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Sligo town flourished during the Gaelic revival in the 14th and 15th centuries, trading with Galway and with French, Spanish and English merchants. Herring seems to have been an important commodity as it is mentioned in a Bristol sailors song of the early 15th century. "Herring of Sligo and salmon of Bann, Has made in Bristol many a rich man". [4]
During the Williamite War ... [15] born in Sligo in 1818 [16] and experienced the epidemic first hand, ... Kempten, Bavaria, Germany; Tallahassee, Florida, United ...
William de Burgh (English: / d ə ˈ b ɜːr / də-BUR, French:; Latin: de Burgo; c. 1160 –winter 1205/06) [1] was the founder of the House of Burgh (later surnamed Burke or Bourke) in Ireland [2] and elder brother of Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent and Geoffrey de Burgh, Bishop of Ely.
He served in the cavalry regiment the Royal Scots Greys during World War I. [4] [5] [6] He was the son of George Browne, 6th Marquess of Sligo and Agatha Stewart Hodgson. He died childless at the age of 42 of stomach cancer in Elpis Hospital Dublin, and was succeeded by his uncle, Arthur Howe Browne. [7] He left an estate valued at £300,845. [8]
The war began in March 1689 when James II and VII landed in Ireland seeking to reverse the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, which had replaced him with his nephew William III and daughter Mary II. The conflict was part of the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War between Louis XIV of France and the Grand Alliance , a coalition led by William as ...
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This territory, under the shadow of Benbulbin (from the Irish: Binn Ghulbain), is where Conall Gulbain set out to conquer Tír Chonaill, modern Donegal. Cairbre Drom Cliabh remained closely associated politically with the Cenel Conaill but pressure from the Kingdom of Breifne continued and various kings were imposed by them:
A member of the O'Higgins family, Ambrose was born at his family's ancestral seat in Ballynary, County Sligo, Ireland.He was the son of Charles O'Higgins and his wife (and kinswoman) Margaret O'Higgins, [4] who were forced off their lands in 1654 by Oliver Cromwell [5] and became tenant farmers at Clondoogan near Summerhill, County Meath c. 1721. [6]