Qualla: Doonshean https://qualla.com/doonshean 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/2/8/doonshean-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Doonshean https://qualla.com/doonshean Doonshean: Introduction https://qualla.com/doonshean/ Photo credit Andy Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0. Out beyond the small beach at Trá Bheag, a sea stack rises from the water in a shape that the Irish-speaking locals long ago decided looked like a young horse. They called it the Siorrach — 'the foal' — and the name has stuck through centuries of sea-haze and storm. This is Doonshean, or Dún Síon in Irish, a townland of grassy headlands and stone-walled fields a few kilometres east of Dingle. The name itself comes from a nearby promontory fort, Doonmore, where dún means fort and síon derives from síneadh, 'a stretch of land.' The whole place is exactly that: a stretch of land, ending suddenly in cliffs above the Atlantic.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/doonshean-wp/gc28-doonshean-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Doonshean: A Fort on the Edge https://qualla.com/doonshean/ Photo credit Andy Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0. The promontory fort that gives the area its name sits on a finger of land thrust into the sea — a classic Iron Age defensive site of the Atlantic seaboard. To reach it you walk through fields, climbing over stiles in stone walls, until the ground simply runs out. A short defensiv...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/doonshean-wp/gc28-doonshean-a-fort-on-the-edge.mp3 0:06 2 full Doonshean: The Sea Stack Called Foal https://qualla.com/doonshean/ Photo credit Andy Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0. From the beach below, the Siorrach stands offshore, its profile catching the light. Sea stacks form when waves and weather isolate a column of rock from a retreating cliff, leaving it standing alone in the surf. They are temporary in geological terms — every storm chips at them, ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/doonshean-wp/gc28-doonshean-the-sea-stack-called-foal.mp3 0:06 3 full Doonshean: The View Across https://qualla.com/doonshean/ Photo credit Andy Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0. From Doonshean's beach the eye carries across the water to the village of Kinard, sitting on its own small bay in the neighbouring parish of Lispole. Between, Dingle Bay opens wide toward the Iveragh Peninsula on the southern horizon. The headlands here are a tangle of ring forts...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/doonshean-wp/gc28-doonshean-the-view-across.mp3 0:06 4 full Doonshean: Mícheál's Birthplace https://qualla.com/doonshean/ Photo credit Andy Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0. One of Ireland's most beloved voices came from this slope of fields. Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, the legendary Gaelic games commentator whose radio call defined All-Ireland finals for half a century, was born in Dún Síon. His memoir, From Dún Síon to Croke Park, took its title from...

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