Qualla: Ballaugh (Parish) https://qualla.com/ballaugh-parish 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: Ballaugh (Parish) https://qualla.com/ballaugh-parish Ballaugh (Parish): Introduction https://qualla.com/ballaugh-parish/ Balley-ny-Loghey, in old Manx, meant the place of the lake. The lake itself has been gone for about three hundred years - drained by the cutting of the Lhen Trench, a long man-made channel believed to follow the path of a meltwater stream from the last ice age. What remains is the parish that took its name from the water, and the Ballaugh Curraghs: a marshy depression of bog pools, birch woodland, willow scrub, and grassland that has somehow become one of the most quietly significant wetlands in the Irish Sea region. In summer the curragh hosts the last breeding populations of a bird most of Europe has already lost. In winter it hosts the largest roost of hen harriers on the western edge of the continent.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/ballaugh-parish-wp/gcsu-ballaugh-parish-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballaugh (Parish): Three Miles of Coast https://qualla.com/ballaugh-parish/ Ballaugh occupies a three-mile stretch of the north-western coast of the Isle of Man, in the traditional North Side division and the sheading of Michael. The parish is roughly three miles wide and covers about nine square miles in total. The south-eastern corner is hilly; the res...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/ballaugh-parish-wp/gcsu-ballaugh-parish-three-miles-of-coast.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballaugh (Parish): Hen Harriers and Corn Crakes https://qualla.com/ballaugh-parish/ In 2006 the Ballaugh Curragh became the first wildlife site on the Isle of Man to be designated under the Ramsar Convention - the international treaty that protects wetlands of global importance. The qualification is technical, but the reasons are concrete. The curragh contains e...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/ballaugh-parish-wp/gcsu-ballaugh-parish-hen-harriers-and-corn-crakes.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballaugh (Parish): A Zoo, a Drained Lake, a Quiet Place https://qualla.com/ballaugh-parish/ Curraghs Wildlife Park sits one mile east of Ballaugh village, occupying part of the same wetland complex. Most of the park is arranged in geographical sections, representing different continents and the animals that live there; the central area carries more specific exhibits. Th...

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