Qualla: Tonragee https://qualla.com/tonragee 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/8/f/tonragee-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tonragee https://qualla.com/tonragee Tonragee: Introduction https://qualla.com/tonragee/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Irish name says it all. Tóin Re Gaoith translates, somewhat informally, as 'backside to the wind' - the posture every house on the Currane peninsula instinctively adopts, hunkered low and turned away from the Atlantic gales that come howling in from the southwest. Tonragee is split between two townlands, Tonregee East and Tonregee West, with a combined population of barely 150 souls at the 2011 census. There is a national school, a pipe band, a road and the ghost of a railway. What there is in abundance is wind, bog, and the long horizontal sky that defines this corner of County Mayo.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/f/tonragee-wp/gc8f-tonragee-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tonragee: The School at Tonragee https://qualla.com/tonragee/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. Scoil Náisiúnta Tóin Na Gaoithe - the local primary school, its name carrying the same windswept poetry as the village's - enrolled 66 pupils in 2024. By rural Mayo standards, that is a healthy number; many parishes have watched their schools close as families moved to towns or a...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/f/tonragee-wp/gc8f-tonragee-the-school-at-tonragee.mp3 0:06 2 full Tonragee: A Band of Pipers https://qualla.com/tonragee/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Tonragee Pipe Band - Banna Píob Thóin Ré Gaoith in its full Irish title - is the other anchor of community life. Pipe bands are a long Mayo tradition, often founded by returned emigrants or local enthusiasts and sustained across generations through evening practice in halls a...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/f/tonragee-wp/gc8f-tonragee-a-band-of-pipers.mp3 0:06 3 full Tonragee: The Railway That Was https://qualla.com/tonragee/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. Once, a different sound passed through Tonragee. The Achill Extension Railway - a branch line of the Midland Great Western Railway - threaded along this part of the Currane peninsula, hauling tourists west toward Achill Sound from the late 19th century. It was a remote line for a...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/f/tonragee-wp/gc8f-tonragee-the-railway-that-was.mp3 0:06 4 full Tonragee: The R319 https://qualla.com/tonragee/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. The R319 regional road - the main artery out to Achill - cuts through Tonragee on its way west. In recent years the road through the village has subsided in places, an embarrassing reminder that bog underlies most of the surface here and that bog does not like to be sat on by hea...

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