Qualla: Cahir https://qualla.com/cahir 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: Cahir https://qualla.com/cahir Cahir: Introduction https://qualla.com/cahir/ The Irish name says it before anything else: Cathair Dun Iascaigh, the town of the fort of the fishery. Cahir takes its name from the great stone ringfort - the cathair - that gave way, in the twelfth century, to a Norman castle on an island in the River Suir. The castle is still there. It is one of the best preserved medieval fortresses in Ireland: keep, six towers, thick curtain walls, all sitting on rock in the middle of the river. The Earl of Essex bombarded it in 1599 with cannon and culverin. Oliver Cromwell took it in 1647. Every time it has fallen, it has been rebuilt. In a country that loves ruined castles, Cahir has a complete one. The small heritage town that grew around it sits at the meeting place of two mountain ranges, on the road from Dublin to Cork, in a piece of Tipperary that has been a crossing-point since before the Normans arrived.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/3/cahir-wp/gc63-cahir-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cahir: The fort of the fishery https://qualla.com/cahir/ The first builders who chose this spot were not Anglo-Normans. They were prehistoric people who raised a circular stone ringfort - a cathair - on a small island in the Suir. The river ran fast around the rock, the fish were good, the road north and south crossed here. When the An...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/3/cahir-wp/gc63-cahir-the-fort-of-the-fishery.mp3 0:06 2 full Cahir: Bianconi's coaches at The Galtee Inn https://qualla.com/cahir/ Cahir, along with Clonmel, was the centre of South Tipperary's Quaker population. The Quaker families - Grubb, Going, Walpole - built their meeting house on Abbey Street in 1833 and ran the local milling trades for the next century. The town was an early stop on Charles Bianconi'...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/3/cahir-wp/gc63-cahir-bianconis-coaches-at-the-galtee-inn.mp3 0:06 3 full Cahir: The Swiss Cottage https://qualla.com/cahir/ About a mile downstream from the castle, on a wooded slope above the Suir, stands one of Cahir's stranger buildings: the Swiss Cottage, a thatched ornamental cottage orne designed by John Nash for Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Glengall, around 1810. It is not a Swiss building. It i...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/3/cahir-wp/gc63-cahir-the-swiss-cottage.mp3 0:06 4 full Cahir: Mountains, caves, and a fishing weir https://qualla.com/cahir/ The town sits in a hollow between two of Ireland's significant mountain ranges. The Galtee Mountains form the largest inland range in the country, rising sharply to the northwest with Galtymore at 919 metres. The Knockmealdown Mountains stand to the south, lower but darker, formi...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/3/cahir-wp/gc63-cahir-mountains-caves-and-a-fishing-weir.mp3 0:06 5 full Cahir: A safe house and a Victoria Cross https://qualla.com/cahir/ Like every Tipperary town, Cahir has its share of revolutionary history. Marian Tobin, born in 1870, ran a safe house in the area during the Irish War of Independence; her place was a critical refuge for IRA flying columns in the south Tipperary brigades. Michael Murphy, born in ...

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