Qualla: Ballymote https://qualla.com/ballymote 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/9/g/ballymote-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ballymote https://qualla.com/ballymote Ballymote: Introduction https://qualla.com/ballymote/ Photo credit User:FoekeNoppert, CC BY-SA 3.0. In the 1390s, somewhere in or near this small market town, a scribe sat down to compile a manuscript that would survive everything that came after. The Book of Ballymote ran to hundreds of vellum pages: genealogies of Irish kings, the legendary history of the country, a treatise on ogham script, an Irish translation of the tale of Troy. Six centuries later it sits in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, still legible, still studied. The town that lent its name to it is now a commuter stop on the Dublin to Sligo line, but the manuscript carries Ballymote into every serious bookshelf of medieval Irish learning. Not bad for a place of seventeen hundred people.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/g/ballymote-wp/gc9g-ballymote-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballymote: The Mightiest Castle in Connacht https://qualla.com/ballymote/ Photo credit The.Q, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ballymote Castle was raised in 1300 by Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and earned the title of the last and the mightiest of the Norman castles in Connacht. The Annals of the Four Masters record it twice: in 1300, when the castle was commenced by the Earl, and in 1317, when it ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/g/ballymote-wp/gc9g-ballymote-the-mightiest-castle-in-connacht.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballymote: The Linen Experiment https://qualla.com/ballymote/ Photo credit Willie Duffin, CC BY-SA 2.0. When John Fitzmaurice, Lord Shelburne, bought the Ballymote estate in 1753, he found the land uncultivated and the inhabitants - all Roman Catholic - subsisting on herding cattle. He decided to make Ballymote a linen town. Cottages were built for Protestant weavers and spinners b...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/g/ballymote-wp/gc9g-ballymote-the-linen-experiment.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballymote: The Fighting 69th https://qualla.com/ballymote/ Photo credit User:The.Q, CC BY-SA 2.5. On 22 August 2006, Michael Bloomberg - then Mayor of New York City - travelled to Ballymote to unveil Ireland's national monument to the 69th Infantry Regiment, the unit known to American history as The Fighting 69th. The monument honours Michael Corcoran, who was born nearby and...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/g/ballymote-wp/gc9g-ballymote-the-fighting-69th.mp3 0:06 4 full Ballymote: Brother Walfrid https://qualla.com/ballymote/ Photo credit Willie Duffin, CC BY-SA 2.0. Andrew Kerins was born near Ballymote in 1840. He took religious vows with the Marist Brothers and became Brother Walfrid. In Glasgow's Catholic East End, he watched Irish immigrant families starve through the soup kitchens of the 1880s, and in 1887 he founded a football club to ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/g/ballymote-wp/gc9g-ballymote-brother-walfrid.mp3 0:06 5 full Ballymote: Generals of the Habsburg Service https://qualla.com/ballymote/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two field marshals of the Habsburg empire were born here. Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford (1639-1704), commanded Imperial forces under the Holy Roman Emperor and helped defeat the Ottomans at Vienna. His cousin Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe (1685-1769), also rose t...

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