Conway Mill Trust

During the 17 Century, a local landlord in Buncrana, Co Donegal, offered the near starving peasants a bowl of soup if they would attend Protestant services.  However, the soup was only offered on Fridays (probably had meat in it) and it had to be consumed in public.  Anyone taking the soup was then labeled by his neighbors with the name Friday in front of his surname, i.e. Friday Doherty.