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| Mongavlin Castle; copyright 2012 James McKane |
Above is a recent photo of Mongavlin Castle, near Porthall, Donegal. It is here that the first McCain appears in the written records in Ireland. His name in English was William McCain the Soldier. His name is in the 1630 muster roll and is written in a phonetic rendering of his name in Gaelic which was Illime mcKaine. He is unique in that memory of him was kept alive by our McKeen branches in New England and Nova Scotia. For the record, he was a swordsman. Mongavlin Castle was the residence of Fionnuala Ní Dhónaill, better known in Irish history as Iníon Dubh, until 1610. Many of the families that Iníon Dubh brought to Mongavlin were from mid Argyll. Photo courtesy of Jim McKane of Wiarton, Ontario, Canada.
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