In a message dated 12/13/2003 5:17:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, joannecalhoun@webtv.net writes: Joanne Ballyshannon is listed under Parish of Kilbarron; Revd Robert Ball, incumbent. Rents: some town fields near Ballyshannon let for 5 to 6 guineas per annum. Employment is abundant in spring and harvest, but not at all so in the other seasons of the year. Encouragement to the fisheries and the openng of a canal from Ballyshannon to Belleek. Wages were for a servant man from 5pounds to 6 pounds yearly, labourers 1s to 1s 3d a day. The number of poor was considerable. The were labourers and mechanics in and near the town of Ballyshannon. The people in the country parts raised potatoes and a little flax. They were in fairly good health and the most commondisease was rheumatism. Ballyshannon villages were Mobuy, Kildoney, the hamlets of Carricknahorna, Behy, Tullyhork, Knather, Cortia and Lisahully. Janice