Qualla: Mahon https://qualla.com/mahon-cork en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/mahon-cork-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mahon https://qualla.com/mahon-cork Mahon: Introduction https://qualla.com/mahon-cork/ Photo credit David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0. Until the 1970s, Mahon was a peninsula of fields. A spit of land jutting out into the upper reaches of Cork Harbour, its name a memory of the O'Mahony family who once ruled this corner of Munster - rinn Mahon, the O'Mahony point. Within a generation it became something else entirely: a sprawling residential and commercial district anchored by an enormous shopping centre, a thirteen-screen cinema, and the south portal of the Jack Lynch Tunnel. The mudflats of Lough Mahon still draw migrating waders at low tide. Just down the road, the ruined Dundanion Castle marks the point from which William Penn is said to have sailed for America in 1682. Mahon is a place where centuries collide quietly.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/mahon-cork-wp/gc4p-mahon-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mahon: Ring of Mahon https://qualla.com/mahon-cork/ Photo credit Guliolopez, CC BY-SA 4.0. Locals still call it the Ring of Mahon, the older name for the peninsula. The Irish rinn means a point of land, and Mahon is the anglicised spelling of the Gaelic Machain - a reference to the O'Mahony clan who controlled this stretch of the harbour in medieval times. In 1839 the ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/mahon-cork-wp/gc4p-mahon-ring-of-mahon.mp3 0:06 2 full Mahon: Lough Mahon's Edges https://qualla.com/mahon-cork/ Photo credit David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0. Lough Mahon is not a lake but a tidal expanse - twelve square kilometres of upper Cork Harbour, reaching from the Mahon peninsula southward to Passage West and inland to take in the estuary of the Douglas River. At high tide it is a great sheet of brackish water with the southern...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/mahon-cork-wp/gc4p-mahon-lough-mahons-edges.mp3 0:06 3 full Mahon: Penn's Departure https://qualla.com/mahon-cork/ Photo credit David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0. Just over the boundary in Blackrock, the ruined sixteenth-century Dundanion Castle stands quietly above the harbour. From this point, according to tradition, William Penn sailed for America in 1682 - the founder of Pennsylvania and the namesake of the American state, taking his Q...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/mahon-cork-wp/gc4p-mahon-penns-departure.mp3 0:06 4 full Mahon: The Modern Reinvention https://qualla.com/mahon-cork/ Photo credit David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0. Mahon's late-twentieth-century transformation happened fast. The N40 ring road came through along the peninsula's eastern and southern edges, plunging into the Jack Lynch Tunnel under the Lee. Housing estates filled the old farmland. Schools followed - Nagle Community College in ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/mahon-cork-wp/gc4p-mahon-the-modern-reinvention.mp3 0:06 5 full Mahon: Cork's Sporting Edge https://qualla.com/mahon-cork/ Photo credit David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0. Mahon punches above its weight in Cork sporting life. St Michael's GAA Club and Ballinure GAA Club represent the area in Gaelic football and hurling. Ringmahon Rangers, the local football club, has produced an unusual number of professional players, including Alan Browne, born in...

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