Qualla: Mull of Galloway https://qualla.com/mull-of-galloway 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/w/mull-of-galloway-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mull of Galloway https://qualla.com/mull-of-galloway Mull of Galloway: Introduction https://qualla.com/mull-of-galloway/ Photo credit Billy McCrorie, CC BY-SA 2.0. Stand at the railing beside the Mull of Galloway lighthouse on a clear day and the geography arranges itself in three directions at once. Northern Ireland sits low on the western horizon. The Isle of Man rises out of the southern haze like a long blue back. Behind you, the peninsula of the Rhins narrows to nothing under the wheeling gulls. This is the southernmost place in Scotland. Cross to the railing on the far side of the headland and you are looking at England, just visible across the Solway Firth. Few patches of British ground show you so much at once.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/w/mull-of-galloway-wp/gcsw-mull-of-galloway-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mull of Galloway: A Rounded Headland in Gaelic https://qualla.com/mull-of-galloway/ Photo credit Douglas Gemmell, CC BY-SA 2.0. Mull, in Scottish geography, simply means a rounded headland or promontory - the same word that gives the Isle of Mull its name far up the west coast. The Mull of Galloway is exactly that: a great rounded snout of cliff at the tip of the Rhins of Galloway, the hammer-headed penin...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/w/mull-of-galloway-wp/gcsw-mull-of-galloway-a-rounded-headland-in-gaelic.mp3 0:06 2 full Mull of Galloway: Stevenson's White Tower https://qualla.com/mull-of-galloway/ Photo credit Zambog, CC BY-SA 3.0. The lighthouse went up in 1830, designed by Robert Stevenson - grandfather of the novelist Robert Louis Stevenson and the most celebrated engineer in a family that built nearly every important Scottish lighthouse of the nineteenth century. The white-painted round tower stands 26 ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/w/mull-of-galloway-wp/gcsw-mull-of-galloway-stevensons-white-tower.mp3 0:06 3 full Mull of Galloway: The Beaufighter at Half-Past Seven https://qualla.com/mull-of-galloway/ Photo credit Ann Cook, CC BY-SA 2.0. On the evening of 8 June 1944 - two days after D-Day, with the Allied invasion just beginning to push inland in Normandy - a Bristol Beaufighter struck the Mull of Galloway lighthouse at half past seven in the evening. The pilot was Claudius Echallier, a Frenchman flying for the ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/w/mull-of-galloway-wp/gcsw-mull-of-galloway-the-beaufighter-at-half-past-seven.mp3 0:06 4 full Mull of Galloway: Community Buyout https://qualla.com/mull-of-galloway/ Photo credit andy, CC BY-SA 2.0. When the lighthouse went fully automatic, the future of the buildings around it became uncertain. The Northern Lighthouse Board no longer needed keepers' cottages or outhouses. So in 2013 the community did what small Scottish communities have started doing more and more often - t...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/w/mull-of-galloway-wp/gcsw-mull-of-galloway-community-buyout.mp3 0:06 5 full Mull of Galloway: A Café with a Turf Roof https://qualla.com/mull-of-galloway/ Photo credit David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 2004 a café opened just back from the cliff edge, low and tucked into the slope, with a roof of growing turf. It is called Gallie Craig, and from the inside the windows frame those three coastlines - Antrim and Down to the west, the Isle of Man to the south, the Galloway shore...

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