Qualla: Carncastle https://qualla.com/carncastle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Carncastle https://qualla.com/carncastle Carncastle: Introduction https://qualla.com/carncastle/ Sixty-six people lived in Carncastle at the last full census count, and yet the village has somehow gathered more strange and disparate stories than places ten times its size. A Bronze Age promontory fort. A Presbyterian congregation older than the Bank of England. A shipwrecked Spanish sailor whose pocket of chestnuts may or may not have grown into a tree. And, just above the village on the basalt escarpment of Knock Dhu, the spot where Ned Stark beheaded a deserter from the Night's Watch in the first episode of Game of Thrones. Carncastle is small. It is not quiet.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/b/carncastle-wp/gcgb-carncastle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Carncastle: An Older Presbytery Than You Think https://qualla.com/carncastle/ Cairncastle Presbyterian Church traces its founding congregation to 1646, just four years after the establishment of the Presbytery of Carrickfergus, the oldest Presbytery in Ireland. That makes it one of the very oldest Presbyterian congregations on the island. Down the road, St...

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