Qualla: Claremorris https://qualla.com/claremorris en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/9/claremorris-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Claremorris https://qualla.com/claremorris Claremorris: Introduction https://qualla.com/claremorris/ Photo credit Sarah777 at en.wikipedia, Public domain. Claremorris sits in a bowl. Every road into it descends a hill - the old Knock road, Courthouse road, the rest - and yet, against everything you would expect of a town in that posture, it does not flood. There is no major river through the centre. Two lakes hold their water at the heart of the town, Clare Lough and Mayfield Lough, with a small river running between them. And here, at the junction of the N17 from Galway to Sligo and the N60 from Castlebar to Roscommon, a Mayo market town with 3,857 people at the 2022 census has been quietly growing faster than anywhere else in the county.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/9/claremorris-wp/gc99-claremorris-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Claremorris: The Name and the Norman https://qualla.com/claremorris/ Photo credit Cathedral2012, CC BY-SA 3.0. Claremorris takes its name from Maurice de Prendergast, a Norman who came to Ireland in the 12th century. The first town that grew around the Prendergast presence eventually became the place we know today. The town as a properly laid-out settlement was an 18th-century creation. I...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/9/claremorris-wp/gc99-claremorris-the-name-and-the-norman.mp3 0:06 2 full Claremorris: Land of the Giants https://qualla.com/claremorris/ Photo credit C Michael Hogan, CC BY-SA 2.0. Today the dominant feature in the public landscape is McMahon Park beside Clare Lake, with its tree-lined walks, its angling platforms, and a children's attraction called Land of the Giants. Claremorris has long been known to anglers for its coarse fishing - Northern Pike, Europe...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/9/claremorris-wp/gc99-claremorris-land-of-the-giants.mp3 0:06 3 full Claremorris: The Weather Station and D-Day https://qualla.com/claremorris/ Photo credit James Emmans, CC BY-SA 2.0. Two kilometres outside the town centre is Claremorris Weather Station, one of Ireland's eight inland weather observation posts. It opened in November 1943 and was staffed by a local family. During the Second World War Ireland provided detailed weather reports to the Allies despit...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/9/claremorris-wp/gc99-claremorris-the-weather-station-and-d-day.mp3 0:06 4 full Claremorris: The Bypass and the Railway https://qualla.com/claremorris/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. By the late 1990s, with more than 13,000 vehicles passing through the town every day, the old bank corner on the N17 had become one of Ireland's most infamous traffic bottlenecks. The N17 Claremorris bypass, planned from 1994, finally opened in July 2001 and cut journey times on ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/9/claremorris-wp/gc99-claremorris-the-bypass-and-the-railway.mp3 0:06 5 full Claremorris: Who Came From Here https://qualla.com/claremorris/ Photo credit Störfix, CC BY-SA 3.0. Claremorris's notable sons and daughters span an unusual range. John Cardinal D'Alton, Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1946 to 1963. The composer Patrick Cassidy. The sculptor Edward Delaney. The singer Delia Murphy, collector of Irish ballads. The judge Cono...

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