Qualla: Gortin https://qualla.com/gortin 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: Gortin https://qualla.com/gortin Gortin: Introduction https://qualla.com/gortin/ The story goes that an excise officer from Omagh paid a visit to the Gortin brewery one day in the late nineteenth century. He went in to inspect the operation. He was never seen again. The brewery has been closed for over a century, and whether the tale is true or invented to scare future tax collectors, it captures something essential about this village under the Sperrin Mountains - that its history is a long quiet argument between authority and the people who lived a day's horse-ride away from it.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/z/gortin-wp/gcdz-gortin-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Gortin: The Landlord's Estate https://qualla.com/gortin/ In the 1840s, Gortin had 410 inhabitants living in 81 indifferently-built houses arranged along one irregular street. A visitor of the period found the surrounding scenery bold but generally destitute of beauty, lacking trees - except at Beltrim, the residence of the Hamilton fam...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/z/gortin-wp/gcdz-gortin-the-landlords-estate.mp3 0:06 2 full Gortin: The Workhouse https://qualla.com/gortin/ The workhouse opened in 1841, two years before the famine, at a cost of 2,689 pounds, with another 200 pounds for the site. It was built to hold 200 paupers - a main building 200 yards long and three stories high, plus a general hospital and a fever hospital. When the famine came...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/z/gortin-wp/gcdz-gortin-the-workhouse.mp3 0:06 3 full Gortin: Trades That Vanished https://qualla.com/gortin/ Once there was a tannery here. The oak bark was soaked in stone pits whose outlines can still be traced in a village yard, and the leather went to local cobblers and harness-makers. There were two bakeries - one owner used to hitch two horses to two carts and drive to Dublin for ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/z/gortin-wp/gcdz-gortin-trades-that-vanished.mp3 0:06 4 full Gortin: The Glen and the Mountains https://qualla.com/gortin/ Gortin sits in the valley of the Owenkillew, 10 miles north of Omagh, with the Sperrins rising on either side. The Sperrins are gentle mountains, more rolling than dramatic, made of ancient Dalradian quartzite and schist, their high points covered in blanket bog and rough grass. ...

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