County Sligo
Sligeach
- IrishSligeach
- ProvinceConnacht
- County townSligo
- Local governmentSligo County Council
- Area1,836 km²
- Population70,198 (2022)
- Highest pointTruskmore, 647 m
Four in five
In 1900, 80.1 per cent of holdings in Sligo were under thirty acres. Four farms in five.
Nine years earlier the Congested Districts Board had valued Sligo's congested districts at one pound five shillings and fivepence a head. That was under the line of thirty shillings, and Sligo was scheduled.
A farm that small went to one child. The others had to find their own way.
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Carrowmore
The largest and oldest collection of Neolithic tombs in Ireland. More than thirty monuments survive, some almost six thousand years old.
Knocknarea, with Queen Maeve's cairn on top, and Ben Bulben both stand over it.
It is part of the Passage Tomb Landscape of Sligo, on the State's tentative list for World Heritage status.
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Constance Markievicz
Born in London in 1868, the eldest child of Sir Henry Gore Booth of Lissadell, where she was brought up.
In 1916 she was second in command of a Citizen Army troop at St Stephen's Green. She was sentenced to death, commuted on account of her sex.
In 1918 she was elected for Dublin St Patrick's, the first woman elected to the British parliament. Like every Sinn Féin member she did not take the seat. In 1919 she became minister for labour in the first Dáil.
She died in a public ward in Dublin in 1927, having declared herself a pauper.
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In the decade after the Famine Sligo sent out a smaller share of its people than almost anywhere in Ireland. A passage cost money, and Sligo did not have it.