Qualla: Loughmore https://qualla.com/loughmore 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/6/k/loughmore-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Loughmore https://qualla.com/loughmore Loughmore: Introduction https://qualla.com/loughmore/ Photo credit Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0. The village is officially Loughmoe, in Irish Luach Maigh, the reward-field. The reward refers either to medieval feudal arrangements - lands held free of rent in return for some special service - or to the legend of the Purcell ancestor who killed a giant boar to win a king's daughter and the castle and the surrounding land. Either way, Loughmoe is a name with a story attached. The English form, Loughmore, is the result of a nineteenth-century British Ordnance Survey error: the cartographers misread the older Irish name as Loch Mór, great lake, which is not what it ever meant. The castle - Loughmoe Castle - kept the right spelling. The village did not. Most local people use both interchangeably and pronounce neither one correctly to outsiders.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/k/loughmore-wp/gc6k-loughmore-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Loughmore: The Golden Vale https://qualla.com/loughmore/ Photo credit Christopher2010xxx, CC BY-SA 4.0. Loughmore sits on the banks of the River Suir, 5.5 kilometres south of Templemore and 10 kilometres north of Thurles, just east of the N62 road that connects them. This is the Golden Vale - one of the richest agricultural areas in Europe, a great rolling plain of limestone-based ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/k/loughmore-wp/gc6k-loughmore-the-golden-vale.mp3 0:06 2 full Loughmore: The Cormack brothers https://qualla.com/loughmore/ Photo credit Krochmal, CC BY-SA 3.0. On a night in 1858, John Ellis, a land agent from Kilrush near Templemore, was shot dead as he walked home along a country lane. His way had been blocked by uprooted bushes and branches; a hidden assailant fired once and Ellis died an hour later. Ellis had been hated for evicting...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/k/loughmore-wp/gc6k-loughmore-the-cormack-brothers.mp3 0:06 3 full Loughmore: 11 May 1858 https://qualla.com/loughmore/ Photo credit Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0. On Thursday 11 May 1858, the Cormack brothers were hanged outside Nenagh Prison in front of a public crowd. Daniel Cormack spoke from the scaffold. Lord have mercy on me, he said, for you know, Jesus, that I neither had hand, act, nor part in that for which I am about to die. Goo...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/k/loughmore-wp/gc6k-loughmore-11-may-1858.mp3 0:06 4 full Loughmore: 1910: the brothers come home https://qualla.com/loughmore/ Photo credit Kweedado2, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1910 a committee was formed in Loughmore to exhume the bodies of Daniel and William Cormack from the unmarked grave in Nenagh Gaol and return them to the village for proper burial. The exhumation was carried out; the original oak coffins were still recognisable. Two hearses dr...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/k/loughmore-wp/gc6k-loughmore-1910-the-brothers-come-home.mp3 0:06 5 full Loughmore: Hurling and football, both https://qualla.com/loughmore/ Photo credit A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0. Loughmore-Castleiney GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club, and it is unusual in mid-Tipperary for one specific reason: it plays both Gaelic football and hurling at a serious level. The parish is known locally as a football island in a region where most of the surroun...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/k/loughmore-wp/gc6k-loughmore-hurling-and-football-both.mp3 0:06 6 full Loughmore: The fiddler and the suffragist https://qualla.com/loughmore/ Photo credit Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0. Kathleen Nesbitt of Loughmore was an award-winning traditional Irish fiddler in the twentieth century; her daughter Máiréad Nesbitt became the lead violinist of Celtic Woman, the global touring ensemble that has sold millions of records and headlined arenas across North America a...

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