Qualla: Abbeydorney https://qualla.com/abbeydorney en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/1/abbeydorney-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Abbeydorney https://qualla.com/abbeydorney Abbeydorney: Introduction https://qualla.com/abbeydorney/ Photo credit User: (WT-shared) Plug at wts wikivoyage, Public domain. In Irish, the name is Mainistir Ó dTorna - the monastery of the Ó Torna people - though the monks who built it in 1154 preferred a Greek phrase: Kyrie Eleison, Lord have mercy. Eight centuries of Cistercian Mass-going dissolved under Henry VIII in 1537, and what's left of the abbey is now a pile of stones in a field north of a village of 418 people. The village kept the name. Abbeydorney sits 9 kilometres north of Tralee in the agricultural flat country of North Kerry, where Bronze Age ringforts still ripple the landscape and a hurling team founded in 1885 just won the county championship after a fifty-year wait.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/1/abbeydorney-wp/gc31-abbeydorney-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Abbeydorney: The Cistercians and Their Mercy https://qualla.com/abbeydorney/ Photo credit Mucklagh, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Cistercian order arrived in Ireland in 1142, brought by St. Malachy of Armagh after he saw the white-robed monks at Clairvaux in France. Within a generation, Cistercian houses were spreading across the island, including Abbeydorney Abbey in 1154. The Cistercians chose isolate...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/1/abbeydorney-wp/gc31-abbeydorney-the-cistercians-and-their-mercy.mp3 0:06 2 full Abbeydorney: Hayshed and Creamery https://qualla.com/abbeydorney/ Photo credit Riversting, CC BY-SA 4.0. By the late 19th century, Abbeydorney was a village of farmers, shopkeepers, and the institutions of cooperative agriculture. The Abbeydorney Co-operative Dairy Society formed in 1895, part of the Plunkett movement that was transforming Irish dairying. A petty sessions courthouse...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/1/abbeydorney-wp/gc31-abbeydorney-hayshed-and-creamery.mp3 0:06 3 full Abbeydorney: Rebuilding with American Help https://qualla.com/abbeydorney/ Photo credit DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0. After the burnings, money for rebuilding came from an unexpected source: the American Committee for Relief in Ireland, distributed through the Irish White Cross. American sympathy for Ireland was intense in the early 1920s, particularly among Irish-American communities watching t...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/1/abbeydorney-wp/gc31-abbeydorney-rebuilding-with-american-help.mp3 0:06 4 full Abbeydorney: The Crossroads Problem https://qualla.com/abbeydorney/ Photo credit Pmk58, CC BY-SA 4.0. The village is built around a junction where three roads meet: the R556 between Tralee and Ballyduff, the R557 east to Listowel, and the L2002 Bridge Road named for a railway bridge it once crossed. The railway came in 1880 and closed in stages between 1963 and 1978 - first passe...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/1/abbeydorney-wp/gc31-abbeydorney-the-crossroads-problem.mp3 0:06 5 full Abbeydorney: Hurling on a Sunday https://qualla.com/abbeydorney/ Photo credit Paulw62, CC BY-SA 4.0. Abbeydorney GAA, founded in 1885, is among the oldest clubs in Kerry. In a county famous for Gaelic football - the only football that matters in Killarney - Abbeydorney plays hurling, the faster, fiercer game with its ash sticks and small leather ball. The club has won five count...

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