Qualla: Donoughmore https://qualla.com/donoughmore 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/1/z/donoughmore-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Donoughmore https://qualla.com/donoughmore Donoughmore: Introduction https://qualla.com/donoughmore/ Photo credit Sarah E. Bond, CC BY 2.0. There is a small parish in the foothills of the Boggeragh Mountains, about 20 kilometres west-northwest of Cork city, where the road signs alternate between Donoughmore and Donaghmore depending on whether the Ordnance Survey or the locals are doing the spelling. Domhnach Mór is the Irish name, meaning roughly "great church." In the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin sits a remarkable hollow bronze sculpture of a forearm and hand - the Shrine of Saint Lachtin's Arm - which originated at the ruined church at Donoughmore Cross. From this same parish came two American Roman Catholic bishops, three passengers on the Titanic, an IRA Civil War battalion, and the name attached to an Anglo-Irish peerage held by people who lived in Tipperary instead. Donoughmore is small. Its outward reach is not.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/donoughmore-wp/gc1z-donoughmore-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Donoughmore: Standing Stones and Saint Lachtin's Arm https://qualla.com/donoughmore/ Photo credit Sarah E. Bond, CC BY 2.0. The earliest residents left behind standing stones and ring forts. Some of those stones carry Ogham script, the linear alphabet of early medieval Ireland, and at least three Ogham stones found in the Donoughmore area are now on display in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin....

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/donoughmore-wp/gc1z-donoughmore-standing-stones-and-saint-lachtins-arm.mp3 0:06 2 full Donoughmore: The Earl Who Lived Elsewhere https://qualla.com/donoughmore/ Photo credit Sarah E. Bond, CC BY 2.0. The title Earl of Donoughmore takes its name from the parish, but its holders did not live there. The story begins with Francis Hely, from neighbouring Kilshannig, who converted to the established Protestant religion and married Prudence Earbery, the daughter of a lease-owner in ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/donoughmore-wp/gc1z-donoughmore-the-earl-who-lived-elsewhere.mp3 0:06 3 full Donoughmore: Titanic Passengers and American Bishops https://qualla.com/donoughmore/ Photo credit Sarah E. Bond, CC BY 2.0. Three people from Donoughmore boarded the RMS Titanic in 1912: William Doherty, Hannah Naughton, and William Foley. All three died when the ship sank. Their deaths place this small inland parish, improbably, in the most famous shipwreck of the twentieth century. The same place pr...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/donoughmore-wp/gc1z-donoughmore-titanic-passengers-and-american-bishops.mp3 0:06 4 full Donoughmore: The Tram, the Butter Road, and Civil War https://qualla.com/donoughmore/ Photo credit Sarah E. Bond, CC BY 2.0. Donoughmore was connected to Cork City by the narrow-gauge Cork and Muskerry Light Railway, which opened in 1893 and closed in 1934. The station sat at the bottom of New Tipperary. The same parish is crossed by an older infrastructure: the Old Kerry Road, an eighteenth- or ninete...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/z/donoughmore-wp/gc1z-donoughmore-the-tram-the-butter-road-and-civil-war.mp3 0:06 5 full Donoughmore: Forty Townlands and Eight All-Ireland Medals https://qualla.com/donoughmore/ Photo credit Sarah E. Bond, CC BY 2.0. Forty townlands make up Donoughmore, divided across three electoral divisions: Firmount, Gowlane, and Kilcullen. The village of Stuake lies at the north end. Two primary schools serve the parish - Scoil Iósaif and St. Lachteen's. Donoughmore was finally electrified between May 19...

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