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Religious Site Attractions In County Sligo

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County Sligo is a county in Ireland. It is located in the Border Region and is part of the province of Connacht. Sligo is the administrative capital and largest town in the county. Sligo County Council is the local authority for the county. The population of the county is 65,535 according to the 2016 census, making it the 3rd most populated county in the province. It is noted for Benbulben Mountain, one of Ireland’s most distinctive natural landmarks.
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  • 1. Sligo Abbey Sligo
    Sligo is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht. With a population of approximately 20,000 in 2016, it is the second largest urban centre in the West of Ireland, with only Galway being larger. The Sligo Borough District constitutes 61% of the county's population of 63,000.Sligo is a historic, cultural, commercial, industrial, retail and service centre of regional importance in the West of Ireland. Served by rail, port and road links, Sligo exerts a significant influence on its hinterland. Sligo is also a popular tourist destination, being situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty, with many literary and cultural associations.
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  • 2. Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Sligo
    This article refers to the Roman Catholic cathedral. For the Church of Ireland cathedral, see St John the Baptist Cathedral, Sligo. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Temple Street in Sligo, Ireland, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Elphin. The man responsible for the development of the Cathedral was Bishop Laurence Gillooly appointed Bishop of Elphin in 1858. He decided that the diocese was now of a size and wealth that the time had come to replace St. John’s Parish Chapel which had been recognised as the Pro Cathedral needed replaced.He engaged George Goldie, one of the foremost Catholic architects in England in the nineteenth century, and the Cathedral was opened for divine worship on 26 July 1874 by Cardinal Paul Cullen of Dublin.The cathedral was b...
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  • 3. Drumcliffe Church Drumcliff
    Drumcliff or Drumcliffe is a village in County Sligo, Ireland. It is 8 km north of Sligo town on the N15 road on a low gravel ridge between the mountain of Ben Bulben and Drumcliff bay. It is on the Drumcliff river, originally called the Codnach, which drains Glencar Lake. The name Codnach means chief or princely river. The old name of Drumcliff was Cnoc na Teagh . The village is one of several possible locations in Co. Sligo for the settlement of Nagnata as marked on Claudius Ptolemy's early map of Ireland.
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  • 4. Church of St. John the Baptist Sligo
    This article refers to the Church of Ireland cathedral. For the Roman Catholic cathedral, see Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Sligo St John the Baptist Cathedral, Sligo or more properly the Cathedral of St Mary the Virgin and St John the Baptist, Sligo but also known as Sligo Cathedral is one of two cathedral churches in the diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh in the Church of Ireland. It is situated in the town of Sligo, Ireland in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh. The church was built as St John's Church in the mid-18th century to the design of architect Richard Cassels, who adopted a basilica pattern from Roman architecture. The external appearance has been substantially altered by the replacement of the original round arched Romanesque windows, the addition of battlement...
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