Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Sligo’s past.
County Sligo, highlighted.
Vanishing Ireland (Sligo people)
- Willie Davey (1940-2022) – The Ballymote Hellraiser
- Bernie Dwyer (1936-2014) – The Butcher of Ballymote
- Mick Gallagher (1932-2022), Farm Labourer – Collooney
- Very Rev. Patrick Gill – The Parish Priest of Lecanvey (Mayo)
- Jim Kielty (1915-2013) – Hackney Driver, Ballymote
- Helen Fegan-Joyce (1927-2023), Sligo Town – A Vanishing Ireland podcast
- Francie McFadden (1929-2013) – The Gravedigger of Ballymote
- Joe Muldoon (1931- 2016) – Farmer of Ballymote
- Paddy Scanlan (1927-2016) – Skipper & Lighthouse Keeper – Rosses Point
County Sligo – Family Histories
- Ashley, Cowper and Mountbattern of Classiebawn
- Marren of Ballymote & Tobbercurry
- Musgrave Migration from Leitrim to Cork
- O’Hara of Annaghmore
- Perceval of Temple House
County Sligo – Places
- Notes on Sligo Town
- Brennan’s – The Criterion Hotel, Bundoran (County Donegal)
- Thomas Connolly’s – Holborn & Markievicz Street, Sligo Town
- Temple House – Atlantic Stronghold of the Knights Templar
People connected to County Sligo
- Columba (521-592) – the Making of a Missionary
- Turlough O’Connor, High King of the Waterways
- The ‘Emancipator of Jamaica’ [Dubliner, 12/01] and referenced here.
- Charles Spencer Cowper (1816-1879)
- Lola Montez and the King of Bavaria
- Bram Stoker – mother’s connection referenced in vampires article here.
Articles with a Sligo Connection
- The Rathinaun Hoard & Mesolithic Sligo
- An tSlí Mhór (The Great Way) and the Esker Riada
- Tuatha De Danaan – Greetings Earthlings? (1999)
- The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
- The Cistercian Order in Ireland
- Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar – The Irish Experience
- The Voice of Constance Markievicz
- The Big Snow of 1947, 1963, 1982 … and other major Snowstorms
- Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
- Irish Manor Houses – National Geographic Traveler, 2014
- The Irish and the White House