Ballyshannon: Its History and Antiquities. With Some Account of the Surrounding Neighbourhood. Ballyshannon: Donegal Democrat, 1937. Pp 108. Publisher’s blue wrappers lettered in black. A good copy.

Facsimile reprint of the first edition published in Derry by Montgomery, 1879.

Hugh Allingham was born in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal in 1845. He was a half-brother of the poet William Allingham. He worked as a bank manager and was a keen local historian