Qualla: Slane https://qualla.com/slane 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/e/3/slane-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Slane https://qualla.com/slane Slane: Introduction https://qualla.com/slane/ Photo credit Dieglop, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the spring of 433 AD, according to the seventh-century monk Muirchu, Saint Patrick climbed the hill north of what is now the village of Slane and lit a Paschal fire to mark Easter. Sixteen kilometres south on the Hill of Tara, the High King Laoire was holding his own festival fire, and had decreed that no other fire could be lit in the kingdom while his was burning. Patrick lit one anyway. Laoire could see the flames from Tara. According to the legend, the king was so impressed by the audacity that he let Patrick keep preaching. Historians do not believe the story exactly as Muirchu told it, but the Hill of Slane has been a place of fire and ceremony for so long that the legend feels like it has always belonged here.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/3/slane-wp/gce3-slane-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Slane: The Hill https://qualla.com/slane/ Photo credit Patleahy, Public domain. The Hill of Slane rises 158 metres above the river, and from its summit on a clear day you can see the Mournes to the north, the Wicklows to the south, and the Hill of Tara across the country to the southwest. The Fir Bolg king Sláine mac Dela is said in the Metrical Dindshenchas...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/3/slane-wp/gce3-slane-the-hill.mp3 0:06 2 full Slane: The Castle and the Concert https://qualla.com/slane/ Photo credit Mkooiman, CC BY-SA 3.0. Slane Castle stands on the north bank of the Boyne about a kilometre upstream of the village. The Conyngham family acquired it during the Williamite confiscations of the seventeenth century, replacing the Flemings, who had been Norman lords of Slane since the 1170s and whose orig...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/3/slane-wp/gce3-slane-the-castle-and-the-concert.mp3 0:06 3 full Slane: Gallows Hill https://qualla.com/slane/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. The centre of the village incorporates a rise called Gallows Hill, named for what was done there after the failed United Irish rebellion of 1798. In the aftermath, captured United Irishmen from the local area were hanged in public on a gallows at the foot of the hill - in the pla...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/3/slane-wp/gce3-slane-gallows-hill.mp3 0:06 4 full Slane: Mill, Bridge, and Whiskey https://qualla.com/slane/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. David Jebb, the engineer who built the Boyne Navigation canals in the 1760s connecting Slane to the port at Drogheda ten kilometres downstream, also built Slane Mill. The five-storey cut-stone building stands on the north bank by the bridge, completed in 1766, and for a while it ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/3/slane-wp/gce3-slane-mill-bridge-and-whiskey.mp3 0:06 5 full Slane: The Bones of the Country https://qualla.com/slane/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Slane sits at the centre of one of the densest concentrations of ancient sites in Europe. Five kilometres downstream, on a bend in the Boyne, lies Bru na Boinne - the UNESCO complex of Neolithic chamber tombs that includes Newgrange, built about 3200 BC, older than the pyramids a...

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