Qualla: Portumna https://qualla.com/portumna 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: Portumna https://qualla.com/portumna Portumna: Introduction https://qualla.com/portumna/ Port Omna—'the landing place of the oak.' The name records the Shannon's habit of carrying down great timbers from the upper river to where Galway and Tipperary meet at the head of Lough Derg, and where a sequence of ferries, fords, and finally a bridge has carried people across the water for at least a thousand years. The bridge that stands there now is a five-span steel structure designed by C. E. Stanier of London and completed in 1911. Its central swing section, replaced in October 2008, is the largest early twentieth-century swing bridge in Europe. Below it the river separates around Hayes's Island into two channels, 79 metres wide on the Tipperary side, 73 on the Galway side. Above it the medieval town climbs gently to the bones of its older history.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/n/portumna-wp/gc6n-portumna-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Portumna: The Earl's Semi-Fortified House https://qualla.com/portumna/ Portumna Castle was built before 1618 by Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde—a 'semi-fortified house' rather than a true defensive castle, marking the moment when Irish lords stopped expecting to be besieged and started building for comfort. It served as the main seat of the d...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/n/portumna-wp/gc6n-portumna-the-earls-semi-fortified-house.mp3 0:06 2 full Portumna: The Land War Begins Here https://qualla.com/portumna/ Hubert de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde, was one of the most notorious landlords in nineteenth-century Ireland. From the comfort of his London apartments, he treated his Galway tenants with a coldness so total that the Irish National Land League launched its Plan of ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/n/portumna-wp/gc6n-portumna-the-land-war-begins-here.mp3 0:06 3 full Portumna: The Workhouse and the Famine https://qualla.com/portumna/ The Portumna Union was formally declared on 22 February 1850, a subdivision of the Ballinasloe and Loughrea Poor Law Unions. By that point the Great Famine had already killed and exiled enormous numbers of the people the union was meant to serve. The workhouse, designed by the Po...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/n/portumna-wp/gc6n-portumna-the-workhouse-and-the-famine.mp3 0:06 4 full Portumna: Forest Park and Shannon Junction https://qualla.com/portumna/ Portumna Forest Park covers almost 600 hectares on the northern shore of Lough Derg—originally part of the Earl of Clanricarde's lands, purchased by the Irish government in 1948 and now owned by Coillte. Forest and lakeside walks thread through a mostly coniferous canopy interrup...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/n/portumna-wp/gc6n-portumna-forest-park-and-shannon-junction.mp3 0:06 5 full Portumna: The Hurlers and the Wild Geese https://qualla.com/portumna/ Portumna GAA has won the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship four times—in 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2014—and the Galway County Senior Hurling title six times. The hurler Joe Canning came up through this club before going on to a Galway senior career studded with All-Stars. ...

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