Qualla: Schull https://qualla.com/schull en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Schull https://qualla.com/schull Schull: Introduction https://qualla.com/schull/ The name is contested. Locals say it 'Skull' and the place was spelled that way for centuries - in a Decretal Letter of Pope Innocent III in 1199, in the 17th-century Down Survey, on the Grand Jury Map of the 1790s. Then in 1893, a Schull priest named John O'Connor, who fancied himself a historian, apparently misread a Latin text as referring to a 'College of St. Mary' in Skull. The text was actually about a college in Waterford. But the slip stuck. By the time the Placenames (County Cork) Order of 2012 was published, the official Irish name was Scoil Mhuire - 'Mary's School' - based on what a 19th-century parish priest had gotten wrong. The town below Mount Gabriel kept both spellings, and a quietly amused identity along with them.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/j/schull-wp/gc1j-schull-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Schull: Under Mount Gabriel https://qualla.com/schull/ The town sits at sea level on the peninsula leading out to Mizen Head, with the 407-metre bulk of Mount Gabriel rising directly behind it. The radar domes on the mountain's summit have been visible from every Schull street and harbour for decades - civilian air-traffic radars, no...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/j/schull-wp/gc1j-schull-under-mount-gabriel.mp3 0:06 2 full Schull: Pirates, Famine, and a Country Rector https://qualla.com/schull/ Schull's history runs deep. The Altar Wedge Tomb, six kilometres west, was built between 3000 and 2000 BC; ringforts and fulacht fiadh sites dot the surrounding townlands. The medieval church in Schull's graveyard was first referenced - alongside the town itself - in Pope Innocen...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/j/schull-wp/gc1j-schull-a-town-that-looks-up.mp3 0:06 4 full Schull: December 1996 https://qualla.com/schull/ On the night of 23 December 1996, the French television producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered at her holiday home in Dreenane, near Toormore, just outside Schull. She was 39. The case remains unsolved by Irish authorities thirty years later, despite enormous investigati...

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