Qualla: Bawnboy https://qualla.com/bawnboy 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: Bawnboy https://qualla.com/bawnboy Bawnboy: Introduction https://qualla.com/bawnboy/ Bawnboy means "yellow cattle stronghold." The first half, *bawn* — anglicised from the Irish *badhún* — was the defensive wall that surrounded an Irish tower house, built specifically to protect cattle when raiders came. The second half, "boy" or *buí*, means yellow. Stand at the small village today, in a valley at the foot of Slieve Rushen between Ballyconnell and Swanlinbar, and the colour makes sense: yellow gorse on the slopes in summer, yellow bog cotton in the marshes, the *Achadh an Bhuí Eanaigh* ("the Field of the Yellow Bog") that the medieval Irish names recorded centuries before Walter Talbot's plantation came to this corner of Cavan.

Read more: Bawnboy on Qualla

]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/e/bawnboy-wp/gcde-bawnboy-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bawnboy: The McGoverns' Ballybetagh https://qualla.com/bawnboy/ In medieval times, Bawnboy belonged to the McGovern chiefs of Tullyhaw. The barony was divided into seven economic units called ballibetoes — from the Irish *Baile Biataigh*, "the provisioner's town" — and Bawnboy sat in the one named Balleagheboynagh, the Town of the Marshy Plai...

Read more: Bawnboy on Qualla

]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/e/bawnboy-wp/gcde-bawnboy-the-mcgoverns-ballybetagh.mp3 0:06 2 full Bawnboy: The Workhouse That Will Not Fall https://qualla.com/bawnboy/ The most prominent surviving building in Bawnboy is its Victorian workhouse, built in 1853. Like all workhouses of its era it was constructed to a standard design — austere, institutional, deliberately uncomfortable — to provide minimal relief to the destitute after the Great Fam...

Read more: Bawnboy on Qualla

]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/e/bawnboy-wp/gcde-bawnboy-the-workhouse-that-will-not-fall.mp3 0:06 3 full Bawnboy: The First Farming Society https://qualla.com/bawnboy/ In 1800, Bawnboy did something that mattered to the entire county: it founded County Cavan's first farming society. Sir Charles Coote, surveying Cavan in 1801, reported on it with enthusiasm. The society was presided over by Nathaniel Sneyd, a Member of Parliament for Cavan and t...

Read more: Bawnboy on Qualla

]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/e/bawnboy-wp/gcde-bawnboy-the-first-farming-society.mp3 0:06 4 full Bawnboy: Children of the Parish https://qualla.com/bawnboy/ Bawnboy is part of the ancient parish of Templeport, said to be the birthplace of Saint Mogue — the sixth-century missionary who founded monasteries across Ireland and Wales. The village school has had many names over the decades. As St Mogue's National School in the early twenti...

Read more: Bawnboy on Qualla

]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/e/bawnboy-wp/gcde-bawnboy-children-of-the-parish.mp3 0:06 5 full Bawnboy: Modern Voices https://qualla.com/bawnboy/ Bawnboy in 2026 is still small, still defined by the valley it sits in. The Cavan and Leitrim Railway used to stop here at Bawnboy Road station — opened in 1887, closed in 1959 — and Leydons Coaches still run a bus through the village on the route between Cavan town and Enniskill...

Read more: Bawnboy on Qualla

]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/e/bawnboy-wp/gcde-bawnboy-modern-voices.mp3 0:06 6 full