Illustrated Handbook of the Scenery and Antiquities of South-Western Donegal. Dublin: McGlashan & Gil, 1872. First Edition. Pp iv, 128, with 11 plates. Rebound in green cloth boards, original cloth featuring gilt title retained to upper cover. small perforation to inner margins of pages 99-102 (text not affected), otherwise a nice bright copy. Illustrated with eleven plates.

Comprising its Mountains, its Cliffs and its Passes, its Holy Wells, its Old Castles and Abbeys, its Ancient Stone Crosses, Giant’s Graves, and other Remarkable Cyclopean Remains; with Historical Notes on that once Famous Clan in Tir-Connell, Mac Swine of the Battle Axe and its Warrior Chieftain, Niall-Mor: To which is Added, Notices of that Far-Famed Place of Pilgrimage, Lough Derg, and of Torry Island, Blessed by the Labours of the great St. Columb-Cill. With Notes of the Road for Tourists to the Wilds.

Monsignor James Stephens was born in Ballyshannon in the early 19th century. He became parish priest of Taughboyne in 1843 and of Killybegs in 1863.

He was a noted historian, this being his principal published work. He died in 1886.