Named by John Fitzgerald Mahon ( - 1942) of Vancouver and London, who subdivided land here in 1913, after his brother-in-laws' courtesy title, Earl of Altamont, the eldest son of the Marquess of Sligo, and brother of his wife, Lady Alice Mahon.
Henry Lunan, formerly an enslaved headman at Hampstead Estate, purchased the first plot in the very first Free Village or Baptist Free Village scheme to come to fruition at Sligoville (in Saint Catherine parish and named after the Marquess of Sligo, the Jamaican Governor at the time of abolition), ten miles north of Spanish Town.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Sligo | County Sligo | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Marquess | Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings | Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley | Marquess of Bute | Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire | James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie | David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter | Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster | Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey | Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava | Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol | Robert Wynn Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire | Marquess of Rockingham | Marquess of Lansdowne | marquess | John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu | Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon | Paul Marquess | Marquess of Milford Haven | Marquess of Anglesey | Marquess of Ailsa | John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair | William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton | Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow | Marquess of Sligo |
Sligoville is named after the Marquess of Sligo, Governor of Jamaica in 1834, the year that freedom came to the enslaved people of Jamaica.