Qualla: Aghada https://qualla.com/aghada en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Aghada https://qualla.com/aghada Aghada: Introduction https://qualla.com/aghada/ Aghada is small enough that one civil parish covers the whole place: a knot of villages and townlands - Saleen, Rostellan, Farsid, Upper Aghada, Lower Aghada, Whitegate, Guileen, Ballinrostig - stitched together by a few country roads and the eastern shore of Cork Harbour. Twelve kilometres south of Midleton by road, the parish faces Cobh across the harbour mouth and has, for most of its history, been the quieter shore. The loudest things ever to happen here happened during the wars: a US Naval Air Station appeared during the First World War, the Royal Munster Fusiliers reserves were garrisoned in the village, and a sailor born here named William Cosgrove came home with the Victoria Cross and is buried in the cemetery up the hill.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/aghada-wp/gc4n-aghada-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aghada: A Coastline of Small Beaches https://qualla.com/aghada/ Inch Bay. White Bay. Guileen Strand. The eastern shore of Cork Harbour is not the obvious tourist coast of Munster - it lacks the high cliffs of Beara or the Atlantic surf of Kerry - but it has its own quiet appeal. Sheltered water, narrow sandy strands, the wooded edges of Roste...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/aghada-wp/gc4n-aghada-a-coastline-of-small-beaches.mp3 0:06 2 full Aghada: The Victoria Cross in the Hilltop Cemetery https://qualla.com/aghada/ Upper Aghada cemetery, above the village, holds the grave of William Cosgrove - a First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest decoration for valour. Cosgrove served with the Royal Munster Fusiliers, the Irish regiment garrisoned in Aghada during the war yea...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/aghada-wp/gc4n-aghada-the-victoria-cross-in-the-hilltop-cemetery.mp3 0:06 3 full Aghada: The Forgotten American Air Station https://qualla.com/aghada/ The American naval presence at Aghada was brief but real. During the First World War, a United States Naval Air Station was established here - one of a small network of US bases set up along the Irish coast to hunt German U-boats that threatened transatlantic convoys. The station...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/n/aghada-wp/gc4n-aghada-the-forgotten-american-air-station.mp3 0:06 4 full Aghada: Power, Football, and a 2024 Championship https://qualla.com/aghada/ The largest thing in Aghada now is the power station, which has shaped the local economy since 1980. Beyond the industrial work, the parish keeps the rhythm of an Irish rural community: a thriving GAA club whose ladies' football team beat Éire Óg in the 2024 Cork county final, a ...

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