Qualla: Charleville https://qualla.com/charleville-county-cork en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Charleville https://qualla.com/charleville-county-cork Charleville: Introduction https://qualla.com/charleville-county-cork/ Cheestrings. Sliced, peelable, kid-marketed cheese sticks launched in 1994, now sold in Ireland, the UK, and most of mainland Europe. They are made in Charleville. The Kerry Foods plant here is the town's largest employer, and the curious truth is that this small Golden Vale town - 60 km north of Cork city, 40 km south of Limerick - has been quietly central to Munster life for nearly four centuries while keeping itself out of most history books. It was founded in 1661 by a former supporter of Cromwell trying to convince a restored king of his loyalty. It was renamed in 1920 by Sinn Fein after a king who turned out not to exist. It produced an Archbishop of Melbourne, a First Lady of Paraguay, the Chief Poet of Munster, and the longest-running Taoiseach in Irish history. And it makes most of Europe's Cheestrings.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/c/charleville-county-cork-wp/gc3c-charleville-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Charleville: From Rathgoggan to Charleville https://qualla.com/charleville-county-cork/ Before the town there was a ringfort, a rath - Cogan's rath, named for Miles de Cogan, granted the lands after the Norman invasion of 1169. The Irish name Rath an Chogain (anglicized as Rathgoggan or Rathcogan) stuck to the civil parish for centuries. When Roger Boyle, 1st Earl o...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/c/charleville-county-cork-wp/gc3c-charleville-from-rathgoggan-to-charleville.mp3 0:06 2 full Charleville: An Ancient King Who Wasn't https://qualla.com/charleville-county-cork/ After the 1920 local elections, Sinn Fein-controlled councils across Ireland set about replacing English monarchic place names with older Gaelic ones. Charleville Rural District Council looked at the options. They could have gone back to Rathgoggan. Instead they took the advice o...

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