Qualla: Duvillaun https://qualla.com/duvillaun en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Duvillaun https://qualla.com/duvillaun Duvillaun: Introduction https://qualla.com/duvillaun/ On a clear day from the southern tip of the Mullet Peninsula, you can see them: a small cluster of low, dark islands a kilometre or two offshore. The Irish call them Dubhoileán - the Black Islands - and in English they have become Duvillaun. The main island, Duvillaun More (Big Black Island), has 180 acres of grassland. Its smaller siblings - Duvillaun Beg, Turduvillaun, Shiraghy, Keely, Gaghta, Leamareha - are mostly bog and rock. People once lived here. The last families left at the end of the nineteenth century. What remains is a bird sanctuary, a few crumbling cottages, and a stone slab six feet tall with a crucifixion carved into its western face by hands that put it there sometime between the sixth and eighth centuries AD.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/duvillaun-wp/gc8g-duvillaun-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Duvillaun: Quartzite Among Schist https://qualla.com/duvillaun/ Geologically, the Duvillaun islands do not belong to the Mullet. The Mullet Peninsula is built largely of schist, slate, gneiss, and white psammite, with a granite outcrop at Termon Hill. The Duvillauns are quartzite - the same hard, white, ancient rock that forms the spine of Ac...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/duvillaun-wp/gc8g-duvillaun-quartzite-among-schist.mp3 0:06 2 full Duvillaun: Where the Birds Now Rule https://qualla.com/duvillaun/ Since the last human residents departed, the Duvillauns have become one of the more important seabird colonies on this stretch of coast. Fulmars and kittiwakes nest on the cliffs in white-streaked rows. Peregrine falcons hover above them, watching for any chick or smaller bird th...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/duvillaun-wp/gc8g-duvillaun-where-the-birds-now-rule.mp3 0:06 3 full Duvillaun: Uaimh na Naoimh - The Saint's Tomb https://qualla.com/duvillaun/ Walk inland from the eastern shore of Duvillaun More and you come to one of the most remarkable Early Christian sites on the entire western seaboard. There are monastic remains here dating from the sixth to eighth centuries AD - the same period as similar sites on Inishkea South ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/duvillaun-wp/gc8g-duvillaun-uaimh-na-naoimh-the-saints-tomb.mp3 0:06 4 full Duvillaun: Visiting What Remains https://qualla.com/duvillaun/ There is no scheduled passenger service to the Duvillauns. In summer, boat trips leave from Blacksod Pier on the Mullet Peninsula and from Aughleam, taking visitors out to the various offshore islands depending on weather and tide. The crossing to Duvillaun More from Falmore at t...

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