Qualla: Aclare https://qualla.com/aclare 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: Aclare https://qualla.com/aclare Aclare: Introduction https://qualla.com/aclare/ Two ancient chronicles - the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of the Four Masters - record that in the year 1512 a battle was fought at Belclare Castle in what is now the south-west corner of County Sligo. On one side stood the O'Donnells of Donegal, the great Ulster Gaelic dynasty whose territory ran north to the sea. On the other stood the MacWilliam Burkes, Connacht's dominant Norman-Gaelic lordship. The castle, originally built in the fifteenth century by the O'Hara clan, sat half a mile west of the modern Kilmactigue chapel. Today the village beside the castle ruin is Aclare - Ath an Chlair, the ford of the plain - a quiet settlement on the Inagh river, a tributary of the great River Moy. Buses come on Fridays only.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/e/aclare-wp/gc9e-aclare-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aclare: The Ford of the Plain https://qualla.com/aclare/ Aclare sits in the joint civil and Catholic parish of Kilmactigue, in the hilly country where Sligo meets Mayo. The Inagh river, sometimes spelled Eignagh, runs down out of the surrounding heights and joins the Moy a few kilometres on. The Moy itself is one of the great salmon ri...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/e/aclare-wp/gc9e-aclare-the-ford-of-the-plain.mp3 0:06 2 full Aclare: Belclare Castle and the 1512 Battle https://qualla.com/aclare/ Belclare Castle was a 15th-century tower house associated with the O'Hara clan, one of the dominant Gaelic families of north Connacht. The O'Haras held lands along the upper Moy for centuries, and Belclare was one of several fortified houses they controlled in the area. In 1512, ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/e/aclare-wp/gc9e-aclare-belclare-castle-and-the-1512-battle.mp3 0:06 3 full Aclare: Our Lady of the Rosary https://qualla.com/aclare/ The parish church of Kilmactigue, Our Lady of the Rosary, stands in the village and serves the surrounding Catholic parish. Like many west of Ireland country churches, it is a relatively modest 19th- or early-20th-century building set in a graveyard whose stones go back further. ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/e/aclare-wp/gc9e-aclare-our-lady-of-the-rosary.mp3 0:06 4 full Aclare: Tommy Fleming https://qualla.com/aclare/ Tommy Fleming, the Irish singer, was born in Aclare. He emerged in the early 1990s as a folk and country tenor and built a career across Ireland, Britain and the United States, often touring with his interpretations of traditional Irish ballads and crossover material. For a place...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/e/aclare-wp/gc9e-aclare-tommy-fleming.mp3 0:06 5 full Aclare: Friday's Bus https://qualla.com/aclare/ Bus Eireann route 479 runs once a week, on Fridays, linking Aclare to Sligo town via the larger villages of Tourlestrane, Coolaney and Collooney. It is the public-transport pattern of a place whose population has chosen, in successive generations, to keep going elsewhere - workin...

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