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Sligo County Council (Irish: Comhairle Chontae Shligigh) is the local authority of County Sligo, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment. The council has 18 ...
Establishment of the Department of Social Welfare [4] 22 January 1947 Transfer of Social Welfare [5] 15 October 1947 Transfer of Social Welfare from the Department of Local Government [6] 3 October 1966 Transfer of Labour to the Department of Labour [7] 12 July 1997 Renamed as the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs [8] 27 July 2001
Ireland portal; This is a sortable table of the approximately 1,325 townlands in County Sligo, Ireland. [1] [2]Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county.
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Sligo hosts several festivals throughout the year, including Sligo Live, occurring every October; the Sligo Summer Festival, which celebrated the 400th anniversary of Sligo town; and the Fleadh Cheoil, which the town hosted in three consecutive years (1989, 1990 and 1991) and again in 2014 and 2015. Approximately 400,000 people attended the ...
The Sligo coastline at Mullaghmore, with Classiebawn Castle in the distance Beezie's Island on Lough Gill. County Sligo is the setting for a large number of the texts in the Mythological Cycles. The story of Diarmad and Grainne has its final act played out on Ben Bulben. The Second Battle of Moytirra is associated with Moytirra in South County ...
Ballintogher (Irish: Baile an Tóchair) [2] is a village in County Sligo, Ireland.It is located approximately 8 kilometers southeast of the county town of Sligo on the R290 road between Ballygawley to the west and Dromahair in County Leitrim to the north-east.
The hospital, which was designed by William Deane Butler in the Elizabethan-style, opened as the Sligo Asylum in 1855. [1] It became Sligo Mental Hospital in the 1920s and went on to become St. Columba's Hospital in the 1950s. [1]