Qualla: Binghamstown https://qualla.com/binghamstown 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/8/u/binghamstown-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Binghamstown https://qualla.com/binghamstown Binghamstown: Introduction https://qualla.com/binghamstown/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. Major Denis Bingham knew his village was losing. Belmullet, the upstart town to the north, had a new pier, a new road, and a new monthly fair drawing his cattle away. So in the early nineteenth century, he tried something straightforward: he put up a large gate across the road and charged a toll on every animal driven through. The Irish-speakers around him gave Binghamstown its second name, An Geata Mór, the Big Gate. The toll did not save him. By the late nineteenth century the cattle traders had stopped coming altogether, and the Bingham village was emptying. But the name stuck, the way a nickname will when the person behind it is no longer in the room to object.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/u/binghamstown-wp/gc8u-binghamstown-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Binghamstown: A Village Built for a Family https://qualla.com/binghamstown/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. Binghamstown was a landlord's village from its first day. Major Denis Bingham laid it out in 1796 specifically to provide services for the Bingham estate, which dominated the Mullet Peninsula. A castellated house went up that same year on the northern reaches of Elly Bay, complet...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/u/binghamstown-wp/gc8u-binghamstown-a-village-built-for-a-family.mp3 0:06 2 full Binghamstown: The Road That Came Too Late https://qualla.com/binghamstown/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. For twenty years after Binghamstown was founded, there was no proper road into Erris from the rest of County Mayo. The main road from Castlebar was not built until 1817. It only reached the extremity of the peninsula in 1824, and by then a younger and more energetic town, Belmull...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/u/binghamstown-wp/gc8u-binghamstown-the-road-that-came-too-late.mp3 0:06 3 full Binghamstown: A Saleen Bay Pier https://qualla.com/binghamstown/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. Samuel Lewis, writing in 1837, gave Binghamstown what was probably its last good notice: 'A good view of Saleen bay,' he reported, where 'a landing pier has been erected by the late Fishery Board.' The pier was the kind of small infrastructure that could have changed everything i...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/u/binghamstown-wp/gc8u-binghamstown-a-saleen-bay-pier.mp3 0:06 4 full Binghamstown: What Remains https://qualla.com/binghamstown/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. By the 2011 census, the townland counted 106 people across roughly 3 square kilometres. The village sits on the R313, the regional road that runs the length of the Mullet Peninsula from Belmullet south toward Blacksod. Drivers passing through see a small cluster of houses, a few ...

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