Qualla: Bansha https://qualla.com/bansha en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Bansha https://qualla.com/bansha Bansha: Introduction https://qualla.com/bansha/ Two streets, two lanes, one bridge over the River Ara - by any measure of size, Bansha is a small place. Yet for a few decades in the middle of the twentieth century, the rest of Ireland called it the Model Parish, and people came from every county to see how rural life could be reinvented in the shadow of the Galtees. Set between Tipperary Town and the Glen of Aherlow, on the eastern flank of Ireland's highest inland mountain, this village has produced senators, poets, and soldiers far out of proportion to its population, and it once sent the descendants of Gaelic princes to the court of Louis XVI.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/6/bansha-wp/gc66-bansha-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bansha: Under the Galtees https://qualla.com/bansha/ Bansha sits in the Golden Vale, the great limestone basin that stretches across south Tipperary and gives Ireland some of its finest pasture. Just south of the village rises Galtymore, at 917 metres the highest inland peak in the country, with the wooded Glen of Aherlow opening w...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/6/bansha-wp/gc66-bansha-under-the-galtees.mp3 0:06 2 full Bansha: The Model Parish https://qualla.com/bansha/ In 1946 the parish got a new priest, and that changed everything. Canon John Hayes, founder of Muintir na Tíre - 'People of the Land' - had built a national movement around the idea that rural Ireland could organise itself for its own renewal. When he was appointed to Bansha and ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/6/bansha-wp/gc66-bansha-the-model-parish.mp3 0:06 3 full Bansha: Soldiers, Poets, and Counts https://qualla.com/bansha/ For its size, Bansha has put a remarkable number of people on the public stage. Sir William Francis Butler, a Lieutenant-General who had fought from the Ashanti campaigns to the Zulu War and grew sympathetic to the people he was sent to subdue, retired to Bansha Castle in 1905 an...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/6/bansha-wp/gc66-bansha-soldiers-poets-and-counts.mp3 0:06 4 full Bansha: The McCarthys of Springhouse https://qualla.com/bansha/ On the outskirts of Bansha once stood a mansion called Springhouse, named for a well beside a whitethorn tree at the back of the house. From the late 17th century it was the seat of Denis McCarthy Reagh, descended from the Princes of Carbery, and his estate of nine thousand acres...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/6/bansha-wp/gc66-bansha-the-mccarthys-of-springhouse.mp3 0:06 5 full Bansha: Quiet Currents https://qualla.com/bansha/ Modern Bansha is a commuter village now, with people driving each morning to Tipperary, Cahir, and Clonmel. But the rhythms still hold. The agricultural show comes round every August. The Galtee Rovers, affiliated to the GAA since 1885, play hurling and football just outside the ...

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