Qualla: Kilbrittain https://qualla.com/kilbrittain 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/v/kilbrittain-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Kilbrittain https://qualla.com/kilbrittain Kilbrittain: Introduction https://qualla.com/kilbrittain/ Photo credit Joanbanjo, CC BY-SA 3.0. The skeleton in the park is the first thing people remember about Kilbrittain. It is 18 metres long - the bones of a fin whale that stranded on a beach in Courtmacsherry Bay on 15 January 2009 and could not be saved. The Courtmacsherry lifeboat tried, but the animal was too heavy, the tide unhelpful, and the second-largest creature ever to live died on the sand a few miles from where its skeleton is now displayed. Channel 4 sent a documentary crew. Local songwriter Michael O'Brien wrote a humorous song about whether the whale belonged to Kilbrittain or Courtmacsherry. The bones - rearticulated and weather-worn now - stand on a small green just east of the village, a sudden monumental scale in a place that otherwise hides its grandeur.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/kilbrittain-wp/gc1v-kilbrittain-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kilbrittain: A Castle Old as the Battle of Hastings https://qualla.com/kilbrittain/ Photo credit Carogonmu, CC BY-SA 4.0. Kilbrittain Castle is thought to date from 1035. If true, the original fortress predates the Norman invasion of Ireland by more than a century - older even than the Battle of Hastings - and was likely built by the O'Mahony clan. Norman de Courcey took it, the MacCarthy Reagh fami...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/kilbrittain-wp/gc1v-kilbrittain-a-castle-old-as-the-battle-of-hastings.mp3 0:06 2 full Kilbrittain: Marco Polo in Irish https://qualla.com/kilbrittain/ Photo credit Ludovic Péron,Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0. Kilbrittain's most extraordinary export is a book. The Book of Lismore, also called Leabhar Mhic Cárthaigh Riabhaigh, was compiled in the 15th century - it is believed - to commemorate the marriage of the Gaelic prince Finghin Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach of Kilbrittain Castle to Caiti...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/kilbrittain-wp/gc1v-kilbrittain-marco-polo-in-irish.mp3 0:06 3 full Kilbrittain: Disney and the Disney Photographer https://qualla.com/kilbrittain/ Photo credit Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0. Coolmain Castle gathered an unlikely 20th-century cast. Donn Byrne, the Irish-American novelist born in New York and raised in Armagh, lived there in the early 1900s and is buried in Rathclarin churchyard - he died young in a 1928 car crash. Roy E. Disney - nephew of Walt Disney,...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/kilbrittain-wp/gc1v-kilbrittain-disney-and-the-disney-photographer.mp3 0:06 4 full Kilbrittain: Tofu and Tractors https://qualla.com/kilbrittain/ Photo credit User Thesteve on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Modern Kilbrittain is a working West Cork village with two primary schools, a parish church, a GAA club founded in 1904, and one of the first producers of Irish-made tofu - a quirk that earns it the occasional national-paper headline. Each summer, Burren House overlooking Courtma...

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