Qualla: Dugort https://qualla.com/dugort 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/8/g/dugort-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Dugort https://qualla.com/dugort Dugort: Introduction https://qualla.com/dugort/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the early 1830s, a Church of Ireland clergyman named Edward Nangle arrived on Achill Island with a plan. He had been granted 130 acres of land at the foot of Slievemore mountain by Sir Richard O'Donnell, and he intended to build a planned community there - a Protestant mission settlement that would, he hoped, convert the Catholic population of Achill to the Reformed faith. The land, Nangle later wrote, was 'a swamp so soft a hare could not walk over it.' By 1840 a square of stone houses had risen on the slopes above Dugort, accompanied by a printing press, schools, an orphanage, a grain mill, and a woolen factory. Then, in 1845, the potato crop failed.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/dugort-wp/gc8g-dugort-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dugort: The Mission Colony https://qualla.com/dugort/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Achill Mission - 'the Colony,' as it was known locally - was part of a wider evangelical movement to convert Catholics in the west of Ireland to Protestantism. It was controversial from the beginning. Nangle's neighbours included Catholic priests who regarded him as a soul-st...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/dugort-wp/gc8g-dugort-the-mission-colony.mp3 0:06 2 full Dugort: Famine and the Bargain Nobody Wanted https://qualla.com/dugort/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. By December 1846, the Achill Mission was reporting that it had given employment to over 4,400 labourers during that month - more than half of them Roman Catholic. Nangle later clarified that these were aggregate figures, not daily averages; on most days the actual employment was ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/dugort-wp/gc8g-dugort-famine-and-the-bargain-nobody-wanted.mp3 0:06 3 full Dugort: The Statistics That Survive https://qualla.com/dugort/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Mission's careful record-keeping has left behind one of the most detailed pictures we have of life in a Famine-era Irish community. Between 1841 and 1851, the number of inhabited houses in Dugort actually increased by 16, while uninhabited houses dropped by 3 - suggesting mig...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/dugort-wp/gc8g-dugort-the-statistics-that-survive.mp3 0:06 4 full Dugort: Two Beaches and a Mountain https://qualla.com/dugort/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. Today Dugort is a quiet village known mostly for its scenery. It has two Blue Flag beaches - Silver Strand at the foot of Slievemore, and the Golden Strand further east - both of them sweeping pale arcs of sand against the dark mass of the mountain. Slievemore itself rises direct...

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