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	Sligo Borough Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sligo Borough Council is the local authority of Sligo which is the largest urban settlement between the cities of Derry to its North and Galway to its South.
		Sligo town is served by a range of infrastructure, it is located on the national primary route (N4), the main Dublin road.
		County Sligo is dominated by a mountainous landscape, with Sligo town surrounded by the Ox mountain range to the south, Knockrea to the west, Keelogboy, Leenan and Benbo mountains to the east and range including Benbulben and Kings Mountain to the north and east.
	www.sligoborough.ie /asp/AboutUs/AboutSligo.asp (1549 words)

	Sligo Town
		Sligo is the main city in the Northwest of Ireland and the 12th largest overall.
		Like most Irish towns, the streets in the center of town are very narrow and were never designed for the high demands of today's automobile traffic.
		Sligo Abbey (the Dominican Friary of Sligo) was founded in 1253 by Maurice FitzGerald, Baron of Offaly.
	www.kimnewport.com /images/sligo/sligotown.htm (307 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sligo, town, Ireland (British And Irish Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		17,964), county seat of Sligo, N Republic of Ireland, at the mouth of the Garavogue River on Sligo Bay.
		Sligo also imports coal, iron, and timber; it exports cattle.
		The abbey burned in 1414, was rebuilt, and again burned in 1641 when the town was sacked by the parliamentarians.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sligo.html (232 words)

	Sligo County Heritage and Genealogy Society
		County Sligo is one of the most beautiful and often praised counties in Ireland.
		Sligo is world renowned for its breath-taking mountain views, wealth of secluded lakes and abundance of unpolluted coastal beaches.
		Sligo was one of the principal emigration ports on the Western seaboard.
	www.sligoroots.com /history.html (1709 words)

	Sligo Town - 1 2 Travel Ireland Travel Information Guide
		Sligo is a typical Irish market town bustling with life, boasting a collection of traditional old pubs, a number of Neolithic sites nearby and is famed for its connections with the poet W.B. Yeats.
		The town’s one remnant of medieval times is the ruins of the Dominican Friary, known as Sligo Abbey founded in 1252.
		The town’s cultural attractions; the Sligo County Museum, the Model Arts and Niland Gallery and Sligo Art Gallery are dominated by the Yeats family who were from the county.
	www.12travel.com /ie/North_West/Sligo.html (365 words)

	Total Ireland - Sligo
		In the west of the county the Ox mountains form a background to the coastal plain, while north of Sligo town the landscape is dominated by steep-sided and flat-topped limestone hills.
		Sligo is a county in the Connacht province of Ireland, on the Atlantic Ocean.
		Sligo's history dates from the mid-13th century with construction of a castle and the 13th-century Sligo Abbey.
	totalireland.com /sligo (474 words)

	ipedia.com: County Sligo Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sligo (Sligeach in Irish) is a county in the province of Connacht in the west of Ireland.
		Yeats (1865-1939) spent much of his childhood in northern Sligo and the county's landscapes (particularly the Isle of Inisfree, in Lough Gill) were the inspiration for much of his poetry.
		Sligo Town (population: 19,735) is home to the Institute of Technology, Sligo.
	www.ipedia.com /county_sligo.html (149 words)

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		Sligo is home to eircom league club Sligo Rovers FC, who play their home games on Saturday nights in the showgrounds.
		The Sligo / Leitrim Junior Soccer League is one of the strongest junior leagues in the country.
		Sligo has many GAA clubs with the county team playing its football and hurling games at Markievicz Park.
	community.mobhaile.ie /national/lookwest/Sligo/ThemePages/Main_SportLeisureEnt.aspx (341 words)

	NTU Info Centre: Sligo Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sligo Town or Sligo is the county town of County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland.
		Sligo is not a city although their is a campaign and it is occasionally mistakenly and purposely promoted as a city - the town has is a borough and has a charter and mayor.
		Sligo’s name - ‘the Place of Shells’ comes from the fact that there was an abundance of shellfish found at the river and estuary - the river was also called the Sligeach (now called the Garavogue River).
	www.nowtryus.com /article:Sligo_Town (224 words)

	Sligo Hotels - Sligo Ireland Tourism - Sligo Bed & Breakfast (B&B) and Accommodation - SligoTourist.com
		Today, Sligo is known to many as Yeats' County because of the writer W.B. Yeats' long association with the county.
		County Sligo is bordered by counties Leitrim, Mayo and Roscommon.
		The Clarion Hotel Sligo, Sligo, Ireland, is a 4 star hotel located in Sligo town on the Enniskillen / Belfast approach, gateway to the northwest of the country.
	www.sligotourist.com (574 words)

	The unofficial tourist guide to Sligo Town
		Sligo Town, the largest town in the North West of Ireland, with a population of over 20,000 people, stands at the mouth of the Garavogue River between Lough Gill and the mighty Atlantic Ocean.
		To the East of the town is the very scenic Lough Gill, one of Sligo's best known beauty spots, immortalised by W.B. Yeats (pictured left) in many of his work's.
		To the South of Sligo Town lie the Ox Mountains and Knocknarea Mountain with Queen Mauve's Cairn, dominates the skyline to the West.
	www.sligotown.net (198 words)

