Qualla: Blacklion https://qualla.com/blacklion 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: Blacklion https://qualla.com/blacklion Blacklion: Introduction https://qualla.com/blacklion/ Stand in the middle of Upper Lough MacNean and you are in three counties at once: Cavan, Leitrim and Fermanagh meet here, with the Republic of Ireland on two sides and Northern Ireland on the third. The village of Blacklion sits at the foot of Cuilcagh Mountain on the Cavan shore, just across a bridge from Belcoo in Fermanagh. Today its most famous resident is Neven Maguire, the celebrity chef whose MacNean House and Restaurant draws diners from across Ireland and the UK. But Blacklion's improbable history runs from a sixteenth-century battle over biscuits to a nineteenth-century coaching inn named for an exotic creature few Cavan farmers had ever seen.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/k/blacklion-wp/gcdk-blacklion-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Blacklion: The Ford of the Biscuits https://qualla.com/blacklion/ In August 1594, an English supply column under Sir Henry Duke was marching from Cavan toward besieged Enniskillen, loaded with provisions for the garrison there. Hugh Maguire of Fermanagh, working with reinforcements from Hugh O'Donnell, set an ambush at a narrow ford a few miles...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/k/blacklion-wp/gcdk-blacklion-the-ford-of-the-biscuits.mp3 0:06 2 full Blacklion: Nicholas Pynner's Patent https://qualla.com/blacklion/ When King James I parcelled out confiscated Gaelic lands during the Plantation of Ulster, the territory of Largay went to an Englishman named Nicholas Pynner. The patent, dated 14 December in the 13th year of James I, granted Pynner 'the Precinct of Toom, containing 4 polls, call...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/k/blacklion-wp/gcdk-blacklion-nicholas-pynners-patent.mp3 0:06 3 full Blacklion: The Black Lion Inn https://qualla.com/blacklion/ The village name changed in the eighteenth century, in honour of a famous coaching inn called the Black Lion. Wilson's Post-Chaise Companion of 1786 records the location: 'About a quarter of a mile to the R. of Largay, or the Black Lion inn, is Belcoo Bridge.' One traveller who t...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/k/blacklion-wp/gcdk-blacklion-the-black-lion-inn.mp3 0:06 4 full Blacklion: The Cavan Burren https://qualla.com/blacklion/ Three kilometres south of Blacklion lies the Cavan Burren Park, a limestone landscape full of Neolithic remains: dolmens, ringed forts, cairns, the Calf House or Druid's Altar portal tomb, and the Giant's Leap wedge tomb. The area was planted with conifers in the 1950s, then part...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/k/blacklion-wp/gcdk-blacklion-the-cavan-burren.mp3 0:06 5 full Blacklion: MacNean and Mac Giolla Ghunna https://qualla.com/blacklion/ Two cultural names define modern Blacklion. The first is the eighteenth-century Gaelic poet Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Ghunna, born in Barran townland three miles from Blacklion. His most famous poem, An Bonnan Bui, 'The Yellow Bittern,' laments the death of a bird that perished from ...

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