11 Jul Abbeyquarter Passage Tomb
The Abbeyquarter Stones occupy the center of Ireland’s only traffic circle containing a prehistoric monument. Constructed as a home for the dead, it now serves...
Sligo Tag
16 Jun Folklore, Archaeology, and William Butler Yeats
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20 Jun Bring Home the Inishmurray Relics
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30 Dec Creevykeel Court Tomb
The site, right off the main Sligo-Bundoran road, allows a convenient stop. But it is difficult for the visitor to escape the traffic noise and...
16 Nov Tullylin and Carns
Is it possible that there might be a connection between an ancient inauguration stone, a nearby fairy fort, and the apparition that appear to four...
11 Nov Tobernaveen Holed Stone
The use of this stone in folk remedies did not end at the beginning of the twentieth century. A woman living very close to the...
09 Nov Carrowkeel Passage Tombs
The Carrowkeel passage tombs are only 20 minutes from the rushing traffic of the N4. But they are a world apart: a transition from a...
16 Oct Rosses Point:
“The Celtic Twilight”
Rosses, Co. Sligo "At the northern corner of Rosses is a little promontory of sand and rocks and grass: a mournful, haunted place. No wise peasant...
15 Oct Tullaghan Hill Holy Well
Coolaney, Co. Sligo Although it is two miles from the sea, and atop a mountain, the well was in 1188 called one of the wonders of...
15 Oct Queen Maeve’s Cairn
(Meascán Mhéabha)
The cairn of Miosgán Meadhbha rises like a pale-grey crown above the flat-topped summit of Knocknarea, its vast mass of stone turning the entire mountain...
12 Sep The Children of the Mermaid
Enniscrone, Co. Sligo The stones on this seaside bluff in Co. Sligo were not, in legend, people accused of any transgression. Rather, it was just a...
23 Aug Keshcorran, and the
Caves of Kesh
Keash, Co Sligo It is a steep climb up a hillside, but the view from inside Cormac’s Cave makes it obvious how this location might have...
07 Aug Inishmurray Monastic Site
Inishmurray, Co. Sligo Today a visitor on a day trip from Mullaghmore might be tempted to idealize life on this small island. But the story of...
