Kinnea (Irish: Ceann Eich) 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. It borders the following other townlands: Dunaff to the west; Letter to the south; Straid to the south and Tullagh to the east. It has four subtownlands; Rockstown (Irish: Baile na Creige), Altnacullentra, Kindrohid (Irish: Ceann Droichid) and Crocknagee (Irish: Croc na gaoithe). Kinnea has an area of 227.53 hectares (562.23 acres). Etymology The name Kinnea is an anglicization of Ceann Eich, meaning Horse's Head. The area is commonly known as Rockstown. This name was introduced in the 17th century by English settlers, which supplanted the much older Gaelic name of Kinnea. History The townland is not mentioned in the Civil Survey - a cadastral survey of landholdings in Ireland carried out in 1654–56, nor in the Down Survey of 1655. The townland is mapped in William Mc Crea's "A Map of County Donegal" published in 1801. It is also referenced in the Griffiths Valuation of the 1850s. The townland is also mentioned in the Irish Census' of 1901 and 1911. In the 1860s, Rockstown is recorded as having a harbour. Kinnea is mentioned the 1814 Statistical Account (Parochial Survey of Ireland). The Survey described the land ownership:"A part of the lands of this Parish (Clonmany) belongs to the Bishop of Derry, and the remainder was the fee-simple estate of the Marquis of Donegal until the year 1810, when the townlands of Tullagh, Kinnea, Letter, Dunaff, and Urrismana, Leenan...were sold...to Sir Robert Harvey."The Survey also indicated that Arthur Chichester, MP owned a small villa in Roxtown (Kinnea). During the 19th century, there was a coast-guard station in Kindrohid. It is marked on the maps used in the Griffiths Valuation. Great Famine Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland suffered a catastrophic famine due to a potato blight, which destroyed the primary source of food for the poorest sections of society. There are no direct records of the death toll in Kinnea. A comparison of the 1841 and 1851 census indicates that the population fell from 241 to 205; a decline of 14.5 percent. While it is not possible to attribute that decline to famine-related deaths or to immigration, the number of inhabited houses remained constant during that period, suggesting that the