Qualla: Kesh, County Fermanagh https://qualla.com/kesh-county-fermanagh 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: Kesh, County Fermanagh https://qualla.com/kesh-county-fermanagh Kesh, County Fermanagh: Introduction https://qualla.com/kesh-county-fermanagh/ The Irish word ceis means 'wicker bridge', and that is exactly what Kesh once was - a place where you could get across the Glendarragh River when you needed to, on woven branches lashed over a ford. The village grew around the crossing. Two thousand years ago the people on Rosscah Hill above what is now the rectory were building ringforts of earth and stone, and you can still find one in the trees. The lake came closer then - before the Erne Drainage of the 1880s, Lower Lough Erne sat about eight feet higher, and in floods it nearly licked the village. Kesh has always lived at the meeting of water and ground.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/w/kesh-county-fermanagh-wp/gcdw-kesh-county-fermanagh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kesh, County Fermanagh: Layers in the Hills https://qualla.com/kesh-county-fermanagh/ Walk the back roads out of Kesh and you find the ráths - Iron Age ringforts that look at first glance like nothing more than circular humps in a pasture. The one above what locals still call Joe Robert's house is the genuine article. Another, nearer the house, is decorative, buil...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/w/kesh-county-fermanagh-wp/gcdw-kesh-county-fermanagh-the-lake-edge.mp3 0:06 3 full Kesh, County Fermanagh: The Cold Morning of 1984 https://qualla.com/kesh-county-fermanagh/ On 2 December 1984, the country lanes around Kesh became the scene of one of the bloodiest SAS-IRA encounters of the Troubles. A four-man IRA active service unit had brought a van bomb across the border to lure an RUC patrol into an ambush at Drumrush Lodge Restaurant, a place th...

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