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BREADY 1 CLAUDY COUNTY 2 8 DONEGAL DUNAMANAGH DUNNALONG LIFFORD SPERRIN MOUNTAINS 3 SPERRIN CASTLEFIN 4 A RURAL COMMUNITY SHAPED BY VICTORI A BRIDGE DOUGLAS 5 BRIDGE BOTH HIGHLAND AND LOWLAND SCOTS 7

KILLETER KILLEN 6 Bready, largely a farming community in the most northerly corner of , formed part of the land grant made to James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, under the terms of the Ulster Plantation in 1610. The name given to this block of land was the ‘manor of Dunnalong’. Illustrations from top In the course of the 17th century these lands were settled largely by people from Scotland, giving Artist’s impression of Dunnalong Fort, circa 1568 Courtesy Derry City Council Heritage & Museum Service the area the distinctive Scottish feel that survives to this day . This cultural legacy is evidenced by Scottish Redshank soldier, circa 1577 the development of the Sollus Centre and the different activities undertaken by the Bready & Courtesy Barry R. McCain District Ulster-Scots Development Association. The $1 and $100,000 dollar bills Two miles from here on the east bank of the River Foyle is Dunnalong. The name means ‘fort of the ships’ and it is possible that this was once the site of a Viking encampment. In 1568 Turlough Luineach O’Neill, chieftain of the O’Neills, built a tower house at Dunnalong, replacing an earlier fortification. It was a place of immense strategic value, providing a customary landing place for Scottish galleys bringing mercenary soldiers – the feared Redshanks –to fight in the OLIVER POLLOCK AND THE U.S. DOLLAR The family of Oliver Pollock (d. 1823) farmed at ongoing disputes between Gaelic chieftains of the North West . Many more of these highly skilled , near Bready. He made a fortune mercenaries were to arrive at Dunnalong following Turlough Luineach’s marriage to Lady Agnes as a merchant in America and helped to finance the Campbell, aunt of the Earl of Argyll, in 1569. In 1600, during the Nine Years’ War, English troops American War of Independence. Pollock is credited built a star-shaped artillery fort around O’Neill’s castle. At its height the garrison here numbered with inventing the dollar symbol. The largest over 1,000 men. denomination ever printed was the 1934 $100,000 dollar bill, which featured President Woodrow Wilson. Today nothing at all survives except a piece of carved stone, possibly part of a staircase in Turlough His grandfather– James Wilson– emigrated from Luineach’s castle. The earthen ramparts gradually wore down or were removed in the pursuit of the nearby townland of Dergalt in 1807. The Wilson agricultural improvement, while the stone castle would have been quarried for building stone. ancestral homestead can still be visited today.

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