Sligo
Sligo is the principal town in County Sligo in Northwest Ireland & Lakelands. In 2022 it had a population of 21,000, with the service sector the main employer. Wikivoyage
Population 19,199 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Ireland
Getting there
Remembered in this browser only, with the last few you used.
Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide-
Sligo Abbey Monastery · 940 m - Lady Eireann Memorial · 720 m
- St. John's Cathedral Memorial · 500 m
- Yeats Memorial Building Viewpoint · 780 m
- Ambrosio and Bernardo O'Higgins Memorial · 840 m
- WB yeats Attraction · 860 m
- Famine Memorial Monument · 860 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Somewhere to run
Getting around
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