Qualla: Mochrum https://qualla.com/mochrum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/x/mochrum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mochrum https://qualla.com/mochrum Mochrum: Introduction https://qualla.com/mochrum/ Photo credit David Baird, CC BY-SA 2.0. Mochrum is a name with a humble translation. It is Cumbric - the lost Brittonic language of southern Scotland - and it breaks down into moch, meaning pigs, and drum, meaning ridge. Pig Ridge. There is a small chance the name is instead Gaelic, formed from the cognate elements muc-druim, but the Cumbric reading is the likelier one. Either way, the swineherds came first, and the parish that grew up around the ridge inherited the name. Today Mochrum covers 22,000 acres of coastal Galloway between Luce Bay and Wigtown Bay, with a small village at its centre, the planned harbour town of Port William on its shoreline, and underneath the surface of nearly every field, evidence of human habitation reaching back eight thousand years.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/x/mochrum-wp/gcsx-mochrum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mochrum: A Kirk Built Twice https://qualla.com/mochrum/ Photo credit David Baird, CC BY-SA 2.0. The parish kirk at Mochrum is the third or fourth building on a site that has held a church since at least the 12th century. The medieval predecessor was largely destroyed by fire in the 1770s, but enough of the rectangular walls survived that the masons reused them when they reb...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/x/mochrum-wp/gcsx-mochrum-a-kirk-built-twice.mp3 0:06 2 full Mochrum: Sir John Dunbar's Flodden https://qualla.com/mochrum/ Photo credit Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. The medieval history of Mochrum runs through two families. The Dunbars held the parish from the late medieval period, and Sir John Dunbar of Mochrum died at the Battle of Flodden in 1513 - one of roughly 10,000 Scots killed that day along with King James IV. His widow Janet Stewa...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/x/mochrum-wp/gcsx-mochrum-sir-john-dunbars-flodden.mp3 0:06 3 full Mochrum: Eight Thousand Years of Footprints https://qualla.com/mochrum/ Photo credit David Baird, CC BY-SA 2.0. About a mile from Monreith, where the coast turns at Barsalloch Point, there is evidence of human encampments dating to around 6000 BC. If the dating holds, this may be the oldest known settlement in all of Galloway. The Barsalloch Iron Age fort sits on the same headland, much la...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/x/mochrum-wp/gcsx-mochrum-eight-thousand-years-of-footprints.mp3 0:06 4 full Mochrum: Chapel Finian and the Pilgrim Coast https://qualla.com/mochrum/ Photo credit Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. On an old raised beach at Corwall Port, the foundations of Chapel Finian sit just above the high-water mark of Luce Bay. The chapel was built in the 10th or 11th century and most likely named for Saint Finnian, who was educated at nearby Whithorn and died around 579 AD. Tradition...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/x/mochrum-wp/gcsx-mochrum-chapel-finian-and-the-pilgrim-coast.mp3 0:06 5 full Mochrum: Reading the Lochs https://qualla.com/mochrum/ Photo credit Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Mochrum Loch lies at the heart of the parish, with Castle Loch beside it and Elrig Loch slightly to the east. The Castle Loch Burn flows from Castle Loch into Mochrum Loch, water linking the lochs across the gentle inland landscape. Cairns from the Bronze Age cap Mochrum Fell. Bu...

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