Ballyliffin () is a small village located at the north-western tip of

Inishowen Inishowen () is a peninsula in the north of County Donegal in Ireland. Inishowen is the largest peninsula on the island of Ireland. The Inishowen peninsula includes Ireland's most northerly point, Malin Head. The Grianan of Aileach, a ringfor ...

County Donegal County Donegal ( ; ga, Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconne ...

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. The surrounding landscape includes Pollan Strand, Binion Hill and Crockaughrim hill.

History

Local history of the area is covered in Charles McGlinchey's publication, ‘The Last of the Name’. It includes accounts of feuds between landlords and tenants, battles and other nuances.

Places of interest

A small island off Pollan Bay called

Glashedy Glashedy Island ( ga, Glaiséidí) is an uninhabited island approximately off Pollan strand, west of Trawbreaga Bay, and about south of Malin Head, Donegal, Ireland. Glashedy Island has an area of 22,548 m² which is equivalent to 2.25 hecta ...

is located roughly one mile off the coast. The English translation of the name is the ''Island of the Green Cloak'' derived from the layer of grass present on the top. Throughout the ages various ships have become wrecked near to the island, which provide rich fishing grounds and also contributed the rat population to the island.

Isle of Doagh The Isle of Doagh (Irish: ''Oileán na Dumhcha'', meaning "Isle of the Dune"; also known in English as Doagh Isle or Doagh Island) is a small peninsula in the north of Inishowen on the north coast of County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland. It once w ...

is also nearby, though no longer separate from the mainland.

Transport

Ballyliffin railway station Ballyliffin railway station served Ballyliffin in County Donegal, Ireland. The station opened on 1 July 1901 on the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway line from Londonderry Graving Dock to Carndonagh Carndonagh (; ) is a town on the Ini ...

opened on 1 July 1901, but finally closed on 2 December 1935. It is now a private residence.

Sport

Ballyliffin also has two 18 hole

golf course A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played. It consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a tee box, a fairway, the rough and other hazards, and a green with a cylindrical hole in the ground, known as a "cup". Th ...

s. Among

Nick Faldo Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo, (born 18 July 1957) is an English retired professional golfer and television commentator. A top player of his era, renowned for his dedication to the game, he was ranked No. 1 on the Official World Golf Ranking for ...

's favourite links courses, they were designed by course designers,

Eddie Hackett Eddie Hackett (1910–1996) was an Irish golf course architect. Eddie Hackett was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1910. As a boy he suffered from tuberculosis, the effects of which left him without the strength or stamina to play active sports. He began ...

, Pat Ruddy and Tom Craddoc. In 2006 the old course was upgraded by Nick Faldo.

Ballyliffin Golf Club Ballyliffin Golf Club () is a golf club located in Ballyliffin, County Donegal, Ireland. History The club, founded in 1947, hosted the 1998 Ladies Irish Open. It most notably hosted the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open in 2018. The course record ...

hosted the 2008 Irish Seniors Open in June 2008.http://www.myguideireland.com/ballyliffin-golf-club-(old-links-and-glashedy)#irish-seniors-open Ballyliffin Golf Club It was confirmed in July 2017 that Ballyliffin Golf Club would be the venue for the 2018 Irish Open.

People

John Toland John Toland (30 November 167011 March 1722) was an Irish people, Irish rationalist philosopher and freethought, freethinker, and occasional satirist, who wrote numerous books and pamphlets on political philosophy and philosophy of religion, whi ...

(1670–1722) philosopher and "heretic" who coined the ideals of

Pantheism Pantheism is the belief that reality, the universe and the cosmos are identical with divinity and a supreme supernatural being or entity, pointing to the universe as being an immanent creator deity still expanding and creating, which has ex ...

was born in Ballyliffin.

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