County Sligo
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| County Sligo Contae Shligigh | ||
| Image:Sligococo.png | ||
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| Province: | Connacht | |
| County Town: | Sligo | |
| Code: | SO | |
| Area: | 1,837 km² | |
| Population (2006) | 60,894[1] | |
| Website: www.sligococo.ie | ||
County Sligo (Irish: Contae Shligigh; lit. Shelly River) is a county in the province of Connacht in the west of the Republic of Ireland.
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[edit] Location
Sligo is bordered to the west by Mayo, to the south by Roscommon, and the east by Leitrim.
[edit] Music tradition
County Sligo has a long history of traditional music. The south of the county is particularly noted with such musical luminaries as James Morrison, Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoran, the band Dervish and tin-whistle player Carmel Gunning. The county has many traditional music festivals and one of the most well known is the Queen Maeve International Summer School, a traditional Irish Music summer school of music and dance which is held annually in August in Sligo Town. On the more contemporary music scene there are Westlife, Tabby Callaghan and The Conway Sisters who are from Sligo. Strandhill, about 9km west of Sligo, hosts the Strandhill Guitar Festival[1] each year, featuring a wide variety of guitar music and musicians.
[edit] Cultural riches/Literary inspiration
The megalithic cemetery of Carrowmore is located in County Sligo. It forms part of a huge complex of Stone Age remains connecting Carrowkeel in South Sligo to the Ox Mountains, to the Cuil Irra Peninsula, where Queen Maeve's tomb dominates the skyline from the crest of Knocknarea Mountain. The poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) spent much of his childhood in northern Sligo and the county's landscapes (particularly the Isle of Innisfree, in Lough Gill) were the inspiration for much of his poetry. Yeats said, "the place that has really influenced my life most is Sligo."
[edit] Towns and villages in County Sligo
The county town is Sligo (population: 17,892 [2]), which is home to the Institute of Technology, Sligo.
- Achonry, Aclare
- Ballaghnatrillick, Ballinafad, Ballintogher, Ballymote, Ballysadare, Banada, Beltra
- Carney, Castlebaldwin, Cliffony, Cloonacool
- Collooney, Coolaney,
- Dromore West, Drumcliffe
- Easky
- Geevagh, Grange, Gurteen/Gorteen
- Iniscrone
- Kilglass, Keash
- Monasteraden, Mullaghmore
- Riverstown, Rosses Point
- Skreen, Strandhill
- Tourlestrane, Tubbercurry
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Collection of Sligo Landscape Photographs
- Sligo County Council
- Map of Sligo
- Sligoheritage.com
- SligoZone
- County Sligo travel guide from Wikitravel
[edit] References
- ^ Population of each Province, County and City, 2006. CSO Ireland, Principal Statistics. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
- ^ Report 06. Population and area of each Province, County, City, urban area, rural area and Electoral Division, 2002 and 2006. CSO, Ireland, Volume 1 - Population classified by Area. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
Counties of Ireland | |
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| Connacht | Galway (Galway City) · Leitrim · Mayo · Roscommon · Sligo |
| Munster | Clare · Cork (Cork City) · Kerry · Limerick (Limerick City) · Tipperary (North Tipperary • South Tipperary) · Waterford (Waterford City) |
| Leinster | |
| Ulster | |
| Italics denote non-administrative counties · (Parentheses) denote eponymous cities or non-traditional counties | |
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