Qualla: Ballyhale https://qualla.com/ballyhale 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/6/f/ballyhale-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ballyhale https://qualla.com/ballyhale Ballyhale: Introduction https://qualla.com/ballyhale/ Photo credit Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Eight times the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship has gone to a single small village in County Kilkenny. The hurler with the most All-Ireland medals in history -- ten of them, with the Kilkenny county team -- grew up here. So did one of the most successful trios of brothers in Irish sport. Ballyhale is a place of fewer than 400 people that has dominated the toughest stick-and-ball game in the world for half a century. And out beyond the playing fields, a sandstone quarry holds fossil ferns 400 million years old.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/f/ballyhale-wp/gc6f-ballyhale-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballyhale: The Shamrocks of Ballyhale https://qualla.com/ballyhale/ Photo credit Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Ballyhale Shamrocks GAA was formed in 1972 when the village club amalgamated with Knocktopher and Knockmoylan. They proceeded to become the most successful hurling club in the history of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, winning the title nine times -- in 1981, 19...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/f/ballyhale-wp/gc6f-ballyhale-the-shamrocks-of-ballyhale.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballyhale: Kiltorcan Quarry https://qualla.com/ballyhale/ Photo credit Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0. Above the village rises Kiltorcan Old Quarry, a sandstone outcrop that local authorities designated an area of specific interest in Kilkenny County Council's 2002 development plan. The rock is reputed to be around 400 million years old, dating to the Devonian period -- a time whe...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/f/ballyhale-wp/gc6f-ballyhale-kiltorcan-quarry.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballyhale: Creameries and Co-ops https://qualla.com/ballyhale/ Photo credit Typhoon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Ballyhale Creamery was founded in 1895, the year after the founding of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, which had begun the cooperative movement in Ireland under Horace Plunkett. In 1965 a federation of 25 co-op creameries emerged under the umbrella of Avonmore Creame...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/f/ballyhale-wp/gc6f-ballyhale-creameries-and-co-ops.mp3 0:06 4 full Ballyhale: Monster Meeting, 1832 https://qualla.com/ballyhale/ Photo credit kevin higgins, CC BY-SA 2.0. Before hurling, before the creamery, Ballyhale played a part in one of the strangest gatherings of 19th-century Ireland. In 1832, around 200,000 people gathered in Ballyhale for the trial of those charged in the aftermath of the Battle of Carrickshock -- the violent clash between...

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