Qualla: Tulsk https://qualla.com/tulsk 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/d/1/tulsk-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tulsk https://qualla.com/tulsk Tulsk: Introduction https://qualla.com/tulsk/ Photo credit Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Christian monks who mapped the Irish countryside drew a careful note in their margins beside one particular cave near Tulsk. Oweynagat, the Cave of the Cats - or in Irish tradition, the entrance to the Otherworld. The monks called it Hell. Modern Irish folksinger Christy Moore wrote that Tulsk itself was like hell, on the title track of his Welcome to the Cabaret album, after a gig there ended in a brawl. The villagers prefer the older association. Tulsk sits on the edge of Rathcroghan - Cruachan - the Iron Age royal complex where Queen Medb launched the Cattle Raid of Cooley, where the kings of Connacht were inaugurated, and where 60 National Monuments still mark the ground where Irish kingship was made.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/1/tulsk-wp/gcd1-tulsk-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tulsk: Where the Kings Were Made https://qualla.com/tulsk/ Photo credit Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cruachan was a working royal seat for at least a thousand years - from the Iron Age to the Norman invasion. The Tain Bo Cuailnge, Ireland's great epic, opens here with Queen Medb of Connacht and her husband Ailill arguing in bed over whose herd is finer. Medb sends raiders into U...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/1/tulsk-wp/gcd1-tulsk-where-the-kings-were-made.mp3 0:06 2 full Tulsk: Bingham's Garrison https://qualla.com/tulsk/ Photo credit Aiden Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0. Tulsk village grew up around a ringfort that has revealed extraordinary layers of history. Excavations between 2003 and 2009 found Mesolithic remains beneath everything - hunter-gatherer activity from before the time of Irish farming. Above that, the ringfort. Above the ringfort,...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/1/tulsk-wp/gcd1-tulsk-binghams-garrison.mp3 0:06 3 full Tulsk: May Day at Rathcroghan https://qualla.com/tulsk/ Photo credit User:Deadstar, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1779 the artist Gabriel Beranger travelled Ireland to paint its antiquities for the Hibernian Antiquarian Society. He passed through Tulsk on May Day and recorded a scene 'peculiar to this locality.' The local people drove all their black cattle from the surrounding plains to ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/1/tulsk-wp/gcd1-tulsk-may-day-at-rathcroghan.mp3 0:06 4 full Tulsk: Famine and Departure https://qualla.com/tulsk/ Photo credit Sean an Scuab 13:10, 26 October 2007 (UTC), CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1841 Tulsk parish had 11,101 people. Ten years later it had 6,955. By 1861 it was 5,539. By 1903, when John Redmond came to address a vast outdoor 'National Meeting' for Home Rule, the population had dropped to 3,275. The 1837 description in Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictio...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/1/tulsk-wp/gcd1-tulsk-famine-and-departure.mp3 0:06 5 full Tulsk: The Black and Tans https://qualla.com/tulsk/ Photo credit Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 14 November 1920, during the War of Independence, the Tulsk shopkeeper George Kelly drove his truck to Roscommon town to collect goods. He was arrested at Roscommon and his vehicle taken. That night the same truck appeared at Four Mile House in the possession of RIC officers a...

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