Qualla: Loughglinn

Loughglinn: Introduction

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

In the dead house you are lying, and I'd wake you if I could, but they'll wake you in Loughglinn, Ned, in the cottage by the wood. The lines were written in 1868 by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, locked inside Millbank Prison in London, mourning a fellow Fenian named Ned Duffy who had just died beside him. Duffy was twenty-seven, a tailor's son from a Roscommon village named after the small dark lake on its northern edge. He never went home. But the song did, and the song stayed, and a monument near the old school still bears his name.

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Loughglinn: The Dillon House

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Loughglinn House was raised around 1715 as the principal seat of the Dillon family, extended in the 1820s, and altered again in the early twentieth century. The Dillons were absentee landlords for much of the nineteenth century, content to draw rents from a distance while their a...

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Loughglinn: The Convent and the Cheese

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

In 1903, the house was sold to Dr Clancy, Bishop of Elphin, who invited the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary to establish a convent. The sisters opened a school where teenage girls learned home economics. They also opened a dairy. Loughglinn butter and cheese became famous well be...

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Loughglinn: April 1921

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On 19 April 1921, four Irish Republican Army men were sheltering in a house near Loughglinn wood. They learned that the Black and Tans, under Captain McKay of the Leicestershire Regiment, were combing the woods. The four tried to escape. Joe Satchwell and Thomas Toby Scally were ...

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Loughglinn: Shannon's Cross

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On 7 July 1980, two Gardai - Detective Garda John Morley and Garda Henry Byrne - were murdered at Shannon's Cross, on the road just outside the village. They had been pursuing the getaway car from an armed robbery at the Bank of Ireland in Ballaghaderreen. Sergeant Mick O'Malley ...

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Loughglinn: The Church and the Lake

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel was built in 1905 and dedicated the following year. William Byrne designed it in a Gothic style, with an octagonal bell turret rising into a slim spire, polished granite pillars inside, and richly molded arches. It replaced a 1798 barn churc...

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