Qualla: Grange https://qualla.com/grange-county-sligo 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/9/v/grange-county-sligo-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Grange https://qualla.com/grange-county-sligo Grange: Introduction https://qualla.com/grange-county-sligo/ Photo credit Brian Herrity, CC BY-SA 3.0. On a September night in 1588, three Spanish galleons broke up on the sand at Streedagh strand. La Lavia, La Juliana, and the Santa Maria de Vision had been driven north around Ireland by the same storms that had already shattered the Armada. Survivors crawled ashore into a country where English garrisons paid bounties for Spaniards. One of them, Captain Francisco de Cuellar, would survive somehow and write it all down. Four centuries later, in 1985, marine archaeologists found the wrecks where the captain said they had gone down, just off the sandy beach at the edge of a small Sligo village called Grange.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/grange-county-sligo-wp/gc9v-grange-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Grange: Between Benbulben and the Sea https://qualla.com/grange-county-sligo/ Photo credit Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0. Grange sits on the N15 between the limestone wall of Benbulben mountain and the long curve of the Atlantic. The old village is on the hill to the north of the present one. The land originally belonged to the Cistercian monastery of Boyle, off in County Roscommon, and through the ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/grange-county-sligo-wp/gc9v-grange-between-benbulben-and-the-sea.mp3 0:06 2 full Grange: Cuellar's Story https://qualla.com/grange-county-sligo/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. When La Lavia went down, Francisco de Cuellar clung to a hatch cover and washed ashore. Around him, hundreds of his shipmates drowned in the surf or were killed by locals stripping the dead for clothes and metal. The English garrison in North Sligo was hunting Spaniards. Cuellar ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/grange-county-sligo-wp/gc9v-grange-cuellars-story.mp3 0:06 3 full Grange: Eliza Becomes Lola https://qualla.com/grange-county-sligo/ Photo credit David Claypoole Johnston, Public domain. Eliza Rosanna Gilbert was born in Grange in 1821. By her mid-twenties she had reinvented herself as Lola Montez, an exotic Spanish dancer, and was performing across Europe with a backstory that contained almost no truth. In 1846 she met King Ludwig I of Bavaria. He was sixty, mar...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/grange-county-sligo-wp/gc9v-grange-eliza-becomes-lola.mp3 0:06 4 full Grange: The Strand Today https://qualla.com/grange-county-sligo/ Photo credit Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0. Streedagh strand is now a Special Area of Conservation, a long sweep of sand with dunes behind it and a salt water lagoon. A monument near the beach commemorates the Armada wrecks. In 2018, a Spanish Armada interpretive centre opened in Grange's old courthouse. The strand is also...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/grange-county-sligo-wp/gc9v-grange-the-strand-today.mp3 0:06 5 full Grange: Modern Quirks https://qualla.com/grange-county-sligo/ Photo credit Geofreund1, CC BY-SA 4.0. In January 2012, early-twentieth-century Mills type 36 grenades were discovered at a private home in Grange. In August of the same year, the village made national news when a herd of 105 sheep was stolen. In 2019, a sperm whale washed up on the shore. The Church of Mary Immaculat...

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