After Father Doherty had left, the people condemned his interference, and said they would not allow any stranger to be buried in the graveyard.

When Constable Brady put it to those present that their real objection did not lie in the fact that Cavanagh had been a stranger, he was not contradicted.
The body was ultimately buried at Carndonagh on Saturday, several people remaining in the graveyard at Clonmany all through the night (Friday) till the body was taken to Carndonagh for burial.
At Carndonagh Petty Sessions, on the 18th July 1888, Con.

Doherty and Owen Doherty, with five others, were prosecuted for unlawful assembly on the occasion above referred to.

The first two named, who were the ringleaders, were convicted, and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment each with hard labour; the charges against the remainder were dismissed.
NOTE I.
POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS.
(Vol.i.p.

117; vol.ii.pp.