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patent to Chichester for the parish church—was purchased from the 
Church Temporalities Commissioners by the present respected Rector 
of Fahan, the Rev. John Canon King. 
Nothing now remains. of the castle belonging to Fahan Abbey 
except the name attached to and retained by the lands. The castle 
itself, which was evidently a square keep, and which is described in 
an account of the places of strength in the O’Doherty’s country, pre- 
vious to the establishment of the English colony by Dockra in Derry 
in 1601, was at that date the residence of the afterwards martyred 
Bishop of Derry, Redmond O’Gallagher. It stood on a slight emi- 
nence adjacent to the eighth mile-post on the Lough Swilly railway. 
The site has long since been devoted to agricultural purposes, and the 
stones used up in the erection of the adjoining house buildings and 
farm works; the foundation lines, however, are still to be seen during 
the low growth of a pasture or grain crop, and are clearly traceable by 
the extra greenness of the crop over the site. 
18 “ Lough Foyle in 1601,’’ MS. tract in State Paper Office. 
