Qualla: Limavady https://qualla.com/limavady 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: Limavady https://qualla.com/limavady Limavady: Introduction https://qualla.com/limavady/ The dog leapt the river. That, according to local legend, is how the town got its name. An O'Cahan chief's hound jumped the River Roe to summon help from a neighbouring clan after a surprise attack on the family fortress. The dog's leap survived in Irish as Léim an Mhadaidh - leap of the dog - which anglicised over the centuries to Limavady. Today the town has 11,279 inhabitants and a backdrop of Binevenagh mountain rising sharply behind it. It has a famous birthplace (a New Zealand Prime Minister), a famously misheard tune (Danny Boy was written for it), and a famously unintended arrival - Richard Branson's transatlantic balloon came down here in 1987, ending up in a Limavady field instead of anywhere it had planned to be.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/1/limavady-wp/gcg1-limavady-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Limavady: The Tune in the Air https://qualla.com/limavady/ In the mid-1800s, a woman named Jane Ross sat at her window on Main Street in Limavady and listened. A blind itinerant fiddler named Jimmy McCurry was playing in the street below - he made his living that way, and his tunes were the old tunes, passed down from fiddler to fiddler....

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/1/limavady-wp/gcg1-limavady-the-tune-in-the-air.mp3 0:06 2 full Limavady: The Prime Minister Who Left https://qualla.com/limavady/ William Ferguson Massey was born on Irish Green Street in Limavady in 1856. His family emigrated to New Zealand when he was a teenager. Massey became a farmer in Auckland, then a politician, then leader of the Reform Party, then - from 1912 to 1925 - the 19th Prime Minister of Ne...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/1/limavady-wp/gcg1-limavady-the-prime-minister-who-left.mp3 0:06 3 full Limavady: The Broighter Gold https://qualla.com/limavady/ In 1896, a ploughman working a field near Limavady turned up a hoard of Iron Age gold. The Broighter Gold collection - named for the townland where it was found - included an exquisitely worked gold torc, a model boat the size of a child's palm complete with tiny gold oars, a gol...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/1/limavady-wp/gcg1-limavady-the-broighter-gold.mp3 0:06 4 full Limavady: The Balloon https://qualla.com/limavady/ On 3 July 1987, Richard Branson and the Swedish engineer Per Lindstrand became the first humans to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a hot air balloon. They launched from Sugarloaf, Maine, intending to land somewhere in the British Isles. They came down somewhere in the British Isles. ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/1/limavady-wp/gcg1-limavady-the-balloon.mp3 0:06 5 full Limavady: The Roe Valley https://qualla.com/limavady/ Beneath the town flows the River Roe, which once powered linen mills and tanneries and which now flows through the Roe Valley Country Park - a wooded gorge with restored mill buildings, riverside walks, and the old generating station that gave Limavady some of the earliest electr...

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