Qualla: Maghery https://qualla.com/maghery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Maghery https://qualla.com/maghery Maghery: Introduction https://qualla.com/maghery/ Eleanor Campbell kept a public house in Maghery, near the Blackwater quay. On the morning of 22 November 1830, between eleven and twelve o'clock, she was standing in her doorway when a great number of men came down across the fields. They smashed her windows, fired a gun at her son on the loft, stabbed her with a bayonet, took her gun, broke her clock, spilled five or six gallons of spirits and beer, robbed her of her money. They called out, "We are Killyman boys." Her deposition, sworn before a Parliamentary Select Committee five years later, is part of the printed record. Twenty-six houses in Maghery were wrecked that day. Seven Orangemen were charged with the attack. All were acquitted. This is what a small village on Lough Neagh sometimes carries in its memory.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/q/maghery-wp/gceq-maghery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Maghery: Where the Rivers Meet https://qualla.com/maghery/ Maghery sits in the northwest corner of County Armagh, on the southwest shore of Lough Neagh, near Derrywarragh Island. Its strategic significance, in centuries when armies and traders moved by water, came from its position between the estuaries of the rivers Blackwater and Bann ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/q/maghery-wp/gceq-maghery-where-the-rivers-meet.mp3 0:06 2 full Maghery: Two Riots https://qualla.com/maghery/ The 1830 attack was not isolated. In May 1894, the funeral procession of Thomas Irwin - an elderly Orangeman from the townland of Cranfield, being carried from his home to burial in Milltown graveyard - passed through Maghery. According to the Belfast Newsletter's report, a Natio...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/q/maghery-wp/gceq-maghery-two-riots.mp3 0:06 3 full Maghery: The Bridge That Replaced the Ferry https://qualla.com/maghery/ For most of its history Maghery was connected to the wider lough by water, not road. A car ferry crossed the mouth of the River Blackwater until the 1970s, when it was withdrawn and the village lost its direct link to the eastern shore. Decades later, the Maghery Bridge was built...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/q/maghery-wp/gceq-maghery-the-bridge-that-replaced-the-ferry.mp3 0:06 4 full Maghery: The Country Park https://qualla.com/maghery/ Maghery Country Park covers 30 acres of woodland walks and picnic areas on the lough shore - a green wedge between village and water that draws birdwatchers and walkers throughout the year. Five kilometres of trails wind through ancient woodland and reedbed habitat. Fishermen com...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/q/maghery-wp/gceq-maghery-the-country-park.mp3 0:06 5 full Maghery: An Ordinary Crossroads https://qualla.com/maghery/ Maghery had a population of just over two thousand at the 2001 census. It sits within the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council area, two miles from the M1 motorway, with Translink bus service 75 running daily to both Portadown and Dungannon (about 35 minutes eithe...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/q/maghery-wp/gceq-maghery-an-ordinary-crossroads.mp3 0:06 6 full Maghery: Looking West Across the Water https://qualla.com/maghery/ Stand at the slipway in Maghery and look northeast across Lough Neagh; on a clear day you can pick out the Sperrins receding into haze over County Tyrone. Look northwest and the Blackwater opens its estuary toward Coalisland and Dungannon. Look southeast and the Bann winds back t...

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