Qualla: Ballabeg https://qualla.com/ballabeg en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ballabeg https://qualla.com/ballabeg Ballabeg: Introduction https://qualla.com/ballabeg/ Captain John Quilliam, First Lieutenant of HMS Victory, took the wheel when the steering shot away during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Nelson's flagship kept her line because a Manx farmer's son refused to let her drift. Quilliam was born in Marown, fought in the greatest naval battle of the Napoleonic wars, lived to be sixty, and is buried in the graveyard of St Columba's parish church in Ballabeg - a small Manx village whose name in the island's language means, plainly, the small homestead.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/ballabeg-wp/gcse-ballabeg-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballabeg: Balley Beg https://qualla.com/ballabeg/ Ballabeg sits in the parish of Arbory, in the sheading of Rushen, in the south of the Isle of Man near Castletown. The name is Manx Gaelic - Balley Beg, the small homestead - and although the modern spelling has drifted, the pronunciation has not. For most of its history the vill...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/ballabeg-wp/gcse-ballabeg-balley-beg.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballabeg: St Columba and His Day https://qualla.com/ballabeg/ The Arbory parish church of St Columba stands in Ballabeg, its grey pebbledashed walls covering an older whitewashed core. The current building was dedicated in 1759 by Bishop Mark Hildesley, but archaeologists think it sits on the foundations of an early Christian keeill - a tin...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/ballabeg-wp/gcse-ballabeg-st-columba-and-his-day.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballabeg: The Hairpin and the Steam Train https://qualla.com/ballabeg/ On most days Ballabeg is a quiet farming village whose residents commute to Douglas, fifteen miles north over the central hills. Two weeks of the year, it becomes a grandstand. The A28 - the road from Castletown to Colby - runs through the village at a hairpin junction, and that ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/ballabeg-wp/gcse-ballabeg-the-hairpin-and-the-steam-train.mp3 0:06 4 full Ballabeg: Quilliam at the Wheel https://qualla.com/ballabeg/ But the village's deepest claim on history lies under a slab in the churchyard. Born in 1771 in nearby Marown, John Quilliam went to sea young, rose through the ranks of the Royal Navy, and at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805 was serving as First Lieutenant of HMS Victory. When the f...

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