Beaufort Golf Course is situated outside of Killarney and is part of the Churchtown Estate, the centre piece of which is the Georgian house built in 1740 by Sir Roland Blennerhassett.
The estate was bought in 1860 by James MacGillycuddy Magill who turned it into one of the largest dairy farms of its time in the Southwest region of Kerry. In recent times. James’s grandson and great grandsons closed the farm in the early nineties and with the help of golf architect Arthur Spring developed Beaufort Golf Course which was officially opened in 1995. The golf course and a large part of the estate was sold to Galvin Developments in 2006 who have redeveloped it into one of the finest parkland Southwest Kerry and putting killarney golfing as a desire place to visit . Beaufort is indeed a beautiful course and provides a great challenge for any type of golfer