Clonallan

The townland itself was originally named after the early Irish church founded there c.595 AD by Saint Dallán Forgaill.

He met Saint Columcille at Coleraine after the Synod of Drumceat c.595, according to Adomnán's Vitae Columbae.

Is é congaib Cluain Dallain i n-Dál Echach i fail Chúain Snama Ech.

[4] The Martrology of Gorman composed c. 1170, repeats this under the feast day of Saint Conall on 2 April,- Great Conall, son of Aed and the marginalia states- from Clúain Dalláin, near Snám Ech, i.e. the Cúan beside Cael in Húi Echach of Ulaid.

[5] The Martrology of Donegal, composed c. 1630, then repeats Gorman- Conall, son of Aedh, of Cluain (i.e., of Cluain-Dallain), near Snamh Each, i.e., the harbour near unto the Cael in Ui-Eathach of Uladh.