Qualla: Inishowen https://qualla.com/inishowen en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Inishowen https://qualla.com/inishowen Inishowen: Introduction https://qualla.com/inishowen/ Eoghan mac Neill was the son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the High King of Ireland whose name carried into the medieval period as the founder of the great Ui Neill dynasties. His name attaches to the peninsula that bears it: Inis Eoghain, the Island of Eoghan. The Romans, or rather Ptolemy of Alexandria writing in the second century AD, called the point Wenniknion, perhaps from a Celtic word meaning friends. The peninsula is no longer an island in the strict sense, though it was, after the last ice age. It is now joined to the rest of Donegal at its southern end, bordered by the Atlantic, Lough Foyle, and Lough Swilly. At its tip is Malin Head, the northernmost point of the Irish mainland.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/f/inishowen-wp/gcff-inishowen-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Inishowen: The Grianan of Aileach https://qualla.com/inishowen/ Standing on top of a hill at the southern entrance to Inishowen, the Grianan of Aileach is a stone ringfort that was once the royal seat of the over-kingdom of Ailech. It was the seat of high kings, including the Meic Lochlainn, who held power here for centuries. A Limerick king ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/f/inishowen-wp/gcff-inishowen-the-grianan-of-aileach.mp3 0:06 2 full Inishowen: Castles of the O'Dohertys https://qualla.com/inishowen/ The Norman Earldom of Ulster expanded into Inishowen in the thirteenth century, founding Greencastle on the Foyle. After the Bruce invasion in the early fourteenth century, the O Dochartaigh (O'Doherty) clan gradually conquered Inishowen as they lost their original homeland in th...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/f/inishowen-wp/gcff-inishowen-castles-of-the-odohertys.mp3 0:06 3 full Inishowen: Ireland's Most Northerly Point https://qualla.com/inishowen/ Malin Head, on the small peninsula at the top of Inishowen, is the northernmost point of the Irish mainland. Dunalderagh, its sharp tip, lies several kilometres further north than anywhere in Northern Ireland (those extremes being Benbane Head near Giant's Causeway and Rathlin Is...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/f/inishowen-wp/gcff-inishowen-irelands-most-northerly-point.mp3 0:06 4 full Inishowen: The Disaster of July 2010 https://qualla.com/inishowen/ On the evening of 11 July 2010, seven young local men and an older pensioner died in a road accident on the R238 just outside Clonmany. The youngest victims were teenagers. The crash, which involved a single vehicle, received national and international media coverage. It became I...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/f/inishowen-wp/gcff-inishowen-the-disaster-of-july-2010.mp3 0:06 5 full Inishowen: The Inishowen 100 and the Wild Atlantic Way https://qualla.com/inishowen/ The Inishowen 100 is a signposted scenic drive of approximately one hundred miles around the peninsula's coast. It begins at Bridgend, runs north along Lough Swilly through Inch Island, Fahan, Buncrana, and Fort Dunree, turns inland to Mamore Gap, then back to the coast at Tullag...

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