Qualla: Donemana https://qualla.com/donemana 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: Donemana https://qualla.com/donemana Donemana: Introduction https://qualla.com/donemana/ Donemana is sometimes called a cricket-mad village. The description is not poetic licence. In the small townland of Dunnamanagh, eleven kilometres north-east of Strabane in the foothills of the Sperrin Mountains, fewer than a thousand people share a couple of churches, two primary schools, a cricket club whose senior team became the first in more than a century to win four successive Senior Cup finals, and a Gaelic football club called Clann na nGael. The village sits where the Burn Dennett tumbles out of the hills on its short run to the Foyle, on the B49 road that links Strabane to Claudy. In Irish the name is Dun na Manach, the fort of the monks. There are no monks left. The cricket has not failed.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/donemana-wp/gcfb-donemana-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Donemana: A Scottish Plantation Village https://qualla.com/donemana/ Donemana was founded in 1609 as part of the Plantation of Ulster, the project under which James I confiscated the lands of the fled Gaelic earls and granted them to Scottish and English settlers. The man who built Donemana was John Drummond, a Scottish undertaker, who put up a ba...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/donemana-wp/gcfb-donemana-a-scottish-plantation-village.mp3 0:06 2 full Donemana: Cricket Country https://qualla.com/donemana/ Why cricket should have flourished in a Tyrone village while elsewhere in Catholic Ireland Gaelic games dominated is partly a story of plantation. Cricket arrived in Ulster with British military regiments and Protestant landowners, took root in the planted parishes, and stayed th...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/donemana-wp/gcfb-donemana-cricket-country.mp3 0:06 3 full Donemana: The Glenelly Ridge https://qualla.com/donemana/ Donemana's other identity is geographic. The village sits at the foot of the Sperrin Mountains, the long quiet range that arcs across the middle of Northern Ireland and never quite gets the attention of the Mournes or the Antrim coast. The B48 road running south from Donemana cli...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/donemana-wp/gcfb-donemana-the-glenelly-ridge.mp3 0:06 4 full Donemana: Politics That Bend https://qualla.com/donemana/ Donemana is still part of West Tyrone for Westminster, a constituency represented by Sinn Féin since 2001 on an abstentionist ticket, and part of the Sperrin DEA on Derry and Strabane District Council. The DEA boundaries are themselves a small example of how Northern Irish politi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/donemana-wp/gcfb-donemana-politics-that-bend.mp3 0:06 5 full Donemana: A Useful Modesty https://qualla.com/donemana/ What makes Donemana worth knowing is, in the end, what makes most plantation villages worth knowing: it has held to a particular shape for a very long time. The B49 still curves through Main Street. The Burn Dennett still pulls out under the bridge. The cricket club still trains ...

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