Qualla: Artigarvan https://qualla.com/artigarvan 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/f/8/artigarvan-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Artigarvan https://qualla.com/artigarvan Artigarvan: Introduction https://qualla.com/artigarvan/ Photo credit PointUnderstander, CC BY-SA 4.0. Artigarvan means height of Garbhan's house. No one quite remembers who Garbhan was, but the name has clung to a Glenmornan Valley village for centuries, repeated on Ulster-Scots tongues as Airtigarvan, fixed onto road signs and council registers. Today some 802 people live here, three miles from Strabane and four from Donemana, on the fertile alluvial plain where the Glenmornan River bends through County Tyrone. The village is small enough to know everyone, and complicated enough that the 2021 census recorded sixteen different combinations of national identity among its residents. Garbhan, whoever he was, picked a thoughtful place to put his house.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/8/artigarvan-wp/gcf8-artigarvan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Artigarvan: The Waterwheel https://qualla.com/artigarvan/ Photo credit PointUnderstander, CC BY-SA 4.0. Before the village had a Spar and a Lakeland Dairies creamery, it had mills - a cornmill, a paper mill, a spade factory - all powered by the same Glenmornan River whose disused mill still stands somewhere near the village edge. One of the local waterwheels, according to librarian...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/8/artigarvan-wp/gcf8-artigarvan-the-waterwheel.mp3 0:06 2 full Artigarvan: Walking the Boundaries https://qualla.com/artigarvan/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. Artigarvan townland covers just 174 acres - a postage stamp by Irish standards - but the village as people actually live in it sprawls across the neighbouring townlands of Milltown, Glebe, and Liscurry. All sit inside the historic barony of Strabane Lower and the civil parish of ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/8/artigarvan-wp/gcf8-artigarvan-walking-the-boundaries.mp3 0:06 3 full Artigarvan: Identity in Numbers https://qualla.com/artigarvan/ Photo credit PointUnderstander, CC BY-SA 4.0. The 2021 census made the village's complexity unusually visible. Of 800 residents who answered the national identity question, 447 called themselves British only, 176 Northern Irish only, 75 Irish only, and 67 some combination of British and Northern Irish. Another 18 chose vario...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/8/artigarvan-wp/gcf8-artigarvan-identity-in-numbers.mp3 0:06 4 full Artigarvan: Lord Laird of Artigarvan https://qualla.com/artigarvan/ Photo credit PointUnderstander, CC BY-SA 4.0. When John Laird became a life peer in the House of Lords, he had to choose a place name for his title. He picked the village his mother Margaret came from - Lord Laird of Artigarvan - in her honour. A former unionist politician known for his charismatic and at times controversial...

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