DONEGAL ASSIZES – CROWN COURT

Michael Gillan stood indicted for shop-lifting in Killybegs, March 1840.

Majee Driscoll sworn as witness – keeps a small shop in Killybegs; there are some wooden panes in the window; they were forced in at night, and a quantity of her shop goods taken away; saw the goods afterwards.

Sergeant O’Brien sworn as witness: Found the goods at Ardara and other places where the prisoner brought them to.

Guilty. To be transported [to Van Diemen’s Land] for ten years.