Qualla: The Rosses https://qualla.com/the-rosses 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: The Rosses https://qualla.com/the-rosses The Rosses: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-rosses/ Approach by the N56 from Glenties and the road bends past a thousand small lakes set into a landscape that looks scraped clean by something. This is the Rosses - in Irish, *Na Rosa*, "the headlands" - and the rock that the Atlantic exposes here is some of the oldest in Ireland. About seven thousand people live across this district in west Donegal, centred on Dungloe but spread out across fishing villages, offshore islands, and pockets of high ground where Irish is still the everyday language. Daniel O'Donnell came from here. So did Packie Bonner, who saved a penalty against Romania in 1990 and sent Ireland into the World Cup quarter-finals. The Rosses produces singers, footballers, songwriters, and emigrants, often in roughly that order.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/0/the-rosses-wp/gcf0-the-rosses-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Rosses: The Three Parishes https://qualla.com/the-rosses/ The Rosses is not exactly a county, not exactly a parish, and not exactly anything you would find on a road sign with a population figure. It is a region in the older sense - bounded by rivers and history. The Gweebarra to the south, the Crolly River to the north, the Derryveagh ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/0/the-rosses-wp/gcf0-the-rosses-the-three-parishes.mp3 0:06 2 full The Rosses: Lakes and the Atlantic https://qualla.com/the-rosses/ Geologically, the Rosses sits on Caledonian granite, the rock pushed up roughly four hundred million years ago and then sandblasted by glaciers. The landscape is what is left: bare rock, peat, and a chaos of small lakes that locals call loughs - Lough Anure, Lough Craghy, Dungloe...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/0/the-rosses-wp/gcf0-the-rosses-lakes-and-the-atlantic.mp3 0:06 3 full The Rosses: St Crona and the Armada https://qualla.com/the-rosses/ The Rosses has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, but its first dated landmark is the church of St Crona at Templecrone, near Dungloe, founded in the 6th century by a cousin of Columcille - the same Columcille who founded the monastery at Iona that helped re-Christianise Britai...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/0/the-rosses-wp/gcf0-the-rosses-st-crona-and-the-armada.mp3 0:06 4 full The Rosses: The Cope https://qualla.com/the-rosses/ The Rosses has its own supermarket chain, which feels like an unusual fact until you understand the local history. The Cope - properly the Templecrone Co-operative Agricultural Society - was founded in 1906 by Patrick "Paddy the Cope" Gallagher, a returned emigrant who had seen c...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/0/the-rosses-wp/gcf0-the-rosses-the-cope.mp3 0:06 5 full The Rosses: Mary from Dungloe https://qualla.com/the-rosses/ Every August, the small town of Dungloe hosts the Mary From Dungloe International Festival, a competition for young women of Donegal descent from around the world. The festival has run since 1967 and takes its name from a love song about a girl named Mary who is leaving the Rosse...

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