Qualla: Dungiven https://qualla.com/dungiven en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Dungiven https://qualla.com/dungiven Dungiven: Introduction https://qualla.com/dungiven/ Three rivers meet here. The Roe, the Owenreagh, and the Owenbeg converge at the foot of Benbradagh - a 1,525-foot peak in the Sperrin Mountains - and the town of Dungiven grew up around the confluence. The Augustinian priory at the edge of town has been ruined since the seventeenth century. Inside the ruins lies a tomb carved in 1385 for Cooey na Gall O'Cahan, chief of the most powerful clan in this corner of Ulster. Outside the priory stands a thicket of thorn bushes hung with rags - a bullaun stone, where local people still leave cloth offerings in hopes of curing warts. The town has about 3,346 people and votes Sinn Féin. The road from Belfast to Derry used to run straight through its main street, but a long-promised bypass finally opened in 2022 and the cars now thunder past somewhere to the south.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/0/dungiven-wp/gcg0-dungiven-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dungiven: The Leap of the Dog https://qualla.com/dungiven/ Limavady, just down the road, takes its name from the leap of a dog (Léim an Mhadaidh). Dungiven's name has a different etymology - probably from dún geimhin, the fortified place of the hides - and a different mythology rooted in the clan that ruled here for five centuries. Betwe...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/0/dungiven-wp/gcg0-dungiven-the-leap-of-the-dog.mp3 0:06 2 full Dungiven: The Priory and the Bullauns https://qualla.com/dungiven/ The Augustinian priory was built in the 1100s on the foundations of older churches - St Nechtan may have founded the first around 679 AD, and tradition gives the second to St Patrick himself in the fifth century. Outside the ruins, beside the thorn thicket hung with cloth, sits a...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/0/dungiven-wp/gcg0-dungiven-the-priory-and-the-bullauns.mp3 0:06 3 full Dungiven: The Sperrin Backdrop https://qualla.com/dungiven/ Benbradagh rises above Dungiven to the north-east - 1,525 feet of heather-clad upland that has acted as the town's natural backdrop since the first hunter-gatherers walked these valleys. The Glenshane Pass winds through the Sperrin Mountains nearby, climbing to over a thousand fe...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/0/dungiven-wp/gcg0-dungiven-the-sperrin-backdrop.mp3 0:06 4 full Dungiven: Music and Loss https://qualla.com/dungiven/ Dungiven has produced more singers than most towns its size. Cara Dillon, the folk singer with the silver voice and international following, was born here in 1975. Her cousin Mary Dillon, another folk singer of distinction, is also from the town. Eoghan Quigg, who reached the X F...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/0/dungiven-wp/gcg0-dungiven-music-and-loss.mp3 0:06 5 full Dungiven: Through the Troubles https://qualla.com/dungiven/ During the Troubles, seven people lost their lives in or near Dungiven in connection with the conflict. Six were members of the security forces. The one civilian was Francis McCloskey, found beaten to death in disputed circumstances during street disturbances in July 1969. The po...

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