Qualla: Ballyliffin https://qualla.com/ballyliffin en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ballyliffin https://qualla.com/ballyliffin Ballyliffin: Introduction https://qualla.com/ballyliffin/ Out beyond Pollan Bay, where the Atlantic boils against a small island the locals once called the Isle of the Green Cloak, the wind that comes off the water has shaped a stretch of links land that golfers travel oceans to play. Ballyliffin is a small village clinging to the north-western corner of Inishowen, with maybe three hundred residents in winter and several thousand more golfers in summer. The name in Irish is Baile Lifin. The hills behind it are called Binion and Crockaughrim. Out in the bay, ships once wrecked on Glashedy Island with such regularity that they delivered a thriving population of rats to its grassy crown, along with rich fishing grounds for the mainland.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/ballyliffin-wp/gcfd-ballyliffin-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballyliffin: Two Courses, One View https://qualla.com/ballyliffin/ Ballyliffin Golf Club has two championship eighteen-hole links courses. The Old Links was the original, laid out across the sand dunes by some combination of nature, sheep, and the hands of locals before designers Eddie Hackett, Pat Ruddy, and Tom Craddock formalised what was alr...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/ballyliffin-wp/gcfd-ballyliffin-two-courses-one-view.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballyliffin: Glashedy, the Wreckers' Rock https://qualla.com/ballyliffin/ Glashedy Island sits about a mile off the coast in Pollan Bay. The Irish name translates roughly as Island of the Green Cloak, a description anyone who has stood on the beach at sunset will recognise: the grassy top of the rock catches late light like a folded cape thrown over an...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/ballyliffin-wp/gcfd-ballyliffin-glashedy-the-wreckers-rock.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballyliffin: A Train That Never Quite Made It https://qualla.com/ballyliffin/ Ballyliffin railway station opened on 1 July 1901, one of the small narrow-gauge stations of the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway. It closed on 2 December 1935, the line victim to the same forces that closed rural railways across Ireland in the inter-war years: roads, cars, d...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/ballyliffin-wp/gcfd-ballyliffin-a-train-that-never-quite-made-it.mp3 0:06 4 full Ballyliffin: John Toland and the Trouble with Pantheism https://qualla.com/ballyliffin/ Ballyliffin's most famous historical resident was born here in 1670 and spent most of his life in trouble for his ideas. John Toland was a philosopher whose 1696 book Christianity Not Mysterious was burned by the public hangman in Dublin on orders of the Irish parliament. He coin...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/ballyliffin-wp/gcfd-ballyliffin-john-toland-and-the-trouble-with-pantheism.mp3 0:06 5 full Ballyliffin: Where the Doagh Channel Used to Run https://qualla.com/ballyliffin/ Just east of Ballyliffin lies the Isle of Doagh, which is no longer an isle. The narrow tidal channel that separated it from the mainland silted up over the centuries, and what was once an island is now a peninsula reachable on foot at any tide. Carrickabraghy Castle stands at it...

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