes shortened utah jazz to Dún Na Cloiche. That name Dún Na Cloiche means the fort of the grey stone . Ordinary utah jazz green is ‘uaine’ in Irish but bright green or grey is ‘glas’. The castle was a rectangular tower fort approximately 33 feet square according to John O’Donovan who saw the remains of the castle in the summer of 1835 while surveying for the Ordnance Survey. A part of the building stood until about 1890s when local youths utah jazz knocked it into the sea. They who remembered the building said that one of the things that were unusual about it is that it was not built of the same stone as the stone found in Cloghlass townland. Cloughglass is a red granite rock area. I would say that the stone was grey limestone a stone not found in the granite basin of the Lower Rosses and I would also surmise that the stone was taken in by sea. Limestone is easy to cut and more suitable than granite for building particularly if using primitive tools. Cloughglass the townland name comes from the name of the castle.
The castle belonged to the Sweeneys before the collapse of Gaelic Order in Ulster (1603) and to the Sweeney Chieftain of Doe Castle outside Creeslough in particular. Mac Suibhne Na dTuath sometimes called in English language McSwiney Ado owned the castle and the lands around it, the parish of Templecrone. The Sweeneys were the rulers of the Templecrone parish part of the Rosses until the Ulster utah jazz plantation in 1609 as well as Doe. The Wards family ruled Lettermacaward parish and their lands made up the balance of the Rosses. The Rosses is made up of the two old parishes Templecrone and Lettermacaward. The Sweeneys lost all of their lands that made up the old parish of Templecrone in the plantation of Ulster (1609) and in the land grant documents (patents) associated with the plantation the land were referred to as the ‘lands of Port Dunglo’. There was a landing place near Dun Gleo and it is still called Castleport an anglicisation of the old name Port A Chaisleain. So Castleport was also called Port Dunglo.
A pretty piece of jewellery was found near there and is now on display in the Ulster Museum in Belfast. It is referred to as the Castleport Brooch. It is from an earlier period and may not have had anything to do with the fort.
The Sweeneys were a warlike gallowglass or mercenary sept who came to Ireland from the Herbredies of Scotland in the early Middle Ages and in return for fighting for the Gaelic utah jazz Chieftains were given lands in Ireland by different places from Cork to Donegal. They fought using an axe and shield but also had a short dagger strapped to their leg. The strapped dagger is probably the origin of the name Mac Suibhne na Midog- the Sweeneys of the Dagger . They also had the dagger in their coat of arms. They were a Viking sept who became Gaelic and Gaelic speaking after they settled in Scotland. In Donegal they served the O’Donnells and got/or took land at Doe, Fanad, Templecrone (Dún Gleo) and Bannagh (Dunkineely). I assume they built the castle at Dungloe using limestone they brought in by sea in a galley. There may have been an existing castle there that they took over or captured. Dún Gleo has often been translated as Happy Fort but that is probably not correct. utah jazz Gleo can mean a ‘happy noise’ but it can also mean a noise associated with war and combat. I think John O Donovan used the translation Fort of contention and although I do not think that was strictly accurate I can see what he was getting at. The locals may have associated their new rulers with war and noise of war rather than happiness. Dun Gleo probably mean The Noisy Fort (Of War). The Boyles were the rulers of Templecrone before the arrival of the Sweeneys but they were pushed further south to below the Gweebarra by the Sweeneys.
Mac Suibhne utah jazz Na dTuath (McSwiney Ado) in 1600 was Maolmhuire An Bhata Buí (Myles or Mulmurry of the Yellow Stick). utah jazz At a time when many Irish leaders often changed sides, for sometimes understandable reasons of fear or perhaps less laudable motivation of personal ambition, he made a habit of it. There was this titanic struggle between utah jazz the Gaelic Irish and the English and in Mc Suibhne utah jazz Na dTuaths view it was hard to know what side to back. One side was more dangerous than the other. He managed to cheat the Irish and betray the English in fairly quick succession. He was a great survivor and managed to get back on side with the English and keep some of his lands in the Plantation of Ulster. He built Dunfanaghy. He lost all of the Rosses land (Templecrone) but that was probably the least of his worries. He kept his head at a time when many did not. On the 1600 Lord Mountjoy map, the last map showing Ulster be