Qualla: Tuam https://qualla.com/tuam 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: Tuam https://qualla.com/tuam Tuam: Introduction https://qualla.com/tuam/ The name itself is a clue. Tuam comes from the Irish Tuaim Da Ghualann - the burial mound of two shoulders - cognate with the Latin tumulus, mound. The shoulders are the twin ridges that rise on either side of the River Nanny, sheltering a fording point that humans have been using since at least the Bronze Age. In 1875 workmen near Shop Street dug up a Bronze Age burial urn. Three thousand years before any cathedral or town hall, this was already a place where the dead were laid in earth. The town has been a place of burial, and a place of careful forgetting and remembering, ever since.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/8/tuam-wp/gc98-tuam-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tuam: From Monk's Wheel to High King's Seat https://qualla.com/tuam/ The traceable story begins in the 6th century with Saint Jarlath. According to the Life of Brendan of Clonfert, the older monk told Jarlath to build a new chariot, set out, and stop where the two hind shafts broke. They broke at Tuam. Jarlath founded a monastery there - the histo...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/8/tuam-wp/gc98-tuam-sugar-showbands-and-the-saw-doctors.mp3 0:06 4 full Tuam: Sport and the County Game https://qualla.com/tuam/ Tuam Stars, founded in 1888, is the local Gaelic football club and one of Galway's most successful, with seven consecutive County Championship titles from 1954 to 1960. Sean Purcell and Frank Stockwell - widely regarded as one of the greatest forward partnerships in the history o...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/8/tuam-wp/gc98-tuam-sport-and-the-county-game.mp3 0:06 5 full Tuam: The Home and Its Reckoning https://qualla.com/tuam/ From 1925 until 1961, a building on the northwest edge of Tuam operated as a Mother and Baby Home run by the Bon Secours sisters. Until the early 20th century it had been a workhouse - a Famine-era institution for the destitute. Local historian Catherine Corless began researching...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/8/tuam-wp/gc98-tuam-the-home-and-its-reckoning.mp3 0:06 6 full Tuam: What Tuam Is Now https://qualla.com/tuam/ Today Tuam is the second-largest settlement in County Galway, a market town of around 9,000 people at the centre of north Galway. Valeo Vision Systems, the largest employer, has over a thousand people on site. The M17 motorway opened in September 2017, freeing the town from the w...

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