Qualla: Altnahinch Dam https://qualla.com/altnahinch-dam en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/altnahinch-dam-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Altnahinch Dam https://qualla.com/altnahinch-dam Altnahinch Dam: Introduction https://qualla.com/altnahinch-dam/ Photo credit Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0. The same river that fills the whiskey at Bushmills begins life here, in a quiet upland reservoir tucked against the edge of Slieveanorra Forest. The River Bush rises from springs high in Glenbush, gathers itself into a chain of tributaries, and pools behind a wall of cut basalt before continuing its westward run to the Causeway Coast. Altnahinch Dam is not famous. It does not appear on the tourist brochures of County Antrim, and most visitors driving the coast road have never heard of it. But the entire River Bush story passes through this single point.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/altnahinch-dam-wp/gcg9-altnahinch-dam-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Altnahinch Dam: Stone From the Hill Next Door https://qualla.com/altnahinch-dam/ Photo credit Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0. The dam was built in 1967, a piece of post-war infrastructure for a part of Northern Ireland that had grown out of small mills and small farms. The engineers chose to face it with stone quarried from Corkey, a working pit opened almost three miles away specifically to supply the ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/altnahinch-dam-wp/gcg9-altnahinch-dam-stone-from-the-hill-next-door.mp3 0:06 2 full Altnahinch Dam: Fifteen Bridges to the Sea https://qualla.com/altnahinch-dam/ Photo credit Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0. From the dam, the Bush has roughly twenty-five miles still to travel before it reaches the Atlantic at Portballintrae. Along that route it passes under fifteen road bridges, a small number when you say it quickly, but a generous one for a river of this size. Each bridge marks a c...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/altnahinch-dam-wp/gcg9-altnahinch-dam-fifteen-bridges-to-the-sea.mp3 0:06 3 full Altnahinch Dam: Brown Trout and Rainbows https://qualla.com/altnahinch-dam/ Photo credit Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0. Locals know Altnahinch differently. To them it is one of the better fishing waters in this corner of County Antrim. The reservoir is stocked with native brown trout, the small wild fish that have always lived in the upland Bush, and with rainbow trout for anglers who want the har...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/altnahinch-dam-wp/gcg9-altnahinch-dam-brown-trout-and-rainbows.mp3 0:06 4 full Altnahinch Dam: The Forest Edge https://qualla.com/altnahinch-dam/ Photo credit Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0. Slieveanorra Forest climbs the hill above the reservoir, a state plantation of Sitka spruce planted in the middle of the last century to put working trees on land that had been bare blanket bog. The forest gives the dam its dark backdrop, and the moor above the trees stretches to...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/altnahinch-dam-wp/gcg9-altnahinch-dam-the-forest-edge.mp3 0:06 5 full Altnahinch Dam: An Unobtrusive Beginning https://qualla.com/altnahinch-dam/ Photo credit Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0. Altnahinch is the kind of place that does the work other places get the credit for. The Bushmills brand, the Giant's Causeway tour buses, the famous run of the river through Bushmills village itself, all of it depends on this small upland reservoir holding steady through dry summ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/altnahinch-dam-wp/gcg9-altnahinch-dam-an-unobtrusive-beginning.mp3 0:06 6 full