Qualla: Classiebawn Castle https://qualla.com/classiebawn-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:20 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/classiebawn-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Classiebawn Castle https://qualla.com/classiebawn-castle Classiebawn Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/classiebawn-castle/ Photo credit P. Hughes, CC BY 4.0. The castle sits on the Mullaghmore Peninsula like a sentinel, its conical turret and yellow-brown sandstone walls catching the Atlantic light. Classiebawn is beautiful and remote, but it is not a place anyone can visit without thinking of what happened in the waters just offshore. On 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten -- the last Viceroy of India, a war hero, and uncle to Prince Philip -- was killed when the Provisional IRA detonated a bomb hidden aboard his fishing boat, Shadow V. Two of his family members and a local teenager also died. The castle, the peninsula, the quiet harbor: all became part of one of the most devastating acts of violence in the Troubles.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/classiebawn-castle-wp/gc9v-classiebawn-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Classiebawn Castle: Confiscation and Construction https://qualla.com/classiebawn-castle/ Photo credit Kattanias, CC BY-SA 4.0. The land beneath Classiebawn carries its own layered history of dispossession. It once belonged to the O'Connor Sligo family, but was confiscated by the English Parliament after the Irish Rebellion of 1641 to compensate those who had suppressed it. Around 10,000 acres were grante...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/classiebawn-castle-wp/gc9v-classiebawn-castle-confiscation-and-construction.mp3 0:06 2 full Classiebawn Castle: A Summer Retreat https://qualla.com/classiebawn-castle/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Ownership passed through a line of English aristocrats. When William Cowper-Temple died childless in 1888, the estate went to his nephew Evelyn Ashley, son of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. Ashley's son Wilfrid inherited next, and he spent summers at Classiebawn with his daughters ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/classiebawn-castle-wp/gc9v-classiebawn-castle-a-summer-retreat.mp3 0:06 3 full Classiebawn Castle: The Bombing https://qualla.com/classiebawn-castle/ Photo credit Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 4.0. On that August morning in 1979, Mountbatten, then 79 years old, took his family out on Shadow V from the Mullaghmore harbor. The IRA had planted a radio-controlled bomb on the boat the night before. The explosion killed Mountbatten, his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas Knatchbull, t...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/classiebawn-castle-wp/gc9v-classiebawn-castle-the-bombing.mp3 0:06 4 full Classiebawn Castle: Reconciliation and Solitude https://qualla.com/classiebawn-castle/ Photo credit Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1991, businessman Hugh Tunney from County Tyrone acquired Classiebawn and its surrounding 3,000 acres. The castle today is privately owned and not open to the public. In 2015, Prince Charles visited Mullaghmore -- a gesture widely seen as an act of reconciliation. He met survi...

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