Qualla: Nenagh https://qualla.com/nenagh 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: Nenagh https://qualla.com/nenagh Nenagh: Introduction https://qualla.com/nenagh/ Three men from Nenagh stood on Olympic podiums in the early twentieth century and took home gold. Johnny Hayes won the marathon at London in 1908, in a race so absurd and dramatic - Dorando Pietri staggering across the line and being disqualified - that it changed the rules of distance running forever. Matt McGrath won the hammer throw at Stockholm in 1912. Bob Tisdall won the 400 metre hurdles at Los Angeles in 1932. The local athletic club is called Nenagh Olympic and its badge is three interlocking rings in green, white and orange, and there is a bronze statue of the three of them in Banba Square in the town. Nenagh is a small town. It has made an outsize contribution to athletics.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/h/nenagh-wp/gc6h-nenagh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Nenagh: A keep of thirty metres https://qualla.com/nenagh/ The first thing you see arriving in Nenagh is the cylindrical limestone keep that rises in the middle of the town - over thirty metres high, sixteen metres across at the base, one of the finest surviving Norman keeps in Ireland. It was begun by Theobald Walter, first Baron Butler...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/h/nenagh-wp/gc6h-nenagh-a-keep-of-thirty-metres.mp3 0:06 2 full Nenagh: The Franciscans of 1252 https://qualla.com/nenagh/ Beside the castle stand the ruins of one of the richest medieval religious houses in Ireland: the Franciscan Friary at Nenagh, founded in 1252 during the reign of Henry III of England. The friary became the head of the Irish Custody of West Ireland, a regional administrative cent...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/h/nenagh-wp/gc6h-nenagh-the-franciscans-of-1252.mp3 0:06 3 full Nenagh: Banba Square and the hanging judge https://qualla.com/nenagh/ The handsome 1843 Nenagh Courthouse, designed by John B. Keane in classical revival style, dominates Banba Square. Across from it is the old jail with its distinctive octagonal governor's residence - now a heritage centre - and beyond that the 1895 Town Hall, designed by the town...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/h/nenagh-wp/gc6h-nenagh-banba-square-and-the-hanging-judge.mp3 0:06 4 full Nenagh: Patrick Collison and Shane MacGowan https://qualla.com/nenagh/ Patrick Collison was born in Nenagh in 1988. With his brother John he co-founded the payments company Stripe, which by 2026 was processing trillions of dollars annually and was valued among the most highly capitalised private technology companies in the world. The Collisons grew ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/h/nenagh-wp/gc6h-nenagh-patrick-collison-and-shane-macgowan.mp3 0:06 5 full Nenagh: Silvermines, salmon, and the long shadow of mining https://qualla.com/nenagh/ South of Nenagh rises the Silvermine Mountain range, with Keeper Hill at 694 metres as the highest peak. The name is not metaphorical: silver was mined here intermittently for over seven hundred years, along with copper, lead and zinc. Nineteenth-century mine workings still scar ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/h/nenagh-wp/gc6h-nenagh-silvermines-salmon-and-the-long-shadow-of-mining.mp3 0:06 6 full Nenagh: The lake at the end of the road https://qualla.com/nenagh/ Nine kilometres northwest of Nenagh, the Nenagh River empties into Lough Derg at Dromineer - a small village that becomes, in summer, the busy sailing and watersports centre of central Ireland. Lough Derg is the largest lake on the River Shannon, twenty-five miles long, fed and d...

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