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Rh DOLPHINSTON. 775 DONACAVEY. Dublin, prov. of Leinster, Ireland. It is situated on the (.iraii'l eaual, which is crossed hero by C'amao Bridge, and (in the road to Crumlin. DOLPHINSTON, a vil. in the par. of Prrstonpans, in tin' co. ot Haddington, Scotland. It stands 2 miles V. of Tranent, near an old castle, on the road from IMinburgh to Haddington. Iml.l'llIXTON, a par. in the Upper ward district i-l' the co. of Lanark, Scotland. It is hounded on the X. and E. by 1'eelileshire, and on the S. and V. by the pars, of Wulston and Dunsyre, and is 3 miles Ion;; from 10. to W., by 2J broad. It lies at an elevation of about 700 feet above the sea, but is all arable, with the exception of Dolphinton Hill and Keir Hill. The soil is a dry sandy !.iam. The road from Biggar to Edinburgh in' the parish, which is in the presb. of Biggar, and synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, and in the patron, of Lord s. The minister has a stipend of 158. Dol- i hintim is believed to have taken its name from having been the property of Dolfin, eldest brother of Cospatrick, first Earl of Dunbar. Not long after it formed part of the baronial territory of Bothwell, and after that reverted to the crown, and was given by James III. in 14S3 to Sir James Ramsay. In 1488 James IV. conferred it on Patrick Hepburn, Lord Hales, the master of his house- hold, in which family it remained until 1567, when it was forfeited along with the other possessions of the Earl of Bothwell. In 1593, on the attainder of Francis Stewart, Earl of Bothwell, it became the property of the ancestors of the present house of Douglas ; but for many years, up to the middle of the last century, the greater part of the parish was owned by a family of the name of Brown, who v.-as succeeded in 1755 by Mr. Kenneth M'Krnzie. Major Learmont, one of the soldiers of the Covenant, owned the property of Newholme in this parish, in the churchyard of which he was buried in 1693, in the 88th year of his age. DOLPH1STON, a hmlt. in the par. of Oxnam, in the co. of Roxburgh, Scotland. It ia situated on the right bank of the Jed, 4 miles S.E. of Jedburgh. DOLTON, a par. in the hund. of North Tawton, in the w. of Devon, 7 miles S.E. of Bideford, and 7 N.E. of Hatherleigh. Torrington is its post town. It is led by the new road from Exeter to Bideford, and ia much frequented by different species of birds, among which are the heron, bittern, and quail. The land i.s chiefly arable, and there are 74 acres of orchard. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Exeter, val. 405, in the patron, of the Rev. P. T. Johnson. The church is dedicated to St. Edmund. There is a National school. Fairs were formerly held in March and October, but are at present discontinued. DOLWAR, a tnshp. in the par. of Llanfihangel, in the co. of Montgomery, 5 miles S.W. of Llanfair. DOLWEX, a tnshp. in the par. of Llansaintfraid, co. of Montgomery, 4 miles N.E. of Llanfyllin. It is a station on the Oswestry, Llanidloes, and Newtown railway. DOL-WYDDELAN, a par. in the hund. of Nant- Conway, in the co. of Carnarvon, 6 miles S.W. of Llanrwst. It is situated on the river Lledr, under Moel Siabod. There are still remains of the old castle in which Llewelyn the Great was born, and which after- wards descended to the Berkenets and the Gwynnes. Of the two towers which existed in Pennant's time, only one remains, with a small portion of a wall of great thickness. The village is one of the rudest and most primitive in Wales, situated in a wild and lovely valley, entirely surrounded by mountains. The living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Bangor, val. 107, in the patron, of Lord Willoughby d'Eresby. The church, dedicated to St. Gwyrelan, was built by Meredydd-ap- Jevan, who is stated to have purchased the castle in the reign of Henry VII. The Independents and Calvinistic Methodists have places of worship here. Fairs are held on the 16th April, loth August, and 20th September. DOL-Y-GARROG, a tnshp. in the par. of Llanbedr- y-Cennin, in the co. of Carnarvon, 7 miles S. of Conway. It