Qualla: Bundoran https://qualla.com/bundoran 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: Bundoran https://qualla.com/bundoran Bundoran: Introduction https://qualla.com/bundoran/ In 1632, in a Franciscan house in the townland of Magheracar, a friar named Micheal O Cleirigh sat down with three colleagues and began compiling what would become the Annals of the Four Masters, one of the most important historical works ever produced in Ireland. The Bundrowes friary where they worked is long gone, but the Catholic church Canon Kelaghan built on its site in 1859 still stands. In 2012, almost four centuries after the friars finished their annals, National Geographic magazine put Bundoran on a different kind of list: one of the world's top twenty surf towns. The Atlantic that the friars looked out across has turned out to deliver some of the best waves in Europe.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/j/bundoran-wp/gcdj-bundoran-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bundoran: The Foot of the Little Water https://qualla.com/bundoran/ Bun Dobhrain, the Irish name, means 'the foot of the little water,' referring to the small River Bradoge that flows into the Atlantic here at the southwestern corner of County Donegal. The first written reference dates to 1606, in a letter from Attorney General John Davies descri...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/j/bundoran-wp/gcdj-bundoran-the-bathing-box-era.mp3 0:06 3 full Bundoran: The Central Hotel Fire https://qualla.com/bundoran/ On 8 August 1980, a fire broke out at the Central Hotel in the heart of Bundoran. Ten people died, including five children. The town has marked the loss in several ways. In September 2008, a stained glass window made by the renowned Irish artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931), which ha...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/j/bundoran-wp/gcdj-bundoran-the-central-hotel-fire.mp3 0:06 4 full Bundoran: The Fairy Bridges and the Surf https://qualla.com/bundoran/ On the Roguey Walk near Tullan Strand, a natural sea arch known as the Fairy Bridges and an adjacent rock formation called the Wishing Chair were said to be Bundoran's first tourist attraction in the late 1700s. The Victorian artist Helen Allingham painted the place. In 2020, the...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/j/bundoran-wp/gcdj-bundoran-the-fairy-bridges-and-the-surf.mp3 0:06 5 full Bundoran: Vardon's Course and Meatloaf's Concert https://qualla.com/bundoran/ The Bundoran Golf Club was founded in 1894 and laid out on the historic Great Northern Railway site, with old railway sleepers running along the course edges. The 18-hole, par 70 course was designed by Harry Vardon, the six-time Open champion, whose design philosophy was 'to give...

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