Qualla: Ferriter's Cove https://qualla.com/ferriter-s-cove en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/ferriter-s-cove-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ferriter's Cove https://qualla.com/ferriter-s-cove Ferriter's Cove: Introduction https://qualla.com/ferriter-s-cove/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Two human teeth came out of the shell midden at Ferriter's Cove. They date to between 4,250 and 3,950 BC, putting them among the oldest human remains found in Ireland. The people who lost those teeth were not farmers. They were Mesolithic foragers - the last wave of hunter-gatherers in western Europe - and they sat at the edge of the Atlantic chipping flint and eating limpets while the world was still arranging itself into something we would recognize. Six thousand years later, a Norman knight named le Fereter arrived from Dublin and put his name on the place. The cove kept both stories. It is still keeping them.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/ferriter-s-cove-wp/gc28-ferriters-cove-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ferriter's Cove: The Last Foragers in Ireland https://qualla.com/ferriter-s-cove/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1983, an amateur archaeologist walking the shore at Ferriter's Cove picked up a flint knife. He thought it might be Neolithic. The find drew the attention of Peter C. Woodman, professor of archaeology at University College Cork and the foremost authority on prehistoric Ireland...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/ferriter-s-cove-wp/gc28-ferriters-cove-the-last-foragers-in-ireland.mp3 0:06 2 full Ferriter's Cove: Walter le Fereter, Norman https://qualla.com/ferriter-s-cove/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Skip forward six millennia. In 1252, the name of one Walter le Fereter shows up twice on a plea roll - a court record from the Norman administration of Ireland. Le Fereter is Norman French for 'the ironworker' or possibly 'the farrier,' and Walter was probably one of the wave of ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/ferriter-s-cove-wp/gc28-ferriters-cove-walter-le-fereter-norman.mp3 0:06 3 full Ferriter's Cove: Rocks That Predate Life https://qualla.com/ferriter-s-cove/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Walk the headlands of Ferriter's Cove and you are walking on rocks half a billion years old. The cliffs at the northern end are Devonian, between 419 and 359 million years old, beginning with the coarse conglomerate of the Pointagare group and grading into sandstones of the Bally...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/ferriter-s-cove-wp/gc28-ferriters-cove-rocks-that-predate-life.mp3 0:06 4 full Ferriter's Cove: Atlantic Weather https://qualla.com/ferriter-s-cove/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The cove sits at the westernmost point of the Dingle Peninsula, which means it sits at the westernmost point of the European mainland's reach - the next land due west is Newfoundland. The weather reflects this. Mean temperatures recorded at nearby Baile 'n Fheirtéaraigh hover aro...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/ferriter-s-cove-wp/gc28-ferriters-cove-atlantic-weather.mp3 0:06 5 full Ferriter's Cove: The Smell of the Midden https://qualla.com/ferriter-s-cove/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. What the archaeologists found at Ferriter's Cove is mostly garbage. That is the nature of a Mesolithic shell midden - a heap of accumulated kitchen waste, slowly turning into rich dark soil over millennia. Among the limpets and oysters and periwinkles were bits of charcoal from o...

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