McFeely Roots Tour

The idea for The Mc Feely Roots Tour originated with Mary Bernadette Mc Cann Stone
Mc Feely, from New Jersey, who together with her cousin Dan Mc Feely from Illinois
began researching their Mc Feely roots in 2006.
They knew that their Great Grandfather Michael Mc Feely had emigrated to America from Donegal
in the early 1880s but had no idea where in Donegal Michael had come from.

Dan began his search on the Internet for a Donegal Disaster that would have led to his
ancestors having to emigrate, which eventually led him to John A. Mc Laughlin’s Book
‘Carrowmenagh: History of a Donegal Village and Townland’.
The book told of the evictions in 1881 and mentioned the Mc Feely family name. After further investigation
Dan confirmed that Carrowmenagh was indeed the birthplace of his Great Grandfather,
Michael Mc Feely. This information prompted both Dan and Mary Bernadette to visit this
small coastal village on The Inishowen Peninsula and hence the Mc Feely Roots Tour
2019.
The branch of the Mc Feely family that we all belong to resided in Ballymagaraghy for a
long number of years and later branched out into Carrowmenagh and Bootagh, all local
townlands within a 3 mile radius.

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Four generations –
Mary Rose McFeely McCann, Mary Bernadette, Meredith and baby Alexandra May.

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Dan and his daughter Rachel