Qualla: Maghera https://qualla.com/maghera 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: Maghera https://qualla.com/maghera Maghera: Introduction https://qualla.com/maghera/ Charles Thomson signed the Declaration of Independence as 'from Maghera'. The man who served as Secretary of the Continental Congress, who kept the minutes of the American Revolution for fifteen years, who personally read the Declaration aloud to Congress on 4 July 1776 - he was born in this small town at the foot of the Glenshane Pass in 1729 and emigrated as a boy, but he never forgot. When he signed, he wrote the name of a place most Americans had never heard of. A County Londonderry market town of a few thousand souls, with a ruined 10th-century church on its main street and a stone-carved crucifixion above the doorway that may be the oldest depiction of Christ on the cross anywhere in Ireland.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/2/maghera-wp/gcg2-maghera-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Maghera: Saint Lurach's Doorway https://qualla.com/maghera/ The Old Church of St Lurach sits roofless in the middle of town, its walls dating to the 10th century, its foundations going back to the 6th century when Saint Lurach is said to have established a religious settlement here. Above one doorway, carved into a single horizontal stone...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/2/maghera-wp/gcg2-maghera-saint-lurachs-doorway.mp3 0:06 2 full Maghera: Watty Graham's Hill https://qualla.com/maghera/ On the morning of 7 June 1798, more than five thousand men assembled on the hills above Maghera. They were United Irishmen - Presbyterian farmers, Catholic labourers, doctors and ministers who had pledged 'to form a Brotherhood of affection amongst Irishmen of every religious per...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/2/maghera-wp/gcg2-maghera-watty-grahams-hill.mp3 0:06 3 full Maghera: Famine Plot https://qualla.com/maghera/ The 1840s emptied the countryside around Maghera. The Great Famine struck the rural districts hardest, and the local population in the surrounding parishes has never fully recovered - in some areas it remains below 19th-century levels. The town itself fell to a low of perhaps 879...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/2/maghera-wp/gcg2-maghera-famine-plot.mp3 0:06 4 full Maghera: Fourteen Names https://qualla.com/maghera/ Fourteen people were killed in or near Maghera during the Troubles - a quietly catastrophic number for a town of its size. Half were members of the security forces. Two more died because their families served in the Ulster Defence Regiment. The Provisional IRA was responsible for...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/2/maghera-wp/gcg2-maghera-fourteen-names.mp3 0:06 5 full Maghera: Brooke Scullion and the Hogan Cup https://qualla.com/maghera/ St Patrick's College, the comprehensive on the edge of town, sends children to the Hogan Cup like other schools send theirs to the chess club. Six All-Ireland senior football titles by 2025, including the most recent. Seventeen MacRory Cups. Seventeen Mageean Cups. The school pro...

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