Sligo

Sligo is the principal town in in Northwest Ireland & Lakelands. In 2022 it had a population of 21,000, with the service sector the main employer.
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  • Type: Town with 20,600 residents
  • Description: main town in county Sligo, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Sligeach”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sligo Mac Diarmada railway station and Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

Railway station
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Sligo railway station, also known as MacDiarmada station, is a mainline railway station which serves the town of Sligo in , Ireland. It is a terminal station which now has two platforms and an intermediate carriage siding.

Church
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The is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Elphin. It is located on Temple Street in Sligo, .

Stadium
is the principal GAA stadium in , , home to the Sligo Gaelic football and hurling teams. Built in 1955 in Sligo town, it is named after Constance Markievicz, one of the participants of the 1916 Easter Rising, the first woman elected to Dáil Éireann and the first female elected to the British parliament, although she refused to take up her seat there.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rosses Point and Ballincar.

Photo: Gerry Gallagher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in with a population of 900 in 2022. It's a fishing village at the outflow of Sligo Bay, and "Ross" means the peninsula between that and Drumcliffe Bay further north.

Hamlet
is a small village and townland in , Ireland. The townland is in the civil parish of , and has an area of approximately 1.6 square kilometres.

Locality
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or Rathcormac is a village in , . It is 6 km north of Sligo town on the N15 road between mountain and the sea. is situated 5 km north of Sligo.

Sligo

Latitude
54.2721° or 54° 16′ 20″ north
Longitude
-8.4751° or 8° 28′ 31″ west
Population
20,600
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
IATA airport code
SXL
United Nations Location Code
IE SLI
Open location code
9C6H7GCF+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1681534704
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2961423
Wiki­data ID
Q190002
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Sligo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سلايغو”
  • Arabic: “سليجو”
  • Armenian: “Սլայգո (մարզ)”
  • Armenian: “Սլայգո”
  • Asturian: “Sligo”
  • Basque: “Sligo”
  • Belarusian: “Слайга”
  • Breton: “Sligeach”
  • Breton: “Sligo”
  • Bulgarian: “Слайго”
  • Bulgarian: “Слайгоу”
  • Catalan: “Sligo”
  • Cebuano: “Sligo”
  • Central Kurdish: “سلایگۆ”
  • Chinese: “斯莱戈”
  • Chinese: “斯萊戈”
  • Cornish: “Sligeach”
  • Czech: “Sligo”
  • Danish: “Sligeach”
  • Danish: “Sligo”
  • Dutch: “Sligo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سلايجو”
  • Esperanto: “Sligo”
  • Estonian: “Sligeach”
  • Estonian: “Sligo”
  • Finnish: “Sligo”
  • French: “Sligo”
  • Galician: “Sligo - Sligeach”
  • Galician: “Sligo”
  • Georgian: “სლაიგო”
  • German: “Sligo”
  • Greek: “Σλάιγκο”
  • Hebrew: “סלייגו”
  • Hungarian: “Sligo”
  • Ido: “Sligo”
  • Indonesian: “Sligeach”
  • Indonesian: “Sligo”
  • Irish: “Sligeach”
  • Italian: “Sligo Town”
  • Italian: “Sligo”
  • Japanese: “スライゴ”
  • Japanese: “スライゴー”
  • Korean: “슬라이고”
  • Latin: “Slegum”
  • Latvian: “Slaigo”
  • Lithuanian: “Slaigas”
  • Lithuanian: “Slaigo”
  • Lithuanian: “Sligas”
  • Macedonian: “Слајго”
  • Maltese: “Sligo”
  • Manx: “Shliggagh”
  • Manx: “Sligeach”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sligo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sligo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sligeach”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sligo”
  • Norwegian: “Sligo”
  • Ossetian: “Слайго”
  • Persian: “اسلایگو”
  • Persian: “اسلیگو”
  • Piemontese: “Sligo”
  • Polish: “Sligo”
  • Portuguese: “Sligo”
  • Romanian: “Sligo”
  • Russian: “Слайго”
  • Sardinian: “Sligo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sligeach”
  • Serbian: “Slajgo”
  • Serbian: “Sligo”
  • Serbian: “Слајго”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Slajgo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sligeach”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sligo”
  • Slovak: “Sligo”
  • Slovenian: “Sligo”
  • Spanish: “Bahia de Sligo”
  • Spanish: “Bahía de Sligo”
  • Spanish: “Sligo”
  • Swahili: “Sligo”
  • Swedish: “Sligo”
  • Turkish: “Sligo”
  • Ukrainian: “Слайго”
  • Ukrainian: “Слайґо”
  • Urdu: “سلائیگو”
  • Welsh: “Sligeach”
  • Welsh: “Sligo”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯莱戈”

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