Qualla: Uggool Beach https://qualla.com/uggool-beach 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: Uggool Beach https://qualla.com/uggool-beach Uggool Beach: Introduction https://qualla.com/uggool-beach/ Uggool Beach is, by most accounts, one of the finest stretches of sand in Ireland - a wide arc at the mouth of Killary Harbour, sheltered by Silver Strand to the north and overshadowed by the steep flank of Mweelrea to the east. It is also, by official designation of an Irish Ombudsman, the subject of one of the most intractable disputes the office has ever handled. For more than thirty years, fences have stood between the public road and the foreshore, and the question of who is entitled to walk to the water has occupied courts, tribunals, parliamentary committees, and a steady rotation of Mayo County Council planners. The fences are still there.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/c/uggool-beach-wp/gc8c-uggool-beach-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Uggool Beach: Where the Beach Sits https://qualla.com/uggool-beach/ Uggool is on the County Mayo coast south of Louisburgh, where the land swings down toward the long fjord of Killary Harbour - Ireland's only true glacial fjord, and the border between Mayo and Galway. Mweelrea rises behind the beach to 814 metres, the highest peak in Connacht, it...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/c/uggool-beach-wp/gc8c-uggool-beach-where-the-beach-sits.mp3 0:06 2 full Uggool Beach: The Fence https://qualla.com/uggool-beach/ In 1989, fencing went up across the approaches to Uggool Beach. The official explanation was protection of agricultural land. The Ombudsman, examining the case in 1999, concluded otherwise: the fencing extended onto the foreshore and the beach itself, well beyond anything needed ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/c/uggool-beach-wp/gc8c-uggool-beach-the-fence.mp3 0:06 3 full Uggool Beach: An Intractable Question https://qualla.com/uggool-beach/ In September 2013, Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly told an Oireachtas committee that the Uggool case was one of the most intractable issues her office had ever dealt with. Journalist Fintan O'Toole has returned to it repeatedly in the Irish Times, framing it as a small but vivid case st...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/c/uggool-beach-wp/gc8c-uggool-beach-an-intractable-question.mp3 0:06 4 full Uggool Beach: Looking Down from Mweelrea https://qualla.com/uggool-beach/ There is one way to see Uggool clearly without negotiating the fences. From the summit ridge of Mweelrea, the beach appears far below as a near-perfect crescent, white sand against the deep blue of the bay mouth, with the cliffs of Killary Harbour curving south and the open Atlan...

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