Qualla: Kilmovee https://qualla.com/kilmovee 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/f/kilmovee-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Kilmovee https://qualla.com/kilmovee Kilmovee: Introduction https://qualla.com/kilmovee/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. There are three wells on a quiet patch of ground in Kilmovee, and beside them stands a damaged ogham stone bearing letters worn nearly past reading. Local tradition holds that the wells sprang from the earth when Saint Mobhi struck the soil with his staff, finding no water to baptise the people who had gathered to him. The stone itself is older still. Its scratched edges spell out fragments of an Irish name in a script that predates Christianity. Both relics now share the same small clearing, the pagan beside the Christian, in a parish that has spent fifteen hundred years layering one story on top of another.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/f/kilmovee-wp/gc9f-kilmovee-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kilmovee: Mobhi the Teacher https://qualla.com/kilmovee/ Photo credit Duncan Grant, CC BY-SA 2.0. Kilmovee takes its name from Cill Mobhi, the Church of Mobhi, after a sixth-century cleric known as Mobhi the Teacher. His name is a pet form of Berchan, and he is believed to have died in 544 during a pestilence that swept Ireland and scattered his disciples. One of those discip...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/f/kilmovee-wp/gc9f-kilmovee-mobhi-the-teacher.mp3 0:06 2 full Kilmovee: The Kingdom of Sliabh Lugha https://qualla.com/kilmovee/ Photo credit Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0. Before the Normans arrived, this corner of Mayo belonged to the Kingdom of Sliabh Lugha, ruled by the O'Gadhra Dynasty. Sliabh Lugha was a subdivision of the larger Gailenga kingdom, the name surviving today in the modern barony of Gallen. Then came the Nangles - the de Angelo fa...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/f/kilmovee-wp/gc9f-kilmovee-the-kingdom-of-sliabh-lugha.mp3 0:06 3 full Kilmovee: The Sraheens Barracks https://qualla.com/kilmovee/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. Three Royal Irish Constabulary barracks once stood in the parish - at Kilkelly, Rathnagussaun, and Sraheens. The Sraheens building is still there, derelict but standing, a low grey shell that has outlived the empire it was built to police. In June 1921, during the War of Independ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/f/kilmovee-wp/gc9f-kilmovee-the-sraheens-barracks.mp3 0:06 4 full Kilmovee: Ceoltoiri Mobhi https://qualla.com/kilmovee/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1975, a teacher named Seosamh Mac Gabhann founded a senior ceili band in the village and named it Ceoltoiri Mobhi, after the long-dead saint. The band found audiences beyond the parish, and two of their tunes entered the trad repertoire as The Kilmovee Jigs. Two years later, i...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/f/kilmovee-wp/gc9f-kilmovee-ceoltoiri-mobhi.mp3 0:06 5 full Kilmovee: The Flattest Ten in Ireland https://qualla.com/kilmovee/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. Since April 2010, Kilmovee has hosted an annual charity ten-kilometre run that draws competitors from across the country. Its reputation rests on a single boast: locals call it the flattest ten in Ireland. In a country of hills and weather, that is a serious claim and a serious d...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/f/kilmovee-wp/gc9f-kilmovee-the-flattest-ten-in-ireland.mp3 0:06 6 full