Qualla: Castlederg https://qualla.com/castlederg 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: Castlederg https://qualla.com/castlederg Castlederg: Introduction https://qualla.com/castlederg/ On the morning of 23 December 2010, the thermometer in Castlederg dropped to a level no Northern Irish weather station had ever recorded. Eleven years later, on 21 July 2021, the same town hit 31.3°C - a new record in the other direction. Castlederg now holds both extremes for the entire province, hot and cold, a curious distinction for a small market town on the River Derg in west Tyrone. The town has always been a place of contrasts. A Bronze Age cauldron, dated to between 700 and 600 BC, was pulled from local ground in 2011. The ruined castle that gave the town its name still stands beside the river. And during the Troubles, twenty-five people died in and around Castlederg - a heavy toll for a place of fewer than three thousand.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/x/castlederg-wp/gcdx-castlederg-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Castlederg: By the Derg https://qualla.com/castlederg/ Castlederg sits in the townlands of Castlesessagh and Churchtown, in the historic barony of Omagh West, near the border with County Donegal. The River Derg gives the town its name - in older Irish, Caslán an Daoirge, the castle on the Derg. The castle itself, now Derg Castle, is ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/x/castlederg-wp/gcdx-castlederg-twenty-five-names.mp3 0:06 3 full Castlederg: Hottest and Coldest https://qualla.com/castlederg/ What makes Castlederg meteorologically remarkable is its sheltered river valley. Cold air on a still winter night pools and pools again - and in December 2010, during one of the United Kingdom's coldest winters in a generation, the temperature plunged to Northern Ireland's lowest...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/x/castlederg-wp/gcdx-castlederg-hottest-and-coldest.mp3 0:06 4 full Castlederg: Footballers and Writers https://qualla.com/castlederg/ For a small place, Castlederg has produced more than its share of names. Conor Bradley - the Liverpool and Northern Ireland defender - grew up here. So did Ivan Sproule, the former Hibernian winger. The novelist Michelle Gallen - author of Big Girl Small Town and Factory Girls, b...

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