Qualla: County Antrim https://qualla.com/county-antrim en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: County Antrim https://qualla.com/county-antrim County Antrim: Introduction https://qualla.com/county-antrim/ On the night of 26 October 1588, off Lacana Point near the Giant's Causeway, the Spanish galleass La Girona ran aground. She had been carrying survivors from at least two other wrecks - perhaps as many as 1,300 people - in a desperate attempt to make the western route home around Scotland and Ireland. Almost everyone aboard drowned. Some of the gold and the silver and the cameo jewellery now sits in the Ulster Museum in Belfast. The Antrim coast had collected one of the great disasters of the Spanish Armada in Ireland. It has been collecting and producing things for a long time. Counties are administrative boxes drawn on maps, but County Antrim is the kind of box that contains a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the wreck of an Armada vessel, the Glens, a national capital, and a coastline that ranks with the most dramatic in Europe.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/8/county-antrim-wp/gcg8-county-antrim-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full County Antrim: Where the Plateau Meets the Sea https://qualla.com/county-antrim/ Antrim sits in the northeast corner of Northern Ireland, occupying 3,086 square kilometres along the northeastern shore of Lough Neagh. The county is the most populous in Northern Ireland - 651,321 people at the 2021 census - and the second most populous on the island of Ireland ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/8/county-antrim-wp/gcg8-county-antrim-where-the-plateau-meets-the-sea.mp3 0:06 2 full County Antrim: Dál Riada, the Vikings, and the MacDonnells https://qualla.com/county-antrim/ In the early Middle Ages, northern Antrim was part of Dál Riada, a kingdom that stretched across the North Channel into what is now western Scotland. The shared sea was a road, not a barrier - Dál Riada is the reason Gaelic survived in both Ireland and the Scottish Highlands. Sou...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/8/county-antrim-wp/gcg8-county-antrim-d-l-riada-the-vikings-and-the-macdonnells.mp3 0:06 3 full County Antrim: Plantation, Partition, and Census https://qualla.com/county-antrim/ Antrim has been Protestant-majority since the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century brought Scottish and English settlers to the region. The 2021 census revealed that those of a Protestant and Other Christian community background were no longer a majority in Antrim, com...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/8/county-antrim-wp/gcg8-county-antrim-plantation-partition-and-census.mp3 0:06 4 full County Antrim: The Glens, the Causeway, Bushmills https://qualla.com/county-antrim/ Three things in Antrim attract the visitors who do not come for Belfast. The Glens of Antrim - nine narrow valleys running down to the eastern coast - hold some of the most isolated rugged landscapes in Ireland. The Giant's Causeway is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the most fa...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/8/county-antrim-wp/gcg8-county-antrim-the-glens-the-causeway-bushmills.mp3 0:06 5 full County Antrim: Lough Neagh, Salmon, and the Bann https://qualla.com/county-antrim/ Lough Neagh - the largest lake in the British Isles - laps the southeastern boundary of County Antrim. Its outflow is the Bann, a river that runs north to the Atlantic and supports one of the great salmon fisheries of these islands. The small town of Toome sits at the outflow and...

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