Qualla: Cloyne https://qualla.com/cloyne en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/cloyne-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cloyne https://qualla.com/cloyne Cloyne: Introduction https://qualla.com/cloyne/ Photo credit Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0. A section of the main street fell into the ground sometime in the 20th century. There was no warning. The limestone beneath the town of Cloyne is honeycombed with caves - the longest cave system in County Cork, estimated at up to seven kilometres - and one day part of the road just collapsed into it. The town has been built on this subterranean network for so long that nobody is exactly sure where every cavity runs. Cloyne Cave is accessible from the grounds of a private house on Rock Street, with the owner's permission. Walk the village and you can feel that the ground beneath your boots is not quite as solid as it looks.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/cloyne-wp/gc4p-cloyne-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cloyne: Four Thousand Years of Settlement https://qualla.com/cloyne/ Photo credit Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0. West of the town stands a portal dolmen - a Neolithic burial monument roughly 4,000 years old. People were already living here, dying here, and building monuments here before any historical record of Ireland existed. In 560 AD St Colman Mac Lenine founded his monastery and school...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/cloyne-wp/gc4p-cloyne-four-thousand-years-of-settlement.mp3 0:06 2 full Cloyne: The Round Tower and the Cathedral https://qualla.com/cloyne/ Photo credit Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Cloyne Round Tower is the town's symbol - a slender stone cylinder dating to the 10th or 11th century, raised several centuries after St Colman founded his monastery. In 1749 a lightning strike damaged its top, and the marks of that strike are still visible in the masonry. On...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/cloyne-wp/gc4p-cloyne-the-round-tower-and-the-cathedral.mp3 0:06 3 full Cloyne: The Day the Barracks Burned https://qualla.com/cloyne/ Photo credit Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cloyne's most significant moment of the Irish War of Independence came on 4 May 1920. IRA volunteers of the Fourth Battalion attacked the local Royal Irish Constabulary barracks. They failed at first to get inside, but succeeded in setting the building on fire. The garrison surre...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/cloyne-wp/gc4p-cloyne-the-day-the-barracks-burned.mp3 0:06 4 full Cloyne: Mild Weather, Wet Years https://qualla.com/cloyne/ Photo credit John M, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cloyne sits at the bottom of a valley between hills, less than four kilometres from the open Celtic Sea and only two miles from Cork Harbour. The maritime location gives it a mild climate. Six days of frost in an average year. Snow almost unknown - the exceptions are notable, lik...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/cloyne-wp/gc4p-cloyne-mild-weather-wet-years.mp3 0:06 5 full Cloyne: Berkeley, Ring, and Galveston https://qualla.com/cloyne/ Photo credit Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0. George Berkeley - the philosopher who became Bishop of Cloyne in 1734 and gave his name to the University of California, Berkeley - was Cloyne's most internationally famous resident. But the list of people who came out of this small town is longer than its population would predic...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/cloyne-wp/gc4p-cloyne-berkeley-ring-and-galveston.mp3 0:06 6 full