Cloughaneely Golf Club set to tee off a new era with clubhouse revamp

Planning permission has been granted for a new clubhouse at Cloughaneely Golf Club.

Donegal County Council have given conditional planning permission to the proposed works at the club, located at Ballyconnell, Falcarragh.

A planning application in the name of Vincent Collum on behalf of Cumann Gailf Chloich Cheann Fhaola sought permission for the removal of the existing temporary buildings and the erection of a new clubhouse.

The proposed new clubhouse will contain a members bar, a kitchen, a reception area, changing facilities, toilets, office and store.

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The application also provides for a waste water treatment system and other associated site development works.

The local authority has granted permission, subject to nine conditions.

They include that the applicant pay €10,000 to the planning authority as a special contribution in respect of the resurfacing of the access road from the county road junction to the development site.

The applicant is also to pay a contribution of €902.54 in respect of public infrastructure and facilities benefiting development in the area.

The Cloughaneely Golf Club was officially opened in 1997 and is located on the Ballyconnell Estate, where the Olphert family lived for centuries.

In later years it was known as the grounds of Coláiste Bhríde and Holy Cross College before Udáras na Gaeltachta purchased the estate from the Diocese of Raphoe in 1988.