Qualla: Lifford https://qualla.com/lifford 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: Lifford https://qualla.com/lifford Lifford: Introduction https://qualla.com/lifford/ There is a slight Donegal grievance that needs settling first: Lifford is the county town. Letterkenny is bigger, busier, and increasingly the de facto capital of Donegal, but on paper the county seat is here - across the Lifford Bridge from Strabane, at the spot where the Finn and the Mourne meet to make the Foyle. The original Irish name, Leith Bhearr, means 'grey water' - a sober description of the river that defines the town. From this small place on the wrong side of an international border, an O'Donnell prince built a castle in 1527; a courthouse went up in 1746; and a great-great-great-grandmother of a U.S. president was born in 1634. Lifford packs a lot of history into eleven hundred residents.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/x/lifford-wp/gcdx-lifford-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lifford: Manus O'Donnell's Summer https://qualla.com/lifford/ On a Wednesday after St. Brendan's Day - the saint's feast falls on 16 May - in 1527, Manus Ó Domhnaill began building the castle of Leithbher. He finished the masonry and woodwork by the end of that same summer, even though the O'Neills of Tír Eoghain were at war with him. That ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/x/lifford-wp/gcdx-lifford-manus-odonnells-summer.mp3 0:06 2 full Lifford: The Diamond and the Courthouse https://qualla.com/lifford/ Lifford's centre is The Diamond - an Ulster Plantation pattern of crossroads and open ground that you'll see repeated in Donegal Town and Derry. The handsome Lifford Courthouse, built in 1746 to designs by Michael Priestley of Dublin, anchors The Diamond and is now a heritage cen...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/x/lifford-wp/gcdx-lifford-the-diamond-and-the-courthouse.mp3 0:06 3 full Lifford: Cavanacor and President Polk https://qualla.com/lifford/ Three miles outside Lifford, just off the N14, sits Cavanacor House - one of those quiet seventeenth-century buildings whose unassuming exterior conceals a strange connection. Magdelene Tasker was born there in 1634. She would marry Captain Robert Bruce Pollock, emigrate to the U...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/x/lifford-wp/gcdx-lifford-cavanacor-and-president-polk.mp3 0:06 4 full Lifford: Gateway to Donegal https://qualla.com/lifford/ Drive from Dublin or Belfast and Lifford is the first town in Donegal you reach. The N2 from Dublin and the A5 from Tyrone funnel into one place - cross the Lifford Bridge and you are in the Republic. The town has long called itself 'the Gateway to Donegal,' and the description s...

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