Carrigans is a small village in the east of County Donegal, Ireland. The village used to be the centre of a flax and linen industry. On the edge of the village is Dunmore House, which was owned by the McClintock family.

In 2014, I was travelling around Ireland researching my great great grandmother Rebecca Jackson, who was transported to Tasmania in 1847. Whilst in Dublin, I found newspaper records of her actions mentioning Carrigans and the notorious Jackson Gang.

Then in Lifford and the Donegal County Archives, I found records of Rebecca’s case in 1847.  There was a Mr McClintock as a magistrate from the Newtown Cunningham area and he tried the cases in the court of Petty Sessions.