Qualla: Ballydavid https://qualla.com/ballydavid en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ballydavid https://qualla.com/ballydavid Ballydavid: Introduction https://qualla.com/ballydavid/ The name means 'town of the foreigners,' and for centuries no one has fully agreed on which foreigners gave Baile na nGall its title. Vikings, Spanish fishermen, French sailors, English settlers — the Atlantic carried strangers to this stretch of the Dingle Peninsula for as long as anyone could remember, and one of them, somewhere along the way, was unusual enough to stick in local memory. The village kept the name. In 2003, when the Official Languages Act stripped the anglicised version of Ballydavid from official status, the Irish name became the only one that lawfully exists on government signs.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/ballydavid-wp/gc28-ballydavid-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballydavid: A Question of Names https://qualla.com/ballydavid/ Two names sit on every map of this place, and the relationship between them is fraught. Baile na nGall is the official Irish form — the one that appears on road signs within the Gaeltacht, the one the state recognises. Ballydavid is the anglicised version, an approximation that e...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/ballydavid-wp/gc28-ballydavid-a-question-of-names.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballydavid: Gallarus Castle and the Knight's Tower https://qualla.com/ballydavid/ A short walk from the village stands Gallarus Castle, a 15th-century tower house built by the Knight of Kerry — a hereditary knighthood that belonged to the Fitzgerald or Geraldine dynasty. The Knights of Kerry were one of the great Hiberno-Norman families of Munster, and this sm...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/ballydavid-wp/gc28-ballydavid-gallarus-castle-and-the-knights-tower.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballydavid: Voices on the Airwaves https://qualla.com/ballydavid/ Just outside the village sits a broadcast studio that few Irish-speaking households would fail to recognise. RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta — the national Irish-language radio service — has long maintained a presence here, sending Munster Irish out over the airwaves alongside the diale...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/ballydavid-wp/gc28-ballydavid-voices-on-the-airwaves.mp3 0:06 4 full Ballydavid: Ballydavid Head and the Walking Country https://qualla.com/ballydavid/ Rising behind the village is Ballydavid Head, classified as a Marilyn — a hill with at least 150 metres of relative prominence — at 247 metres of relative height. From the headland, the cliffs drop hard into the Atlantic, and the view sweeps across to the Three Sisters and out to...

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