Qualla: Ardglass https://qualla.com/ardglass en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/h/ardglass-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ardglass https://qualla.com/ardglass Ardglass: Introduction https://qualla.com/ardglass/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Four stone towers crowd a single small harbour, more medieval tower houses than any other town in Ireland can claim. In the fifteenth century, Ardglass was Ulster's busiest port, and the towers are what the merchants left behind. Jordan's Castle still glowers above Quay Street. King's Castle keeps its watch from the rise. Cowd Castle sits closer to the water. The fourth, now a golf clubhouse, hides its origins behind whitewashed walls. They stand like a frozen council of merchants who once feared what the sea might bring.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/h/ardglass-wp/gcsh-ardglass-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ardglass: The Port That Outlasted Its Heyday https://qualla.com/ardglass/ Photo credit Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ardglass has been a fishing port for more than two thousand years. The natural inlet here, accessible at every state of the tide, gave the Anglo-Norman traders of the late Middle Ages a working harbour while better-placed rivals dried out twice a day. By the 1400s the grain trade...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/h/ardglass-wp/gcsh-ardglass-the-port-that-outlasted-its-heyday.mp3 0:06 2 full Ardglass: Captain Hughes and the Storm https://qualla.com/ardglass/ Photo credit Irishdeltaforce, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 27 November 1838, a great storm tore the new lighthouse off the end of the Ardglass pier and dropped it into the sea. The harbour master who inherited that broken pier in 1845 was Captain Bernard Hughes, a man who would spend the next thirteen years trying to make Ardglass int...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/h/ardglass-wp/gcsh-ardglass-captain-hughes-and-the-storm.mp3 0:06 3 full Ardglass: Castles, Follies and Fishbones https://qualla.com/ardglass/ Photo credit Dean Molyneaux, CC BY-SA 2.0. Francis Joseph Bigger, the Belfast solicitor and Irish nationalist, bought Jordan's Castle in 1911 and rechristened it Castle Sean. He restored its battered tower as a meeting place for the Celtic Revival, hosting figures like the historian Alice Stopford Green among its medieval...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/h/ardglass-wp/gcsh-ardglass-castles-follies-and-fishbones.mp3 0:06 4 full Ardglass: Phennick Cove https://qualla.com/ardglass/ Photo credit CC0. The marina at Ardglass goes by an older name too, Phennick Cove, and on a quiet summer evening with the prawn boats tied up at the South Pier it is easy to forget the harbour was ever anything else. Eight archaeological sites lie within the village, two more nearby. The 1996 cons...

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