Lifford

Province

Lifford ( Irish: Leifear ) is a city in the north of Ireland and the capital of the County Donegal. Although the largest city in the county of Letterkenny has twelve times as many inhabitants, Lifford is the administrative center of the county.

The place

Lifford is located in the extreme east of the county, directly opposite the eleven times as large Strabane in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland is connected as its twin city, with the Lifford Lifford by the Bridge over the River Foyle. The population of Lifford in 2011 with 1,658 people found the Census, with a slight overhang of females. Throughout the Parish of Clonleigh belongs to the Lifford, the population amounted to 3,357 persons. Lifford is the seat of Donegal County Council and is in the Dáil Éireann (since 2008 as part of Donegal South West ) and others represented by Mary Coughlan as Teachta Dala.

Lifford is located in the Finn Valley in the east of the county and developed around a 16th century castle built by Manghus Ó Domhnaill around. Later, it was, until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, a British army garrison.

Traffic

From the N15 Lifford lead over Donegal Town and Ballyshannon to Sligo in the southwest and the N14 to Letterkenny in the north- west. The A5 is connected via Lifford Strabane with Derry and Omagh in Northern Ireland and in due course to the southeast over Monaghan via N2 Dublin.

Public passenger transport is almost exclusively handled as anywhere in Ireland by Bus Éireann, the Lifford connects several times daily with the Busáras in Dublin and the airport as well as with Letterkenny in the north and Ballybofey on the N15 to the west.

The city was since 1909 a breakpoint one of the two narrow gauge railways in County Donegal. Since 1960 Lifford is no longer connected to the railway network in Ireland.

Sports

The local Lifford Celtic FC was nationally known as a youth club by Shay Given.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Matthew Sweeney ( born 1952 ), writer
  • Shay Given ( b. 1976 ), football player
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