	County Sligo Heritage and Genealogy Centre
		County Sligo is situated on the West coast of Ireland and is within the province of Connaught.
		Sligo is widely regarded as one of Ireland's most beautiful counties and it's breathtaking mountain views, crystal clear lakes and long sandy beaches are famous the world over.
		The chief towns in County Sligo are Sligo, Tubbercurry and Ballymote.
	www.irishroots.net /Sligo.htm (505 words)

	Sligo Ireland tourism - hotels, bed and breakfast,car rentals Sligo, county maps...
		The lakes of Sligo, with their still waters and wooded islands, are truly spectacular, and form a striking contrast to the county's rugged uplands.
		Sligo is the largest town in the north-west, with a heritage going back 6,000 years.
		Sligo town makes a good base for a range of activities - horse riding, golfing, walking, cycling, fishing and water sports are all very popular.
	www.countysligo.com (261 words)

	DSFA » Welfare Topics » Decentralisation » Sligo Town, Co. Sligo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sligo is a coastal county, it has a wealth of historical, cultural and scenic value with a reputation for cultural and artistic attraction.
		Geographically, Sligo is located in a picturesque setting with many areas of natural beauty ranging from mountains, lakes to a coastline of 110 miles fronting the Atlantic Ocean, which offers miles of safe beaches within easy reach of the town.
		Sligo is famed for its scenery, with its beauty recorded in the works of WB Yeats.
	www.welfare.ie /topics/decentralisation/sligo.html (2451 words)

	The unofficial tourist guide to Sligo Town - Hazelwood House and Sculpture Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hazelwood Nature Trail, a few miles from Sligo Town, is well known locally as a natural beauty spot, consisting of a large wooded area with a number of carved wooden sculptures, picnic area's and lakeside views.
		Owen went on to become High Sheriff of County Sligo in 1723 and again in 1745 and High Sheriff of County Leitrim in 1724, he died in 1755 at the age of 79.
		Three years after the extension of the Midland Great Western Railway from Longford to Sligo was completed in 1862, John Arthur Wynne died leaving his son Owen to become one of the promoters and one of the first directors of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway which ran from Sligo to Enniskillen.
	www.sligotown.net /index.php/87 (1414 words)

	Hotel Listings & Destination Guide for Europe & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With a population of 18,000, SLIGO is, after Derry, the biggest town in the northwest of Ireland and a focal point for the surrounding area.
		The first recorded mention of Sligo dates from 807 AD, when the town was sacked by the Vikings, and by the thirteenth century it had become the gateway between Connacht and Ulster, with a castle (since destroyed) on what is now Castle Street.
		The town suffered during the Great Famine, when its population fell by a third through death and emigration, but by the end of the nineteenth century things had picked up to the extent that it was described in guidebooks as "a progressive and busy centre".
	www.eztrip.com /dg_viewLocation_locationId-30769.html (641 words)

	Sligo Web, Hotels in Sligo town and county
		Situated one mile south of Sligo on the Dublin Road, the Sligo Park Hotel is set on seven acres of quiet parkland and landscaped gardens.
		The Sligo Park Hotel is easily accessible by air (from Dublin, Knock, Galway, Sligo and Shannon) and by rail and road from all cities in Ireland.
		The Southern Hotel & Leisure Centre is situated in the heart of Sligo Town adjacent to the railway and bus stations.
	homepage.eircom.net /~afinan/tourism/hotels.html (710 words)

	Sligo Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sligo town is situated at the mouth of the Garavogue river, which flows from Lough Gill.
		Sligo is the ideal base for touring North West Ireland.
		Sligo Town has several successful and long established manufacturing plants of both local and overseas origins and has Engineering and Toolmaking firms of International repute.
	www.sligozone.net /town.htm (213 words)

	SligoZone.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		County Sligo, immortalised by W.B. Yeats, is situated on the North West
		County Sligo and its neighbouring counties in North Connacht have some of the most scenic locations in Western Europe.
		I have always been smitten not only by the scenic charms of North Connacht but also by the people, history and especially the enchanting atmosphere.
	www.sligozone.net (106 words)

	Sligo Weekender: Sligo town will become a dump (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is only based on his report that the people of Sligo Town will know for sure if our Local Government is to continue or if we will have a commissioner appointed by Mr Dempsey, to run Sligo Town until 2004 when there will be the local elections once again.
		We are also having a gun put to our heads and told that there is no way out of this situation and to take it or leave or leave it or the next stop will be privatisation with no wavers.
		We will not have to look for a dump outside the town as the town itself will become the dump and the fault will be with local and national government agencies who are compelling us to pay an Irish version of the Poll Tax.
	www.sligoweekender.ie /news/story.asp?j=7850 (483 words)

	The Sligo News, News from Sligo town and county
		The Sligo News, News from Sligo town and county
		A new tourist service was launched this week, Discover Sligo Tours provide a door to door service of the "land of hearts desire", with poetry, history, legends, traditional music, and plenty of time to take in the wonder of Sligo, a county just waiting to be descovered.
		Sligo Rovers New Manager Jim McNally is looking for his assistant, and David Pugh, one of Sligo's best known soccer personalities is tipped to fill this position.
	homepage.eircom.net /~afinan/news/issue26.html (589 words)

