>From an article in a back issue of Irish Geography written by T . Jones Hughes of University College Dublin that I found on the internet: "At a time when all seemed lost to the Gael in Cooley, the peninsula- in common with parts of north Leinster and north Connacht, especially those areas of the drumlin belt that lay adjacent to the planted counties of Ulster- came, from the seventeenth century to act as areas of refuge for the dispossessed. Large family groups such as those bearing the names Rice, Traynor, MacCann and O'Neill, which were so numerous in the mountain localities of Omeath, Glenmore and Ballymackellet in the nineteenth century, could trace their ancestry to Armagh, Tyrone, Derry and even to Donegal." In the 1901 census a number of the older inhabitants of the area who were born in Co. Louth have put down that they speak Irish as well as English, including a 60 year old Patrick McBride living in Rampark.