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Currently known as a centre for traditional Irish music, County Sligo can be found on the western coast of Ireland, bounded by the sea and counties Mayo, Roscommon and Leitrim.
The name Sligo translates to ‘place of shells’ and…

Yeats Memorial Building

William Butler Yeats, the national poet of Ireland, lived from 1865 to 1939. A red brick building in Sligo Town memorializes him and celebrates his life and work. Located…

Northwest Ireland’s largest town is situated in the middle of Yeats Country, where it has miraculously retained all the rural charm of the original small village, even as it has grown in leaps and bounds both physically and economically.

More than 200 megalithic monuments once stood on this site, located to the west of Sligo Town. Both man and nature have destroyed many of the passage tombs and dolmens over the years, but today there are still about…

Sir Robert Gore-Booth built this unique and beautiful neoclassical mansion in the 1830s. Fashioned from Ballisodore limestone, and located 7km to the northwest of Sligo just off the N4, Lissadell House had remained a family homestead until 2003, when…

Parkes Castle sits proudly on the shoreline of Lough Gill at Five Mile Burren, just outside the town of Dromahair in County Leitrim, and only a few miles from Sligo town.
The splendour of this 17th century castle…

The romantic Glencar Waterfall lies about 8 miles north of Sligo town, and about 5 miles south of Manorhamilton. With a drop of about 50 feet, it is a small but beautiful waterfall, and was mentioned by W. B.…

Rosses Point is a beautiful maritime village and holiday resort, that boasts two blue-flag beaches. Located five miles from sligo town, the pretty village is a popular holiday resort with locals.
Rosses Point is also famous for having…