Qualla: Rosguill https://qualla.com/rosguill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/6/rosguill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Rosguill https://qualla.com/rosguill Rosguill: Introduction https://qualla.com/rosguill/ Photo credit Kanchelskis, Public domain. The name is a grudge in stone. Ros Goill - Headland of Goll - commemorates the moment Fionn mac Cumhaill finally caught up with Goll mac Morna, the man who killed his father, and slew him at a rock off the townland of Dumhaigh. Or so the legend tells it. Whether that vendetta really played out on this small peninsula between Sheephaven and Mulroy Bays, no one can say. What is certain is that the people of Rosguill, nearly 800 of them, live in a place whose every hill and beach is layered with story. About a third of them still answer in Irish when you greet them in it, marking this corner of north Donegal as one of the most easterly Gaeltacht communities surviving in Ireland.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/6/rosguill-wp/gcf6-rosguill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Rosguill: Legends in the Landscape https://qualla.com/rosguill/ Photo credit Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0. The highest points on the peninsula, Gainne Mhor and Gainne Bheag - anglicised as Ganiamore - carry the name of Grainne, the beautiful princess promised to Fionn but in love with Diarmuid. Legend places the fugitive lovers here on their flight to Scotland, resting on the hill bef...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/6/rosguill-wp/gcf6-rosguill-legends-in-the-landscape.mp3 0:06 2 full Rosguill: Saints, Curses, and Footprints https://qualla.com/rosguill/ Photo credit Brendandh at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Like much of Donegal, Rosguill belongs to St Colm Cille - Columba in English. Born at Gartan a few miles inland, a great-grandson of Conall Gulban himself, Colm Cille founded the monasteries of Derry and Kells before sailing into exile in Dal Riata. Along the way, legend says, he...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/6/rosguill-wp/gcf6-rosguill-saints-curses-and-footprints.mp3 0:06 3 full Rosguill: Two Sides and an Upper Part https://qualla.com/rosguill/ Photo credit Patrice78500, CC BY-SA 4.0. Rosguill organizes itself in the old Donegal way. The western side of the peninsula, looking out at Sheephaven Bay, is called The Bottom. The eastern side, on Mulroy Bay, is The Far Side. The townlands on the mainland end of the peninsula are The Upper Part. Nineteen townlands ma...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/6/rosguill-wp/gcf6-rosguill-two-sides-and-an-upper-part.mp3 0:06 4 full Rosguill: The Quiet Harbour and the Big Fish https://qualla.com/rosguill/ Photo credit MaxPride, CC BY-SA 4.0. Today, Downings Harbour on Sheephaven Bay has become an improbable centre for big-game fishing. Each autumn, charter boats leave the small Donegal pier in pursuit of giant bluefin tuna, fish that can run over 200 kilograms, drawn into the waters off the north coast by the same At...

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