Qualla: Abbeyside, Dungarvan https://qualla.com/abbeyside-dungarvan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Abbeyside, Dungarvan https://qualla.com/abbeyside-dungarvan Abbeyside, Dungarvan: Introduction https://qualla.com/abbeyside-dungarvan/ Across the Colligan River from Dungarvan proper, on the east bank where the Augustinian friars built their abbey, sits the townland of Abbeyside. Its proudest moment came in a Cambridge laboratory in 1932, when a young man from this small Waterford village helped split the atomic nucleus for the first time in history. Ernest Walton was born in a house on Friar's Walk just a few yards from the now-vanished MacGrath's Castle. Sixty years later he would share the Nobel Prize in Physics. The plaque marking his birthplace is easy to miss. So is most of Abbeyside, if you don't know where to look.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/8/abbeyside-dungarvan-wp/gc68-abbeyside-dungarvan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Abbeyside, Dungarvan: Across the River https://qualla.com/abbeyside-dungarvan/ Abbeyside lies on the east bank of the Colligan River, where it widens into Dungarvan Harbour and meets the Atlantic. The name means Dún na Mainistreach in Irish - the fort of the monastery - and refers to the Augustinian abbey that once stood here. A causeway and bridge connect ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/8/abbeyside-dungarvan-wp/gc68-abbeyside-dungarvan-across-the-river.mp3 0:06 2 full Abbeyside, Dungarvan: MacGrath's Castle https://qualla.com/abbeyside-dungarvan/ For more than three centuries the silhouette over Abbeyside belonged to MacGrath's Castle, a six-storey tower house built by the MacGrath family and labelled MacCragh's Castle in the Civil Survey of 1654. It stood near the abbey on Friar's Walk, overlooking the harbour. Visitors ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/8/abbeyside-dungarvan-wp/gc68-abbeyside-dungarvan-macgraths-castle.mp3 0:06 3 full Abbeyside, Dungarvan: Ernest Walton and the Atom https://qualla.com/abbeyside-dungarvan/ Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was born in Abbeyside on 6 October 1903, the son of a Methodist minister. He went on through Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College Dublin to Cambridge, where in 1932 he and John Cockcroft built the high-voltage particle accelerator that bombard...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/8/abbeyside-dungarvan-wp/gc68-abbeyside-dungarvan-ernest-walton-and-the-atom.mp3 0:06 4 full Abbeyside, Dungarvan: The Pursers https://qualla.com/abbeyside-dungarvan/ Abbeyside has produced more than physicists. Louis Claude Purser, born on 28 September 1854, became one of the great classical scholars of his generation, professor of Latin at Trinity College Dublin and editor of the standard scholarly edition of Cicero's letters. His older sist...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/8/abbeyside-dungarvan-wp/gc68-abbeyside-dungarvan-the-pursers.mp3 0:06 5 full Abbeyside, Dungarvan: The Village Now https://qualla.com/abbeyside-dungarvan/ Modern Abbeyside is a residential part of Greater Dungarvan with one foot still in the village. The local Abbeyside/Ballinacourty GAA club fields senior teams in both hurling and Gaelic football, the two codes that dominate any Waterford parish worth its salt. Abbeyside AFC plays...

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