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Prior to the famine, the population of county Sligo was 187,000 people, making it one of the densest populated areas in Ireland. Sligo was a major transit port for emigration, during An Gorta Mór (The Great Famine). In 1846, 11,000 emigrated through the port. Some of the worst coffin ships on record left from Sligo port.
County Sligo (/ ˈ s l aɪ ɡ oʊ / SLY-goh, Irish: Contae Shligigh) is a county in Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region and is part of the province of Connacht. Sligo is the administrative capital and largest town in the county. Sligo County Council is the local authority for the county.
History of County Sligo, Ireland Republic of Ireland: Carlow; Cavan; Clare; Cork; Donegal; Dublin. Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown; ... Pages in category "History of County ...
Carrowkeel is a cluster of passage tombs in south County Sligo, Ireland.They were built in the 4th millennium BC, during the Neolithic era. [2] The monuments are on the Bricklieve Hills (An Bricshliabh, 'the speckled hills'), overlooking Lough Arrow, and are sometimes called the Bricklieve tombs. [3]
It is the county town of County Sligo and is in the Barony of Carbury (formerly the Gaelic túath of Cairbre Drom Cliabh). Sligo is the diocesan seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Elphin. It is in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh. County Sligo is one of the counties that make up the province of Connacht.
The collections cover the history of County Sligo from the stone age to present day. One of the most notable antiquities is a firkin of bog butter which is over 100 years old. As Sligo has long been associated with W. B. Yeats , the museum has a number of exhibits dedicated to the writer, such as a replica of his 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature ...
Classiebawn Castle is a country house built for The 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) on what was formerly a 4,000-hectare (10,000-acre) estate on the Mullaghmore Peninsula near the village of Cliffoney, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland. [1] The current castle was largely built in the late 19th century.
Drumcliff [1] or Drumcliffe (Irish: Droim Chliabh, meaning 'ridge of the baskets') is a village in County Sligo, Ireland. It is 8 km (5 mi) north of Sligo town on the N15 road on a low gravel ridge between the mountain of Ben Bulben and Drumcliff Bay. It is on the Drumcliff River, originally called the "Codnach", which drains Glencar Lake. [2 ...