Qualla: Cushendall https://qualla.com/cushendall en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/cushendall-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cushendall https://qualla.com/cushendall Cushendall: Introduction https://qualla.com/cushendall/ Photo credit Man vyi, Public domain. From the centre of Cushendall, three glens fan out into the high country behind the village like the spokes of a half-wheel: Glenaan, Glenballyemon, and Glencorp. Above them all looms Lurigethan Mountain, its summit flat as a table, its sides falling sheer to the sea. Across the North Channel, only sixteen miles of grey-blue water away, sits Scotland. Cushendall has always been the place where the three glens come together to meet the wider world, a Georgian village of barely twelve hundred people that locals have long called the unofficial capital of the Antrim Glens.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/cushendall-wp/gcg9-cushendall-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cushendall: Four Streets and a Sandstone Tower https://qualla.com/cushendall/ Photo credit Rossographer, CC BY-SA 2.0. The town you see today was largely laid out in the 19th century by Francis Turnly, a former merchant returned from the Far East, who decided the village needed a small piece of architectural drama. In 1817 he built the Curfew Tower at the central crossroads, a stout sandstone str...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/cushendall-wp/gcg9-cushendall-four-streets-and-a-sandstone-tower.mp3 0:06 2 full Cushendall: Oisin's Grave https://qualla.com/cushendall/ Photo credit Rossographer, CC BY-SA 2.0. On a hillside in Lubitavish, off the road from Cushendall to Ballymoney, sits a megalithic court cairn locally known as Oisin's Grave. The tradition holds that this is the burial place of Oisin, the warrior poet of the old Irish sagas, son of Fionn mac Cumhaill and husband of Nia...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/cushendall-wp/gcg9-cushendall-oisins-grave.mp3 0:06 3 full Cushendall: Layd Church and the MacDonnells https://qualla.com/cushendall/ Photo credit Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0. A short walk north of the village, the ruins of Layd Church stand on a cliff path looking out to sea. Possibly Franciscan in origin and partly dating from the 13th century, Layd served as a parish church from 1306 until around 1790, an unbroken five-century run. It was one of the...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/cushendall-wp/gcg9-cushendall-layd-church-and-the-macdonnells.mp3 0:06 4 full Cushendall: 1922: Three Men in the Street https://qualla.com/cushendall/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cushendall's history is not all glens and harpists. On the night of 23 June 1922, during the early years of the Northern Irish state, several lorries of Ulster Special Constabulary personnel and British Army soldiers drove into the village to enforce a nightly curfew. The USC ope...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/cushendall-wp/gcg9-cushendall-1922-three-men-in-the-street.mp3 0:06 5 full Cushendall: Hurling, Sailing, and the Lurig Run https://qualla.com/cushendall/ Photo credit Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0. Today Cushendall is a working village with strong sporting passions. The local hurling club, Ruairi Og GAC, founded in 1906, plays at Pairc Mhuire and has been Ulster champions eleven times. In 2016 they reached the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling final, losing to Na Piarsaigh of...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/cushendall-wp/gcg9-cushendall-hurling-sailing-and-the-lurig-run.mp3 0:06 6 full Cushendall: A Father of Canadian Confederation https://qualla.com/cushendall/ Photo credit Mike Simms, CC BY-SA 2.0. One last connection. Thomas D'Arcy McGee, who would go on to become one of the Fathers of Canadian Confederation, spent his childhood here in Cushendall when his father was posted to the Coast Guard Service. McGee emigrated to Canada, became a politician, helped negotiate the uni...

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