Kinnea (Irish: Ceann Eich[1]) a townland in the Urris Valley, located in the North-West corner of the Inishowen Peninsula.

It is in the Electoral Division of Dunaff, in Civil Parish of Clonmany, in the Barony of Inishowen East, in County Donegal.

The famine was primarily caused by the failure of the potato crop, which was a staple food for the majority of the Irish population, especially the impoverished rural communities.

Kinnea's proximity to the sea offered alternative food sources which helped limit the population's dependence on potatoes.

[9] Land ownership in Kinnea and the surrounding valley of Urris was highly contentious, with landlords often issuing eviction notices to tenant farmers.

Evictions of tenants in rent arrears was a relatively frequent occurrence, and efforts to remove people from their homes was met by protest.

Patrick McCanny, Owen Doherty, and Denis McCool, were charged with having engaged in a riot and unlawful assembly.

[11] In August 1924, at Carndonagh District Court, Anthony Doherty of Kinnea faced prosecution for harboring poitin, found in his son's room during a neighborhood raid led by Superintendent James O'Halligan.

Notably, the superintendent refrained from pushing for severe penalties, considering Doherty's recent personal hardships, including the loss of his child and his own hospitalization due to enteric fever.

[15] On Friday, 17 August 1962, three fishermen from Rockstown drowned when their lobster boat hit submerged rocks and sank in calm seas off Binion Head.

[17] Later the shattered wreckage of part of the 25-foot boat washed ashore on Ballyliffin Strand, a few hundred yards from Binion Head.

The search party also found three full tea flasks, indicating that tragedy struck before the men had their lunch.

On Monday, frogmen from the "Sea Eagle" Royal Navy Unit found the bodies of John McGilloway Senior and his Son.

The following Tuesday Royal Navy frogmen conducted another search where the bodies of John McGilloway and his son were found.

A rope was entangled in the propeller, which according to the coroner "fouled the engine, causing the boat to drift and strike submerged rocks".

[18] However, pieces of the wreckage were blackened which gave rise to an alternative theory that the boat was destroyed by an explosion on board.