Qualla: Killala https://qualla.com/killala 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/k/killala-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Killala https://qualla.com/killala Killala: Introduction https://qualla.com/killala/ Photo credit Seansweeney1 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 22 August 1798, three French frigates dropped anchor in Kilcummin harbour, just outside Killala, and put eleven hundred and nine soldiers ashore on Kilcummin Strand. They came under the command of General Jean Joseph Amable Humbert. They had crossed from La Rochelle with one purpose: to support the Irish Rebellion that had begun in May and was already, by August, mostly lost. The local people were astonished. Within hours, the small village was in French hands, and the tricolour replaced the Union Jack over Killala. Humbert and his Irish allies would hold the town for thirty-two days. What happened in those weeks would be the last great convulsion of the 1798 Rebellion - and the last time a foreign army landed on Irish soil.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/k/killala-wp/gc9k-killala-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Killala: The Year of the French https://qualla.com/killala/ Photo credit Munifico, CC BY-SA 3.0. From Killala, Humbert advanced quickly. Ballina fell with little resistance. On 27 August, at Castlebar, Humbert's small force of French regulars and untrained Irish recruits faced a much larger British army under General Gerard Lake. What followed was so swift a rout that the Br...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/k/killala-wp/gc9k-killala-the-year-of-the-french.mp3 0:06 2 full Killala: The Round Tower https://qualla.com/killala/ Photo credit Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0. In the centre of Killala stands a round tower twenty-five metres tall, the last surviving fragment of a medieval monastery thought to have been built in the twelfth century. The tower is made of limestone. Round towers like this one are particular to Ireland - tall, slender, coni...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/k/killala-wp/gc9k-killala-the-round-tower.mp3 0:06 3 full Killala: The Well of Twelve Thousand https://qualla.com/killala/ Photo credit Ingrid, CC BY-SA 2.0. Local tradition holds that Patrick baptised twelve thousand converts at a well near Killala on a single day. The well still flows. Whether or not the number is literal, the story carries the symbolic weight of Patrick's mission and the speed with which Christianity took hold alon...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/k/killala-wp/gc9k-killala-the-well-of-twelve-thousand.mp3 0:06 4 full Killala: The Railway That Failed https://qualla.com/killala/ Photo credit RoryFC, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 2 January 1893, after two years of construction at a cost of £29,000, a branch railway opened between Ballina and Killala. The line ran six miles, with five gatehouses, one tunnel, and four bridges. At Killala station there was a turntable, two sidings, a signal cabin, and a s...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/k/killala-wp/gc9k-killala-the-railway-that-failed.mp3 0:06 5 full Killala: The Year of the French, Again https://qualla.com/killala/ Photo credit Munifico, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1981, RTE produced a television series called The Year of the French, based on Thomas Flanagan's novel of the same name. Killala was a primary filming location - the village standing in for itself. In 1989, the sculptor Carmel Gallagher unveiled a bust of General Humbert in th...

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