Hazelwood
Hazelwood is an ancient area of woodland located just over 2 miles outside the town of Sligo in northwest Ireland, in the parish of Calry. It is the setting for W.B.Yeats's The Song of Wandering Aengus.- Type: Deciduous forest
- Description: woodland in County Sligo, Ireland
- Also known as: “Hazelwood, County Sligo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tobernalt and Markievicz Park.
Tobernalt
Spring
Photo: Bob Embleton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tobernalt is a holy well in north County Sligo, Ireland near the southwest corner of Lough Gill. It is an ancient natural spring dating back to the 5th century as a pagan meeting place and later a Penal Law mass site.
Markievicz Park
Stadium
Markievicz Park is the principal GAA stadium in County Sligo, Ireland, 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.
Church Island
Islet
Photo: Hollywelltrees, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Church Island is one of 23 islands on Lough Gill, situated in the northwest of Ireland. It is the largest island on the lake and is named after a monastery that was founded there in the 6th century, by Saint Lommán of Trim.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sligo and Ballincar.
Sligo
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sligo is the principal town in County Sligo in Northwest Ireland & Lakelands. In 2022 it had a population of 21,000, with the service sector the main employer.
Ballincar
Hamlet
Ballincar is a small village and townland in County Sligo, Ireland. The townland is in the civil parish of Drumcliff, and has an area of approximately 1.6 square kilometres.
Fivemilebourne
Locality
Fivemilebourne is a populated area of County Leitrim, Ireland. It lies within the civil parish of Drumlease and the historic barony of Drumahaire.
Hazelwood
- Category: forest
- Location: County Sligo, Connacht, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.2558° or 54° 15′ 21″ northLongitude
-8.4286° or 8° 25′ 43″ westOpen location code
9C6H7H4C+8GOpenStreetMap ID
way 1533710310OpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodWikidata ID
Q5688142
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Hazelwood” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “ヘイズルウッド”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hazelwood House and Willow Island.
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