	Get to know Sligo with books from The BOOK NEST Bookshop - Ireland
		Situated in one of the most scenic areas of County Sligo on the western shores of Lough Arrow, the Carrowkeel/Keshcorran megalithic complex is the most impressively located collection of passage tombs in Ireland.
		This is the story of six friends from Sligo town who set out on an adventure with a group of people who shared their dreams.
		It had taken immense courage on the part of Sophia and her family in County Sligo to bring the murky, hidden world of family child abuse to the public gaze.
	www.booknest.ie (557 words)

	Sligo Town, Ireland Cheap Hotels Motels - hotel and motel rooms and reservations available in Sligo Town, Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sligo Town, Ireland is a great place to stay in a hotel or rent a car.
		Whether you're traveling for a family vacation or a corporate business trip our Sligo Town, Ireland travel information will help you find a hotel that matches your needs and offers you the lowest rates available on the internet.
		Click on a hotel or motel name from the list of hotels and motels available in Sligo Town, Ireland to find hotel and motel reservations that are available at this location.
	www.eztrip.com /Sligo-Town/SLIGO-TOWN_IE_INTL.html (391 words)

	Sligo, Ireland, From Ireland web site, ©Jane Lyons
		People said that they came from A, B, or C, possibly in such and such a county in Ireland, and the thing is, that today, some people don't know if their ancestors were talking about the Civil Parish that they came from or the Religious parish or Barony or which division.
		Some cover only Sligo, while others take in parts of the surrounding counties or are districts whose main town is in another county and which covers only part of Co. Sligo.
		The centre for any registration district was a town in a county and the area taken in by the Poor Law Union related to that town.
	www.from-ireland.net /contents/sligoconts.htm (2101 words)

	Sligo Ireland - IRISH GUIDE LIVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With one of the greatest concentration of megalithic monuments in Ireland, Sligo boasts a landscape as rich in lore as it is in beauty.
		Yeats visited Sligo frequently - periods which led to the inspiration of the poet in many of his future works, drawing spiritually from the county's scenic landscape and sense of place.
		The Sligo County Museum and Library houses the Sligo Branch Library, Museum and Niland Gallery.
	www.sligolive.com /_general/SligoLive.com.asp (622 words)

	Sligo Weekender: Sligo parking costs are set to escalate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It means the days of free parking in the town centre or within a wide vicinity of it are now well and truly dead.
		Sligo may still be relatively cheap for parking in comparison to cities like Dublin or Galway but it is becoming a much more significant cost for motorists.
		For someone working in town five days a week, parking will cost them E12.50 a week, or somewhere in the region of E600 a year (depending on the amount of holidays or other days taken off work).
	www.sligoweekender.ie /news/story.asp?j=25102 (562 words)

	Jennings O'Donovan Consulting Engineers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The area of Carrowmore, about 4.5km west of Sligo Town, once contained what was arguably the largest assemblage of megalithic tombs Europe.
		Lissadell House is the large and austere Grecian revival home of the Gore-Both family, beautifully situated amidst woods and glades on the North shore of Sligo Bay and immortalised by William Butler Yeats in his poem "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markievicz".
		Constance Markievicz was the most famous resident of the house because of her involvement in the Dublin Lockout of 1913, and the rebellion of 1916 for which she imprisoned and later reprieved from a death sentence.
	www.jod.ie /sligo.html (349 words)

	RTE News - Eight still held over Sligo town shooting
		Gardaí investigating the fatal shooting of a man in Sligo town are continuing to question eight people in connection with the incident.
		Fourteen people were arrested in Sligo and had their detention for questioning extended for another 24 hours.
		Hughie McGinley was shot in the head on 28 April as he sat in a van at Grattan Street in Sligo town.
	www.rte.ie /news/2005/0609/mcginleyh.html (137 words)

	Sligo - the unheralded County of Ireland
		County Sligo in north west of Ireland, with a quiet and unheralded beauty of its own, is where 50% of my roots are - this was my father's county.
		The coastal drive from Sligo town into Donegal is magnificent and from the shore we can see a connection with North America.
		Sligo is a spot of hidden and little known beauty and Lough Gill on the Leitrim border, as well as the waterfalls of Glencar, are well worth a visit to those touring the area.
	www.moytura.com /sligo.htm (2081 words)

	eircom net Ireland-International / Irish news headlines from leading Irish newspapers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The plan is for a 2.5km road to run west of Sligo town, linking Caltragh at the new Inner Relief Road to the south of the town with the Strandhill Road.
		As the first public park for the town, it includes three football pitches, a basketball court a children's playground and a 'Sli na Slainte' walking route.
		Sligo Borough Council claims the new road is critical to facilitating the continuing growth of Sligo by providing access to western areas of the town, including residential, business and mixed-use zoned lands.
	home.eircom.net /content/unison/national/5343956?view=Eircomnet (280 words)

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