Colgan Hall, Carndonagh – in the beginning Seán Beattie After twenty years of fund-raising, an invitation to tender for the construction of the Colgan Hall appeared in the national trade journal The Irish Builder on 17 January 1914. The priest in charge of the project was Fr. Philip O’Doherty, PP, who had previously been curate in the town during the Land War and had earlier returned from Australia. The architect was a youthful Derry man, William J Doherty who was…