Qualla: Caherdaniel https://qualla.com/caherdaniel en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Caherdaniel https://qualla.com/caherdaniel Caherdaniel: Introduction https://qualla.com/caherdaniel/ The village is so small you could miss the turn. Caherdaniel sits at a T-junction on the N70, the south-facing curve of the Ring of Kerry, where the road bends toward Derrynane Bay and the Atlantic opens up beyond. But the name itself is a clue: Cathair Donaill, Donal's stone fort. The land here has been worth defending, worth naming, worth remembering, for four thousand years.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/caherdaniel-wp/gc0y-caherdaniel-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Caherdaniel: Copper Beneath the Bracken https://qualla.com/caherdaniel/ Long before anyone wrote down a place name, miners worked these hills. Copper ore was extracted at Caherdaniel as early as around 2000 BC - among the oldest mining sites in Ireland. The Bronze Age communities who came up the Iveragh Peninsula's coastline left their tools, their h...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/caherdaniel-wp/gc0y-caherdaniel-copper-beneath-the-bracken.mp3 0:06 2 full Caherdaniel: The Liberator's Country https://qualla.com/caherdaniel/ Derrynane House, just down the road in the next townland, was the home of Daniel O'Connell - the political genius who won Catholic Emancipation for Ireland in 1829 and whose memorial statue dominates Dublin's main thoroughfare. The O'Connell family's deep roots run all through Ca...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/caherdaniel-wp/gc0y-caherdaniel-the-liberators-country.mp3 0:06 3 full Caherdaniel: Kathleen and the Commander https://qualla.com/caherdaniel/ Two more recent figures from Caherdaniel earned national fame in very different ways. Kathleen O'Connell (1888-1956) - a distant relation of the Liberator - became personal secretary to Eamon de Valera, the founding leader of independent Ireland. She accompanied him through revol...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/caherdaniel-wp/gc0y-caherdaniel-kathleen-and-the-commander.mp3 0:06 4 full Caherdaniel: A Small Place at the Edge https://qualla.com/caherdaniel/ What Caherdaniel offers a visitor is not spectacle but layering. You can stand at the T-junction and walk to a Bronze Age copper site. Drive five minutes to a national historic park dedicated to Ireland's most consequential nineteenth-century politician. Climb the ridge to a ston...

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