Ballylickey
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Ballylickey or Ballylicky is a village on the N71
N71 road (Ireland)
-Road standard:The road is mostly relatively poor single carriageway, with better sections towards the Cork end of the route. There are wide sections with climbing/passing lanes, including a very rare configuration with a passing lane on both sides, and a dual carriageway section approaching...

 national secondary road
National secondary road
A national secondary road is a category of road in Ireland. These roads form an important part of the national route network, but are secondary to the main arterial routes which are classified as national primary roads. National secondary roads are designated with route numbers higher than those...

 near Bantry
Bantry
Bantry is a town on the coast of County Cork, Ireland. It lies on the N71 national secondary road at the head of Bantry Bay, a deep-water gulf extending for 30 km to the west...

, County Cork
County Cork
County Cork is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. It is named after the city of Cork . Cork County Council is the local authority for the county...

, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

. The River Ovane flows into Bantry Bay
Bantry Bay
Bantry Bay is a bay located in County Cork, southwest Ireland. The bay runs approximately from northeast to southwest into the Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately 3-to-4 km wide at the head and wide at the entrance....

 at Ballylickey.

Tourism

  • The area is notable for the Seaview Hotel.
  • There is a caravan park at Eagle Point
    Eagle Point
    Eagle Point may refer to:* Eagle Point, Oregon* Eagle Point, Wisconsin* Eagle Point, Pennsylvania-See also:* Eagle Point Park, Dubuque, Iowa* Eagle Point Park, Pasco County Florida...

  • The area is renowned for the Ballylickey Manor House Hotel. Now a luxury guest house owned by the Graves family for generations.

People

  • Philip Graves
    Philip Graves
    Philip Perceval Graves was an Irish journalist and writer. While working as a foreign correspondent of The Times in Constantinople, he exposed The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as an antisemitic plagiarism, fraud, and hoax.-Life:Graves, eldest son of the writer Alfred Perceval Graves , was born...

    , journalist and exposer of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
    The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
    The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a fraudulent, antisemitic text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for achieving global domination. It was first published in Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the twentieth century...

    as a hoax.
  • Ellen Hutchins
    Ellen Hutchins
    Ellen Hutchins was an early Irish botanist.Hutchins was from Ardnagashel, Ballylickey, where her family had a small estate at the head of Bantry Bay, County Cork. Her father was a magistrate and died when she was two years old, leaving a wife and six children. She moved to Dublin and was looked...

    , botanist

See also

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