The Londonderry Standard, 22 July 1884, records evidence given by Connell Cannon, cattle-dealer and grazier in Donegal Town, originally of Drimkeelan, in support of an extension of the West Donegal Railway from Druminin to Donegal Town.

Although Connell felt that the proposed railway extension would be of great benefit to the town, it appears his brother-in-law Jerome Boyce was of a different view. Boyce, one of the few large ratepayers who had not signed Connell Cannon’s petition in favour of the railway extension, was a promoter of a rival railway company, the Castlecaulfield Railway.