Qualla: Fallmore https://qualla.com/fallmore 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/fallmore-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Fallmore https://qualla.com/fallmore Fallmore: Introduction https://qualla.com/fallmore/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. Three hundred yards from the sea, on a low knoll above a sandy beach at the southern tip of the Mullet Peninsula, stands a small ruined church of polygonal masonry. It was built in the eleventh or twelfth century on the site of a much older religious settlement said to have been founded in the late sixth century by an anchoress named Dairbhile. Some of the foundation stones excavated here may date back to her lifetime. The church bears her name still - Saint Dairbhile's, or Teampall Deirbhile in Irish - and the townland of Fallmore that surrounds it has been Irish-speaking continuously for as long as anyone has been keeping records. Population at the 2011 census: 75 people, spread across 704 acres of dune, machair and bog.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/fallmore-wp/gc8g-fallmore-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fallmore: Saint Dairbhile https://qualla.com/fallmore/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. Dairbhile - sometimes spelled Darbiled or Deirbhile - is one of the more obscure of Ireland's early Christian saints, but on the Mullet Peninsula she is the central religious figure. Tradition holds that she lived as an anchoress here between roughly 575 and 600 AD, in a beehive ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/fallmore-wp/gc8g-fallmore-saint-dairbhile.mp3 0:06 2 full Fallmore: The Rundale System https://qualla.com/fallmore/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. Long before the modern field system arrived in Erris, the people of Fallmore farmed by a method called Rundale - a form of communal land tenure in which the better land was periodically redistributed among the families of the townland, ensuring that no one family was permanently ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/fallmore-wp/gc8g-fallmore-the-rundale-system.mp3 0:06 3 full Fallmore: The Palmer Clearances of 1857 https://qualla.com/fallmore/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1857, a Church of England clergyman named William Palmer purchased the townlands of Termon and Fallmore. The Famine of 1845-1852 had ended only a few years earlier, the population was already shattered, and Palmer set about 'improving' his new estate. This meant ending the Run...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/g/fallmore-wp/gc8g-fallmore-the-palmer-clearances-of-1857.mp3 0:06 4 full Fallmore: Where the Land Ends https://qualla.com/fallmore/ Photo credit James Emmans, CC BY-SA 2.0. Fallmore townland also includes the small village of Blacksod itself - the pier where ferries leave for the Inishkea Islands, the white square tower of Blacksod Lighthouse a kilometre away, the few houses clustered along the road. The geology underfoot is metamorphic schist with ...

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