Qualla: Aughleam https://qualla.com/aughleam 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/8/g/aughleam-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Aughleam https://qualla.com/aughleam Aughleam: Introduction https://qualla.com/aughleam/ Photo credit Robert Bone, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name comes from a horse. Eachléim - the Irish form of Aughleam - means 'horse's leap,' and local folklore holds that a horse once jumped from the eastern edge of the townland to the west, marking out the village's borders in a single bound. Whether the horse was real or a way of explaining ancient boundaries no one can now remember, the name has stuck for centuries. Aughleam sits on the Mullet Peninsula in Erris, North Mayo, a thin sliver of Gaeltacht country reaching out into the Atlantic. It is small, exposed, and Irish-speaking; the wind moves through the village constantly; and at its centre stands a heritage centre dedicated to a woman who lived here in the sixth century.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/aughleam-wp/gc8g-aughleam-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aughleam: Ionad Deirbhile https://qualla.com/aughleam/ Photo credit Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. The heritage centre - Ionad Deirbhile - was built to look like a traditional thatched cottage, low-roofed and white-walled, so that it would not jar against the older buildings around it. Inside, the centrepiece is a 10-foot stained glass window depicting Saint Deirbhile, a repli...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/aughleam-wp/gc8g-aughleam-ionad-deirbhile.mp3 0:06 2 full Aughleam: Saint Deirbhile, Sixth Century https://qualla.com/aughleam/ Photo credit Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Deirbhile - or Dairbhile - is one of the obscurer of Ireland's early Christian saints, but her presence on the Mullet is everywhere. The sixth-century church that bears her name stands a short distance from Aughleam at Fallmore, on a knoll above the sea. Her holy well is nearby. ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/aughleam-wp/gc8g-aughleam-saint-deirbhile-sixth-century.mp3 0:06 3 full Aughleam: Gaeltacht on the Edge https://qualla.com/aughleam/ Photo credit Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Aughleam is part of the Mayo Gaeltacht - the small constellation of communities along this coast where Irish is still spoken as a daily language, not just learned in schools. Population pressure, emigration, and the slow gravitational pull of English have shrunk these communities...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/aughleam-wp/gc8g-aughleam-gaeltacht-on-the-edge.mp3 0:06 4 full Aughleam: Along the R313 https://qualla.com/aughleam/ Photo credit Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. The R313 regional road runs the length of the Mullet Peninsula, and the road through Aughleam is part of the Wild Atlantic Way - Ireland's marked coastal driving route stretching from Donegal to Cork. Stop at the heritage centre. Walk to Saint Deirbhile's Church and well. Look we...

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