Qualla: Carlingford https://qualla.com/carlingford-county-louth 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: Carlingford https://qualla.com/carlingford-county-louth Carlingford: Introduction https://qualla.com/carlingford-county-louth/ King John spent two days here in 1210. He had crossed the Irish Sea with an army, intent on bringing his Anglo-Norman barons in Ireland back under royal control, and on the way down from Carrickfergus to Dublin he stopped at the castle that Hugh de Lacy had begun building on a rocky outcrop overlooking Carlingford Lough. The castle has carried the king's name ever since. Today it is a substantial ruin standing on its rock above the harbour, the lough opening to the east toward the Irish Sea and the steep flank of Slieve Foy rising sharply behind. The narrow streets of the medieval town still curl around the castle's foot, hardly changed in their footprint since the 14th century.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/e/carlingford-county-louth-wp/gcee-carlingford-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Carlingford: A Town the Vikings Named https://qualla.com/carlingford-county-louth/ The name Carlingford comes from Old Norse: Kerlingfjordhr, the fjord of the hag - a fjord, narrow and dramatic, that the Norse called by reference to one of the rock features above its mouth. Vikings used Carlingford Lough as a sheltered anchorage from the 9th century, and the Hi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/e/carlingford-county-louth-wp/gcee-carlingford-charters-and-oysters.mp3 0:06 3 full Carlingford: The Tholsel https://qualla.com/carlingford-county-louth/ On Tholsel Street stands the only surviving gate of the medieval walled town. The Tholsel - the word means "toll house" - was originally a three-storey gateway over the road into Carlingford, where officials levied taxes on goods entering the market town. The murder-holes set int...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/e/carlingford-county-louth-wp/gcee-carlingford-the-tholsel.mp3 0:06 4 full Carlingford: Ruin and Tourism https://qualla.com/carlingford-county-louth/ The Irish Rebellion of 1641, Cromwell's conquest of Ireland in 1649, and the Williamite War of the 1690s all damaged Carlingford severely. By 1744 the antiquarian Isaac Butler recorded the town as being in "a state of ruin." The herring shoals that had filled the lough for centur...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/e/carlingford-county-louth-wp/gcee-carlingford-ruin-and-tourism.mp3 0:06 5 full Carlingford: Faces from Carlingford https://qualla.com/carlingford-county-louth/ Thomas D'Arcy McGee was born in Carlingford on 13 April 1825. He emigrated to North America, became a Father of Canadian Confederation in 1867, and was assassinated on the steps of his Ottawa boarding house on 7 April 1868 - the first Canadian politician ever to be murdered. The ...

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