Qualla: Drumlane https://qualla.com/drumlane en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/e/drumlane-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Drumlane https://qualla.com/drumlane Drumlane: Introduction https://qualla.com/drumlane/ Photo credit Egardiner0, CC BY-SA 3.0. Saint Columba is said to have brought Christianity to Drumlane in the year 555. A century later, Saint Mogue made the Connachta nobleman Faircheallaigh its first abbot, and the Faircheallaigh family — anglicised long afterwards as Farrelly — would supply the abbots of Drumlane for the next nine hundred years. There is a 12-metre round tower standing here still, beside the ruined nave of an Augustinian priory, in the middle of the drumlin country of west Cavan. Most visitors who find it have to be looking for it. The Vikings burned it in 836. Rival clans burned it again in 1246. Henry VIII confiscated it in 1539. It is still standing.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/e/drumlane-wp/gcde-drumlane-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Drumlane: The Field of Drumlins https://qualla.com/drumlane/ Photo credit Egardiner0, CC BY-SA 3.0. Drumlane takes its name from the landscape: a *drumlin* is a low rounded hill formed of glacial till, and Cavan is one of the most extensively drumlin-covered counties in Ireland — soft ribbed moraines laid down by the last ice age, scattered with lakes and oak woods. The townlan...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/e/drumlane-wp/gcde-drumlane-the-field-of-drumlins.mp3 0:06 2 full Drumlane: Between Two Breifnes https://qualla.com/drumlane/ Photo credit Egardiner0, CC BY-SA 3.0. Drumlane stood on the borderline between East Breifne (the O'Reillys' country) and West Breifne (the O'Rourkes' country), and the priory served as both spiritual centre and burial place for chiefs of both clans. This was not always a peaceful arrangement. In 1246 the church was b...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/e/drumlane-wp/gcde-drumlane-between-two-breifnes.mp3 0:06 3 full Drumlane: The Round Tower and the Carved Heads https://qualla.com/drumlane/ Photo credit Egardiner0, CC BY-SA 3.0. What stands today is the buttressed ruin of the priory church and its round tower. The tower is 11.6 metres tall and 15.8 metres around the base, the only surviving round tower in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Kilmore. The church itself measures 32.6 metres long by 6.1 metres ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/e/drumlane-wp/gcde-drumlane-the-round-tower-and-the-carved-heads.mp3 0:06 4 full Drumlane: Confiscated and Abandoned https://qualla.com/drumlane/ Photo credit Egardiner0, CC BY-SA 3.0. Drumlane's official medieval life ended in 1539 when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries. The priory was confiscated to the Archbishop of Dublin and later leased to the O'Reilly family for a nominal rent, which they declined to pay in full. By 1583 the estate had been forfeited ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/e/drumlane-wp/gcde-drumlane-confiscated-and-abandoned.mp3 0:06 5 full Drumlane: Names That Outlasted the Buildings https://qualla.com/drumlane/ Photo credit Egardiner0, CC BY-SA 3.0. What survives at Drumlane, alongside the round tower and the ruined nave, is one of the most complete records of religious continuity in Ireland — abbots, priors, and parish priests recorded by name back to the seventh century. Faircheallaigh, abbot in 624. Conchobhar, abbot in 9...

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