Qualla: Cong https://qualla.com/cong 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: Cong https://qualla.com/cong Cong: Introduction https://qualla.com/cong/ Cong, with 145 residents recorded at the 2016 census, sits on the narrows between Lough Mask and Lough Corrib in County Mayo. It has a ruined abbey, a luxury castle hotel, and one piece of mid-twentieth-century film history that has shaped almost everything that has happened in the village since. The film is The Quiet Man. The year was 1952. The director was John Ford, the stars John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and the village has been performing scenes from it, hosting fans of it, and selling souvenirs from it for more than seventy years. It is a strange way for a thousand-year-old village to make a living, but Cong has made it work.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/2/cong-wk/gc92-cong-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cong: Battles of Moytura https://qualla.com/cong/ Before Cong was a film set, it was a battlefield in the oldest stratum of Irish mythology. In the dreamtime, two branches of the tribes of Nemed fought to rule Ireland. The Fir Bolg held the land. The Tuatha De Danann came to claim it, led by Nuada. The decisive Battle of Moytura...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/2/cong-wk/gc92-cong-battles-of-moytura.mp3 0:06 2 full Cong: The Last High King's Retreat https://qualla.com/cong/ The O'Connor or Ua Conchobair dynasty rose to be High Kings of Ireland during the period when the Moytura cycle was being written down. Rory O'Connor, the last effective High King, watched the Anglo-Normans seize ground year by year. In 1186 he retired from Tuam to Cong Abbey, re...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/2/cong-wk/gc92-cong-the-last-high-kings-retreat.mp3 0:06 3 full Cong: The Quiet Man Industry https://qualla.com/cong/ Ford's 1952 film, a romantic comedy starring John Wayne as an Irish-American returning to his ancestral village, was shot largely at Cong and on the grounds of Ashford Castle. It won two Academy Awards including Best Director. Seventy-plus years later, Cong has settled into its r...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/2/cong-wk/gc92-cong-the-quiet-man-industry.mp3 0:06 4 full Cong: Caves and Underground Rivers https://qualla.com/cong/ The Pigeon Hole, a scenic woodland walk that ends at a chasm descending to an underground stream, is where the engineers of the Cong Canal should have looked before they started digging. Water flows from Lough Mask to Lough Corrib through underground channels in the karst limesto...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/2/cong-wk/gc92-cong-caves-and-underground-rivers.mp3 0:06 5 full Cong: Moytura House and Lough Mask House https://qualla.com/cong/ Just west of Cong stands Moytura House, built by Sir William Wilde, the prominent surgeon and antiquarian. His son Oscar Wilde spent boyhood and young adult summers here. It is a private home now and not visible from the road. Ten kilometres northeast lies Lough Mask House, also ...

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