Qualla: Porthall https://qualla.com/porthall 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: Porthall https://qualla.com/porthall Porthall: Introduction https://qualla.com/porthall/ Tony Marreco was a junior counsel at the Nuremberg Trials just after the Second World War, prosecuting Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. He later became a founding director of Amnesty International. He also, at some point in his life, owned a mid-18th-century Georgian house on the west bank of the River Foyle in a small east Donegal village called Porthall - a house so distinctive that the village takes its name from it. Port Hall is now a stud farm at the village's northern edge. Marreco is long dead. But the casual juxtaposition - human rights pioneer, Donegal stud farm, Nuremberg, Foyle - is the sort of thing that gives small Irish places their particular weight.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/8/porthall-wp/gcf8-porthall-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Porthall: Houses That Refuse to Fall https://qualla.com/porthall/ Long Vale House, previously called Clonfade, sits on the outskirts of Porthall on the R265 road to Lifford. Parts of it were built in 1611 - making it one of the oldest houses in County Donegal. The builder, Thomas Keyes, had served under Sir Richard Hansard during the Plantation...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/8/porthall-wp/gcf8-porthall-houses-that-refuse-to-fall.mp3 0:06 2 full Porthall: The King's Letter https://qualla.com/porthall/ James II - the last Catholic king of England, Scotland, and Ireland - visited Mongevlin Castle on his way to the siege of Derry in 1689. The siege would last 105 days and end in failure for James, but on the night he stopped at Mongevlin he still believed the Jacobite cause might...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/8/porthall-wp/gcf8-porthall-the-kings-letter.mp3 0:06 3 full Porthall: The Battle Up the Road https://qualla.com/porthall/ Two and a half miles northwest of Porthall, at the summit of a hill called Binnion, the Battle of Binnion Hill was fought in 1557. The story is the same one passed down in Porthall's local history as if the village had a stake in it - because in a sense it does. Calvagh O'Donnell...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/8/porthall-wp/gcf8-porthall-the-battle-up-the-road.mp3 0:06 4 full Porthall: A Station That Closed https://qualla.com/porthall/ Porthall railway station opened on 1 May 1848 as part of the Great Northern Railway of Ireland, on the line that ran from Belfast Great Victoria Street through Portadown, Dungannon, Omagh, Victoria Bridge, Strabane, Porthall, and St Johnston to Foyle Road station in Derry City. G...

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