Qualla: Tandragee https://qualla.com/tandragee 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/m/tandragee-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tandragee https://qualla.com/tandragee Tandragee: Introduction https://qualla.com/tandragee/ Photo credit P Flannagan, CC BY-SA 2.0. Buy a packet of Tayto cheese-and-onion crisps anywhere on the island of Ireland, and the bag traces back to a hillside above the Cusher River in Tandragee, County Armagh. The crisps have been made in the demesne of Tandragee Castle since 1956, when the businessman Thomas Hutchinson bought the estate and turned it into a factory. The castle itself was rebuilt in 1837 for George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester, on top of an earlier stronghold burned in the 1641 rebellion. Most small towns in Ulster have a famous old castle, a battle story, and a church. Tandragee has all three, plus a crisp factory that gives free guided tours and a motorcycle road race that has been roaring around the surrounding country roads since 1958.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/m/tandragee-wp/gcem-tandragee-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tandragee: Edmond O'Hanlon Burns The Town https://qualla.com/tandragee/ Photo credit Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 23 October 1641, Patrick and Edmond O'Hanlon led an Irish rebel attack on the fortified town of Tandragee. The O'Hanlons were trying to reclaim their ancestral territory from Plantation settlers, and Tandragee was one of the first targets to fall. Protestant inhabitants were r...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/m/tandragee-wp/gcem-tandragee-edmond-ohanlon-burns-the-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Tandragee: Lord Mandeville's Castle https://qualla.com/tandragee/ Photo credit Denzell393 (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. In about 1837, the 6th Duke of Manchester rebuilt the ruined fortified house as a romantic Scottish-baronial castle in the fashion of the day. Crenellated towers, mock arrow-slits, a Gothic gateway. The Montagu family used the building as their Irish seat for the rest of the 19th...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/m/tandragee-wp/gcem-tandragee-lord-mandevilles-castle.mp3 0:06 3 full Tandragee: Tayto, Or, The Crisp Factory In The Castle https://qualla.com/tandragee/ Photo credit Brian Shaw, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1956, the businessman Thomas Hutchinson bought the castle and grounds for his crisp company, Tayto (Northern Ireland), which had been founded in 1956 by Hutchinson's brother-in-law. The factory has been there ever since. Tayto crisps are a fixture of Irish childhood; the brand...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/m/tandragee-wp/gcem-tandragee-tayto-or-the-crisp-factory-in-the-castle.mp3 0:06 4 full Tandragee: The Tandragee 100 https://qualla.com/tandragee/ Photo credit P Flannagan, CC BY-SA 2.0. Every year since 1958, the small roads around Tandragee have been closed for one of the great real-road motorcycle races in Northern Ireland. The Tandragee 100 is a 100-mile handicap event run on public country roads through the surrounding farmland. The names that have raced and...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/m/tandragee-wp/gcem-tandragee-the-tandragee-100.mp3 0:06 5 full Tandragee: Ballymore Church https://qualla.com/tandragee/ Photo credit P Flannagan, CC BY-SA 2.0. Just beside the castle, on Church Street, stands Ballymore Parish Church. The building dates to 1343 in part, with reconstruction in 1812 after centuries of damage. Excavators found scorched stones in its walls during the 1812 rebuilding, evidence of the fire set by Edmond O'Hanl...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/m/tandragee-wp/gcem-tandragee-ballymore-church.mp3 0:06 6 full Tandragee: Cooking, Drumming, And Departing https://qualla.com/tandragee/ Photo credit HENRY CLARK, CC BY-SA 2.0. Lambeg drumming, the immense Lambeg drum strapped to a man's chest and beaten with cane sticks, is an Ulster Protestant tradition; one particular drumming rhythm is named for the town, Tandragee Time, and is heard at Twelfth parades throughout County Armagh. The county's other gr...

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