is pleasantly situated on the river Conway, and con- tains the hmlt. of Ardda. DOMGAY, a tnshp. in the par. of Llandysilio, in tho co. of Montgomery, 7 miles N.E. of Llanfyllin. DOMINICK, ST., a par. in the hund. of Middle East, in the co. of Cornwall, 9 miles N.E. of Liskeard, and 2| S.E. of Callingtoii. It is situated near the river Tamar, and includes the tnshp. of Halton, where Francis Rous. the Speaker of the House of Commons, and the friend of Cromwell, was born in 1579. The living is a rect. in the dioc. of Exeter, val. 318, in the patron, of the Rev. F. L. Bazeley. There are remains of a Roman entrenchment in the vicinity, and of a monastery at Baber. DON, a river in the co. of Aberdeen, Scotland. It rises on the eastern slopes of Ben Aven, to the W. of Corgarff, at the head of Strath-Don, and among the mountains which form the south-western boundaiy of Aberdeenshire. It runs eastward to the N. of the Dec, and in a direction more or less parallel with that river, for a course of 62 miles, until it flows into the German Ocean, a short distance N. of Aberdeen. About a cen- tury and a half ago, the channel of the Don was altered to the northward of its former position, and has since been confined by piles to a point eastward of the new bridge of Don and the Brig of Balgownie. There is reason to believe, from the works of Ptolemy and Richard of Cirencester that in ancient times the Don flowed southward along the links to the E. of the towns of Old and New Aberdeen, and joined the river Dee at its mouth before reaching the sea. This river, like its neighbour the Dee, has within the last century been subject to periodical floods or spates as they are called in the district. The most notable of these occurred in 1768, 1799, and 1829. They were occasioned by a rain- fall of some days' duration, and, happening in the autumn when the crops were still ungathered or growing, com- mitted great devastation on the low and flat grounds bordering the stream. Since the last catastrophe many of the lianghs, or low grounds, have been protected by embankments. This river, like the Doe, possesses valu- able salmon fishings. DON, a river in the West Riding of tho co. of York. It rises in the moors, 6 miles S.W. of Peniston,and runs about 50 miles, past Sheffield, Rotherham, Conisborough, Doncaster, and Thorne, into the river Aire at Goole, near Snaith. DON, for names with this prefix, see also Dirx. DONABATE, a par. and post town in the bar. of Nethercross, in the co. of Dublin, prov. of Leinster, Ire- land, 3 miles N.E. of Swords. It is a station on the Drogheda railway. The parish is situated on the shore of the harbour of Malahide. The soil is variable, upon a basis of limestone and porphyry. The town stands on the road from Swords to Portrane, and is said to be of Danish origin. The living is a vie. in the dioc. of Dublin, val. with Portrane, 93, in the patron, of the Archbishop of Dublin. Tho church is situated on a neighbouring eminence, and contains a marble monu- ment to Dr. Cobbe, the late Archbishop of Dublin. There is a Roman Catholic chapel. Near the town is Newbridge, once the residence of the Rev. Mr. Pilking- ton, author of a Dictionary of Painters. Within this mansion are several valuable pictures. Here are ruins of a chapel, containing monuments of the Barnewalls, ancestors of the present Lord Trimleston, whose present seat is Turvey, in this parish. DONACARNEY, a vil. in the bar. of Lower Duleek, co. Meath, 3 miles E. of Drogheda. DONACAVEY, or DONOGHEAVY, called also FINDONAGH, a par. in the bare, of Clogher and East Omagh, in the co. of Tyrone, prov. of Ulster, Ireland, containing Fintona, its post town. It is situated on the road from Omagh to Enniskillin. The service is hilly and bleak, with bog and moor. Tho soil is of middling qualitv. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in linen "weaving. The living is a rect. in the dioc. ot Clogher, val. 737, in the patron, of the bishop. The church is a commodious building, erected in 1G41 in place of the old one, which was destroyed during the wars. There are two Roman Catholic chapels, two meet-