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Donal a'Chinn
Donal Browne, born Aghavoy, around 1700, had the gift of
prophecy. It is said that he lay out one summer's day and
on walking found a book under his head - a book which no one
but himself could read. He was supposed to have got knowledge
from this book. He kept going around- staying a week here
and a week there.
He said there would be coaches on the roads without horses.
Cocks would crow in the east and the whole world would here
them.
"Ins a cheathrúbhlian
déag beidh oracaí snámh ar broinn.
A seiseach bhliain déag beidh Eire dearg le fuil.
An tochtú bliain deag beidh na priosúin Ian
de dhaoine gan choir.
An naoú bliain deag mo bhrón cá deachaidh
na fir."
The time will come when there will be fighting under the
sea, on the sea, under the ground and in the air. It was said
that a light used to come to him at night and that he got
knowledge from it and that the people of the house would hear
him talk when the light came. One night in Commeen, the people
of the house decided to sit and wait until the light came.
After the room lit up they could hear murmuring. When one
of them made a noise, the light went out.
Donal said that the Glenfin people would get a new chapel
built. When it would be a good while in use, some people would
feel that it wasn't good enough. They would start gathering
money to build a new one and that they would be a long time
in getting it erected. A priest named Gallagher would start
the new one but would not live to see it finished.
When he was old, he was spending the night in Cloncleigh.
Next morning he told them he was on his last journey and that
he would die in Tonduff two nights later. He spent the next
night in Kilraun. He would take no breakfast in the morning.
He told them the time he would die the following night. Also
the place in the room where his deathbed would be. On entering
the house in Tonduff he ordered them to put on a pot of water
which would soon be needed to wash him. He then went to bed
and died.
Cloncleigh viewed from across
the River Finn at Brockagh, with Kilraun to the left |
