- Sligo’s Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery, dating to 3700 BC, contains over 60 tombs, making it one of Europe’s oldest burial sites.
- The county’s Benbulben, a flat-topped mountain, was formed by glaciers 320 million years ago and features rare Arctic-alpine plants.
- Sligo’s Classiebawn Castle, built in 1874, was owned by Lord Mountbatten and visited by Prince Charles in the 1970s.
- The Caves of Kesh, a limestone cave system near Keash, contain 17 chambers used for rituals in Neolithic times.
- Sligo’s Strandhill beach is home to a 100-year-old seaweed bathhouse, offering traditional treatments using hand-harvested seaweed.
- The county’s Lough Gill has an island, Innisfree, immortalised in W.B. Yeats’ poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
- Sligo’s Knocknarea Mountain has a 5,000-year-old cairn, Medb’s Tomb, a 55-metre-wide unexcavated monument linked to a mythical queen.
- The town of Drumcliffe is home to Saint Columba’s Church, where poet W.B. Yeats is buried under a limestone headstone.
- Sligo’s Lissadell House, built in 1830, was the childhood home of Constance Markievicz, Ireland’s first female parliamentarian.
- The county’s Coney Island, accessible by causeway, inspired the naming of New York’s Coney Island by a Sligo-born sailor.
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County Sligo:
Ireland’s county Sligo is renowned for its poetic heritage and coastal scenery, with the Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery offering one of Europe’s oldest prehistoric sites. The Benbulben mountain provides striking hiking trails, while Strandhill’s beaches are ideal for surfing. Other attractions include the historic Lissadell House and its gardens. Sligo is Ireland’s 22nd largest county by size (1,796 square km) and seventh smallest by population (70,198). Population peaked at 180,886 in 1841 and reached its lowest point, 50,275 in 1971. In terms of hospitality, Sligo is Ireland’s 17th most visited tourist county with around 133,000 international visitors per year.
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