Qualla: Morvern https://qualla.com/morvern en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Morvern https://qualla.com/morvern Morvern: Introduction https://qualla.com/morvern/ Morvern means the sea-gap, and the name fits: a peninsula slit between lochs on three sides, bounded by Loch Sunart to the north, Loch Linnhe to the southeast, and the Sound of Mull to the southwest. Two hundred and fifty square miles of bog, hill, and forest. Three hundred and twenty people. The arithmetic is the story. Before the Highland Clearances of the nineteenth century, roughly twenty-five hundred people lived here. That is nearly an eightfold collapse, and the bare hills that strike modern visitors as wild and pristine are mostly the silent landscape of evictions remembered only in poetry and a handful of ruined townships.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/c/morvern-wp/gf5c-morvern-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Morvern: From Báetán's Twenty Houses to Cromwell's Cannon https://qualla.com/morvern/ The early-medieval Senchus fer n-Alban, a register of the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata, records that 'Baotan has twenty houses' - meaning the lands held by the Cenél Báetáin, a branch of the Cenél Loairn descended from a putative great-grandson of Loarn mac Eirc. That lineage gave...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/c/morvern-wp/gf5c-morvern-saint-kildans-and-silica.mp3 0:06 3 full Morvern: Whisky on the Sound https://qualla.com/morvern/ On Morvern's southwest coast, looking across the Sound of Mull, sits the small village of Drimnin and the Nc'nean distillery - founded in 2017 by Annabel Thomas, the first new whisky distillery on the peninsula in modern memory. It is organic, powered by renewables, and bottled i...

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