GWEEDORE  , a

hamlet and tourist resort of Co . Donegal, Ireland, on the Londonderry & Lough Swilly & Letterkenny railway . The river Clady, running past the village from the Nacung Loughs, affords salmon and trout fishing . The fine surrounding scenery culminates to the east in the wild mountain Errigal (2466 ft.) at the upper end of the loughs . The place owes its popularity as a resort to Lord George Hill (d . 1899), who also laboured for the amelioration of the conditions of the peasantry on his estate, and combated the Rundale system of minute repartition of property . In 1889, during the troubles which arose out of evictions, Gweedore was the headquarters of the Irish constabulary, when District Inspector Martin was openly murdered on attempting to arrest a priest on his way to Mass .