In 1878 Neil Friel signed an agreement with the Leitrim estate as a yearly tenant for houses in Carrigart. He ran a public house there, but when he married Rose Coyle he moved to Downings, and his property in Carrigart was taken over by his brother Michael, who built a small hotel there about 1890. He married Catherine Denniston of Drimdutton, built the present Carrigart Hotel in 1910, and died in 1916. The hotel was run by the Friel family for some years after this. In 1934 it was taken over by Miss M. A. Maguire. [From More About Mevagh, 2nd Edition, p51]
Holtel (tm) Carrigart is now owned and managed by the Walsh family