Qualla: Drumshanbo https://qualla.com/drumshanbo 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/7/drumshanbo-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Drumshanbo https://qualla.com/drumshanbo Drumshanbo: Introduction https://qualla.com/drumshanbo/ Photo credit Pampuco, CC BY-SA 4.0. Drumshanbo sits at the lower tip of Lough Allen, the third-biggest lake on the River Shannon, and it sits in the shadow of an actual mountain called Sliabh an Iarainn - the Iron Mountain. The town of 1,240 people is centred on a small crossroads where two regional roads meet. It has three churches, an enclosed Poor Clare convent where nuns have maintained perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament since 1860, and the only place in Ireland where the An Tostal festival, established by the Irish Tourist Board in the 1950s to bring emigrants home, has survived into the twenty-first century. It also has the Joe Mooney Summer School - a week in late July when Irish music enthusiasts from across the world descend on the pubs and the parish hall - and, since 2014, one of the most successful new craft distilleries in Ireland.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/7/drumshanbo-wp/gcd7-drumshanbo-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Drumshanbo: The Iron Mountain https://qualla.com/drumshanbo/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. Sliabh an Iarainn rises 585 metres east of the town, and its name - the Iron Mountain - is literal. The slopes hold rich iron ore that has been worked here for over three hundred years. The whole reason a town exists at Drumshanbo is the iron industry that grew up around it in th...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/7/drumshanbo-wp/gcd7-drumshanbo-the-iron-mountain.mp3 0:06 2 full Drumshanbo: Famine and Fairs https://qualla.com/drumshanbo/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. Drumshanbo had a famine graveyard. Some five hundred victims of the Great Famine are buried at the famine-period burial ground outside the town. The original Catholic church here had stood on a site nearby since 1744; the present St Patrick's Church on the main street was built i...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/7/drumshanbo-wp/gcd7-drumshanbo-famine-and-fairs.mp3 0:06 3 full Drumshanbo: Joe Mooney, An Tostal, and the Music https://qualla.com/drumshanbo/ Photo credit User: (WT-shared) The.Q at wts wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 2.5. Drumshanbo has been quietly punching above its weight on the cultural circuit for decades. The Joe Mooney Summer School, founded in memory of the local county councillor and traditional-music enthusiast Joseph Mooney, has run every July since the 1980s and now attracts Irish musi...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/7/drumshanbo-wp/gcd7-drumshanbo-joe-mooney-an-tostal-and-the-music.mp3 0:06 4 full Drumshanbo: The Shed https://qualla.com/drumshanbo/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. The story that has most changed Drumshanbo in the present century is The Shed Distillery, opened in 2014 on the site of the old factory premises in the centre of town. It was the first new distillery in Connacht in over a hundred and one years, and it has become best known for Dr...

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