Qualla: Glandore https://qualla.com/glandore 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/1/t/glandore-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Glandore https://qualla.com/glandore Glandore: Introduction https://qualla.com/glandore/ Photo credit Glandore, Public domain. Sailors entering Glandore Harbour learn one rule before they learn anyone's name: avoid Adam, hug Eve. The two small islands at the harbour mouth are called precisely that - Adam to the west, Eve to the east. Adam is surrounded by foul ground, half-submerged rocks that will tear out the bottom of an inattentive boat. Eve is clean. Pass close to Eve and you are safe. Generations of fishermen, racers, and weekend cruisers have repeated the rule until it became part of the village. The name Glandore itself comes from Cuan Dor - the harbour of the oak trees. The oaks are mostly gone. The harbour and its rules remain.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/t/glandore-wp/gc1t-glandore-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Glandore: Adam, Eve, and the Perches https://qualla.com/glandore/ Photo credit HighKing, CC BY-SA 3.0. Glandore Harbour stretches roughly three miles north to south, narrow enough that hills enclose both sides. At the north end is the village of Leap. On the west side is Union Hall, a fishing port whose name commemorates the 1801 Act of Union with Britain - a fact the village has ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/t/glandore-wp/gc1t-glandore-adam-eve-and-the-perches.mp3 0:06 2 full Glandore: From Normans to O'Donovans https://qualla.com/glandore/ Photo credit User: (WT-shared) Spircle at wts wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Glandore was one of the earliest settlements in this stretch of coast. In 1215, the Normans built two castles at the harbour - presumably to control its trade and military value. Within decades, the O'Donovan family had taken control of the harbour from the Normans and occupied t...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/t/glandore-wp/gc1t-glandore-from-normans-to-odonovans.mp3 0:06 3 full Glandore: The Regatta https://qualla.com/glandore/ Photo credit Alan Simkins, CC BY-SA 2.0. On the third weekend of August, the Glandore Regatta has been held for so long that nobody alive remembers when it started. The harbour fills with Dragon class keelboats - the elegant, narrow international racing class that has been raced at the Olympics - along with Squibs and T...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/t/glandore-wp/gc1t-glandore-the-regatta.mp3 0:06 4 full Glandore: Wildlife on the Wing https://qualla.com/glandore/ Photo credit E.G. Irving, Public domain. The harbour and bay between Galley Head and Toe Head support a striking range of species for a place so close to a working village. Grey herons stalk the mudflats at low tide. Oystercatchers, gannets, shags, cormorants, herring gulls, and black-tipped gulls work the water. Seals ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/t/glandore-wp/gc1t-glandore-wildlife-on-the-wing.mp3 0:06 5 full Glandore: The Quiet Famous https://qualla.com/glandore/ Photo credit Donald MacDonald, CC BY-SA 2.0. Glandore is one of those Irish villages with a curiously high concentration of quietly famous part-time residents. Margaret Jay - Baroness Jay of Paddington, former Leader of the House of Lords - has kept a house called Elm Bank here for decades. The Irish businessman Tony O'Reil...

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