Qualla: Easky https://qualla.com/easky 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: Easky https://qualla.com/easky Easky: Introduction https://qualla.com/easky/ There are two reef breaks at Easky, one off Easky Point and another off the village itself. Both are world-class - long, peeling lefts that pick up almost any Atlantic swell and turn it into a wave surfers travel thousands of miles to ride. In 1979 the Pro-Am Surfing World Championships came to this village in northwest Sligo. In 2003, Easky hosted the World Surf Kayaking Championships. The Irish Surfing Association set up its headquarters here in 1995. The Atlantic does not care about reputation. It produces these waves whether anyone is watching or not. But people watch, and they come, and a village whose name is the Irish word for fishing has reinvented itself around the same coast it was first named for.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/s/easky-wp/gc9s-easky-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Easky: The Land of the White-Blossomed Apple Trees https://qualla.com/easky/ Easky takes its name from the Irish iasc, fish, and Iascaigh - abounding in fish - after the Easky River that runs through the village. The parish was originally called Imleach Iseal, low land verging on the water, after the marshy ground around the river mouth. In the old geneal...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/s/easky-wp/gc9s-easky-the-land-of-the-white-blossomed-apple-trees.mp3 0:06 2 full Easky: O'Dowd Castle https://qualla.com/easky/ Beside the pier stands O'Dowd Castle, built in 1207. It was originally raised for Oliver McDonnell, who had come to Easky to marry an O'Dowd widow - a Norman-Gaelic alliance of the kind that knitted together the political map of medieval Ireland. The castle later passed to the O'...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/s/easky-wp/gc9s-easky-odowd-castle.mp3 0:06 3 full Easky: Easky Bridge https://qualla.com/easky/ Built in 1847 during the worst years of the Great Famine, Easky Bridge connects the main village to the Sligo side of the river. Its construction was almost certainly funded as relief works - the same scheme that built so many roads, bridges, and harbour walls across western Irel...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/s/easky-wp/gc9s-easky-easky-bridge.mp3 0:06 4 full Easky: Reeling in the Years https://qualla.com/easky/ Easkey GAA, the local Gaelic football club, was founded in 1888, just four years after the foundation of the GAA itself. The club played in the first Sligo Senior Football Championship that same year, taking on St John's at Collooney on 11 March 1888. They have won five Sligo Sen...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/s/easky-wp/gc9s-easky-reeling-in-the-years.mp3 0:06 5 full Easky: Calvary https://qualla.com/easky/ The mother of playwrights Martin McDonagh and John Michael McDonagh - whose films include In Bruges, The Guard, and Three Billboards - comes from Easky. In 2014 John Michael McDonagh shot his film Calvary in the village and the surrounding coastline. The film stars Brendan Gleeso...

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