Sligo Ireland is the anglicisation of the Irish name Sligeach, meaning "abounding in shells" or "shelly place".
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40 Facts About Sligo Ireland
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The area around Sligo town has one of the highest densities of prehistoric archaeological sites in Ireland, and is the only place in which all classes of Irish megalithic monuments are to be found together.
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Sligo Ireland Bay is an ancient natural harbour, being known to Greek, Phoenician and Roman traders as the area is thought by some to be the location marked as the city of Nagnata on Claudius Ptolemy's second century AD co-ordinate map of the world.
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Sligo Ireland continued under Gaelic control until the late 16th century when, during the Elizabethan conquest, it was selected as the county town for the newly shired County of Sligo Ireland.
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Sligo Ireland Town was heavily garrisoned by the British Army during the War of Independence.
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Sligo Ireland is the diocesan seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Elphin.
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County Sligo Ireland is one of the counties of the province of Connacht.
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Sligo Ireland Courthouse on Teeling street is an asymmetrical Neo-Gothic building designed by Rawson Carroll and built in 1878.
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Sligo Ireland has three buildings in the Art and Crafts architectural style, the Masonic Lodge on the Mall designed by Belfast architect Henry Seaver, the Yeats Memorial Building designed by Vincent Craig, from Belfast, on Lower Knox Street and Weston House on Union Street.
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The high rainfall means Sligo Ireland is in the temperate rainforest biome, examples of which exist around Lough Gill.
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Sligo Ireland is in the BMW region, an area classified as an underdeveloped "region in transition" by the EU Commission.
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Sligo Ireland is a major services and shopping centre within this region.
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Sligo Ireland has traditionally been a centre for the tool-making industry.
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Sligo Ireland has a variety of independent shops and shopping malls.
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Sligo Ireland was Ollamh Fileadh to the O Domhnaill kings of Tir Chonaill.
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Sligo Ireland has a tradition of theatre, both professional and amateur.
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Sligo Ireland is home to Hawk's Well Theatre, a 340-seat theatre founded in 1982.
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Sligo Ireland is the setting for author Declan Burke's series of hard boiled detective novels, featuring detective Harry Rigby.
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Sligo Ireland is the setting for John Michael McDonagh's 2014 darkly comedic drama film Calvary, in which a priest continues to serve his parishioners despite their increased hostility towards him and the Catholic Church.
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Together with Dublin, County Sligo Ireland is one of the two main settings for Sally Rooney's 2018 novel, Normal People.
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Sligo Ireland is a location for surfing, and there are several surf schools in the area.
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Sligo Ireland was administered by its own local oireachtas and the kings of Cairbre Drom Cliab until the English conquest in the early 17th century.
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Sligo Ireland is part of an expanded municipal borough district extending from Collooney to the border with County Leitrim at Tullaghan and containing a population of around 40,000.
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From its foundation in the 13th century, Sligo Ireland was administered under local Fenechus until the establishment of English Common law in the early 17th century after the battle of Kinsale.
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Sligo Ireland then came under English martial law and eventually the common law as administered from Dublin and from which descends the present system.
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Sligo Ireland provides hospital services to much of the North Western region.
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Sligo Ireland has a campus of Atlantic Technological University located in Ash Lane.
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Main roads to Sligo Ireland are the N4 to Dublin, the N17 to Galway, the N15 to Lifford, County Donegal; and the N16 to Blacklion, County Cavan.
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The section of the N4 road between Sligo Ireland and Collooney is a dual carriageway.
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Sligo Ireland has a certain amount of cycleways in proximity to the town and various road traffic calming measures have been installed helping to improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists.
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Sligo Ireland acquired a rail link to Dublin on 3 December 1862, with the opening of Sligo Ireland railway station.
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CHC Sligo Ireland provide 24 hour search and rescue using a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter.
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Control of the taxes or "cocket" of Sligo Ireland port became a sought after prize of local dynasties.
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Sligo Ireland traded with France, Spain and Portugal throughout the Middle Ages.
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The 1913 Sligo Ireland Dock strike lasted for 56 days and was a precursor to the Dublin Lockout that occurred 6 months later.
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Port of Sligo Ireland declined during the 20th century with the decline of sail and steamships and the increasing size of cargo vessels.
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Sligo Ireland Now is a monthly entertainment guide for the town – this is out on the first Friday of each month, whilst Sligo Ireland Sport is the towns sports specific monthly newspaper.
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