Qualla: Carndonagh https://qualla.com/carndonagh en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/f/carndonagh-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Carndonagh https://qualla.com/carndonagh Carndonagh: Introduction https://qualla.com/carndonagh/ Photo credit Jasonm, CC BY-SA 3.0. Standing in the centre of Carndonagh, in the part everyone calls The Diamond, you are about two hours' drive from Belfast, fifty minutes from Derry, and just a few miles south of the most northerly point of land on the Irish mainland. The town itself has fewer than 2,800 people, but its high cross is one of the oldest in Europe and probably the oldest standing in Ireland. The Donagh Cross dates to the seventh century. Beside it stand two smaller stones called guard stones, named for Dismas and Gestas, the thieves crucified beside Christ. They have been weathering side by side for thirteen hundred years. The cross was carved when the Vikings had not yet reached Ireland.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/f/carndonagh-wk/gcff-carndonagh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Carndonagh: The Diamond and the Donagh Cross https://qualla.com/carndonagh/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. Carndonagh is built around two focal points. The Diamond is the open square at the town centre, with a Saturday market from 11 to 4 and a clutch of pubs (Joyce's, Glen Bar, Tully's, Persian Bar) keeping the late evening trade. Just southside is the Church of the Sacred Heart, com...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/f/carndonagh-wk/gcff-carndonagh-the-diamond-and-the-donagh-cross.mp3 0:06 2 full Carndonagh: Five Fingers, Knockamany, and Malin Head https://qualla.com/carndonagh/ Photo credit Luke Carré, CC BY-SA 4.0. North of Carndonagh the land rises and falls toward the Atlantic. Malin is the attractive small village twelve kilometres north that gives its name to the headland beyond. Five Fingers Strand, named for the parallel fingers of sand reaching out from the dunes, is one of the most ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/f/carndonagh-wk/gcff-carndonagh-five-fingers-knockamany-and-malin-head.mp3 0:06 3 full Carndonagh: Carrickabraghy, Glashedy, and the Wrecks https://qualla.com/carndonagh/ Photo credit Patrice78500, Public domain. Northwest of Carndonagh, past Ballyliffin, sits the ruined sixteenth-century Carrickabraghy Castle at the western tip of the Isle of Doagh, in Pollan Bay. From 834 to 1215 AD Carrickabraghy appears in the Annals of the Four Masters, mostly recording the violent deaths of its lord...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/f/carndonagh-wk/gcff-carndonagh-carrickabraghy-glashedy-and-the-wrecks.mp3 0:06 4 full Carndonagh: The Inishowen 100 https://qualla.com/carndonagh/ Photo credit MaxPride at English Wikipedia (Original text: MaxPride (talk)), CC BY-SA 3.0. If you have a day, drive the Inishowen 100, a signposted scenic loop of about a hundred miles around the perimeter of the peninsula. It coincides for much of its length with the Wild Atlantic Way, the 2,500-kilometre coastal itinerary running from Malin Head down to Kinsale in Co...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/f/carndonagh-wk/gcff-carndonagh-the-inishowen-100.mp3 0:06 5 full Carndonagh: Inishtrahull and Tory Beyond https://qualla.com/carndonagh/ Photo credit NorthernCounties, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ten kilometres north of Malin Head lies Ireland's most northerly island, Inishtrahull, with the Tor Rocks lurking another kilometre further north. The Irish name, Inis Tra Thuathail, means the island of the empty beach. Its fishing community left in 1929. The lighthouse keepers s...

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