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| Mongavlin Castle from an old newspaper photo |
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The research on our family is now focusing on the McCains in east Donegal from the late 1500s through the 1650s. We continue to have more McCains join and match our family from that area. The first appearance of the McCains in papers records are also from that area. William McKean the Soldier is in the 1630 muster roll for Mongavlin. He was missed by early researchers, perhaps because his forename in written in a phonetic version of the name William in Gaelic. For those of you with maps, look about 2 and 1/2 miles south of StJohnston, that is the epicenter of the early McCains in Ireland. We also now know that a branch of our family moved very early to the Stranorlar area, which is in the Finn Valley. There are still many McCains in our family living in the Finn Valley and just south of StJohnston, in Porthall and Carrickmore.
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