Qualla: Ahascragh https://qualla.com/ahascragh en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/ahascragh-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ahascragh https://qualla.com/ahascragh Ahascragh: Introduction https://qualla.com/ahascragh/ Photo credit Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0. Áth Eascrach—'the ford of the gravel ridge'—is the Irish original. The ford is across the Ahascragh River, also called the Bunowen, a tributary of the River Suck. The gravel ridge is glacial: the kame and esker country of east Galway, where the last ice age left long sinuous mounds of sorted material that the local roads still follow. Modern Ahascragh is a single street and a handful of side lanes, population 186 at the 2022 census, eleven kilometres north-west of Ballinasloe. From this address, in the past two centuries, came one of Ireland's most internationally famous milliners, two former Tánaistí, and a saint whose death was recorded in the Annals of the Four Masters in 788 A.D.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/ahascragh-wp/gc6p-ahascragh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ahascragh: Saint Cuan and the Battle https://qualla.com/ahascragh/ Photo credit Sarah777, Public domain. The patron saint of Ahascragh is Saint Cuan, whose death the Annals of the Four Masters mark in 788. The Annals are also where you find the next significant event: in 1307, English forces clashed with the local O'Kelly chieftains in the Battle of Ahascragh. The O'Kellys—Uí Maine,...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/ahascragh-wp/gc6p-ahascragh-saint-cuan-and-the-battle.mp3 0:06 2 full Ahascragh: Two Anglo-Irish Estates https://qualla.com/ahascragh/ Photo credit National Library of Ireland on The Commons, Public domain. The plantations transferred Ahascragh's productive land from the O'Kellys to two Anglo-Irish families. The Mahons settled at Castlegar from the late seventeenth century, intermarrying with the Brownes of Westport and gaining a baronetcy in 1819. By the 1870s the Castlegar estate ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/ahascragh-wp/gc6p-ahascragh-two-anglo-irish-estates.mp3 0:06 3 full Ahascragh: The Workmen of Clonbrock https://qualla.com/ahascragh/ Photo credit Sarah777, Public domain. Some of the most arresting photographs in the National Library of Ireland collection were taken at Clonbrock in the 1870s by the Dillon family themselves—amateur photographers using the new wet-plate technology to record their estate workers. The portraits show gardeners, masons,...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/ahascragh-wp/gc6p-ahascragh-the-workmen-of-clonbrock.mp3 0:06 4 full Ahascragh: The Hat-Maker and the Politicians https://qualla.com/ahascragh/ Photo credit Sarah777, Public domain. Philip Treacy was born and raised on Church Street in Ahascragh in 1967. He went on to become one of the most celebrated milliners of his generation, designing hats for Madonna, Lady Gaga, and the British royal family. The hats worn by the Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie at the 2...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/ahascragh-wp/gc6p-ahascragh-the-hat-maker-and-the-politicians.mp3 0:06 5 full Ahascragh: Don't Feed the Gondolas https://qualla.com/ahascragh/ Photo credit Sarah777, Public domain. In the late 1990s, RTÉ aired a satirical comedy show called Don't Feed the Gondolas, presented by Sean Moncrieff. Each episode ended with a sketch satirising small-village Ireland through the fictional 'Head of the Parish Co-mit-tea' Monica Loolly, a Mrs-Doyle-style stereotype of...

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