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unusual facts about Mullaghmore, County Sligo



Aindileas Ua Chlúmháin

A later bearer of the name, who died in 1438, is listed as O'Clumain, Chief Poet to O'Hara, a Chief of the Name in County Sligo.

Anderson baronets

The Anderson Baronetcy, of Parkmount in the County of the City of Belfast and of Mullaghmore in the County of Monaghan, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 June 1911 for Robert Anderson, Lord Mayor of Belfast from 1908 to 1910.

Burren Action Group

The Burren Action Group was a group of people from County Clare in Ireland who opposed plans during the 1990s by the Office of Public Works to develop a large scale interpretative centre at Mullaghmore in the local Burren area.

Carmel Gunning

The book was launched at The Coleman Music Centre, Gurteen, County Sligo after a comprehensive lecture entitled A World Stage For Irish Music.

Cavan Cola

It was introduced in 1958, and was sold in 250ml bottles in shops in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Sligo, Leitrim, Louth and Meath.

County Sligo

Yeats said, "the place that has really influenced my life most is Sligo." He is buried in North County Sligo, "Under Ben Bulben", in Drumcliff.

Curry GAA

Curry is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based along the Sligo-Mayo border comprising the parish of Curry in County Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

Dermot Healy

Born in Finnea, County Westmeath, he lives in County Sligo, and has been described variously as a "master", a "Celtic Hemingway" and as "Ireland's finest living novelist".

Francisco de Cuellar

Sentence was not executed, and Cuellar remained on board until the galleon, a member of the Levant squadron, which suffered heavy losses on the return voyage (less than 400 survivors returned out of 4,000 who set sail), anchored along the Irish coast, a mile off Streedagh Strand in modern County Sligo, in the company of two other galleons.

Glenada, Oregon

George Huestis Colter was born on June 12, 1854 in Nova Scotia to Daniel and Almira (Huestis) Colter, the former a native of County Sligo, Ireland, and the latter of Nova Scotia.

Guerrilla Phase of the Irish Civil War

They held out in areas such as the western part of counties Cork and Kerry in the south, County Wexford in the east and counties Sligo and Mayo in the west.

John O'Donohue

O'Donohue also devoted his energies to environmental activism, and is credited with helping spearhead the Burren Action Group, which opposed government development plans and ultimately preserved the area of Mullaghmore and the Burren, a karst landscape in County Clare.

Keep Ireland Open

Keep Ireland Open has also been involved in several individual access disputes around the country, in Wicklow, Cork, Sligo, Donegal and many other areas.

Lichau Creek

O'Hara was born in 1833 in County Sligo, Ireland and settled in Penngrove sometime between 1852 and 1857 and died in 1911 at the age of 78 years.

Mac Siúrtáin

The de Exeters expelled the Ó Gadhras into Coolavin, County Sligo, while the clan Ó hEaghra retained the name Luighne for their territory to the north.

Mullaghmore, County Sligo

It was off the Mullaghmore coast in August 1979 that Lord Mountbatten, along with The Dowager Baroness Brabourne, The Hon. Nicholas Knatchbull and County Fermanagh teenager Paul Maxwell, were killed by a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA.

Murrisk Abbey

The Murrisk Augustinian Friary was founded on lands granted by Thady O'Malley in 1457 by Hugh O'Malley of Banada Friary, County Sligo who was granted permission by Pope Calluistus to establish a Church and Priory at Croagh Patrick because "the inhabitants of those parts have not hitherto been instructed in their faith.".

Nathaniel Clarke Wallace

Born in Woodbridge, Ontario, the third son of the Nathanael Wallace and Ann Wallace, natives of County Sligo, Ireland, who came to Canada in 1834 and 1833 respectively.

Niall FitzGerald

Niall FitzGerald, KBE (born 13 September 1945 in County Sligo) is an Irish businessman.

Otho Prior-Palmer

Prior-Palmer was born in Ireland where his father, Spunner Prior-Palmer, was a landowner in County Sligo.

Seaán Ó Clumháin

By the 15th century, a branch of the family were house poets to O'Hara of County Sligo.

Téada

Hailing from the rich musical environment of County Sligo, Damien Stenson who is noted for his extensive repertoire and flowing style of playing.

Temple House Manor and Castle

Temple House Castle (Irish: Caisleán) was a rectangular keepless castle, built in 1181 located near the townland of Ballinacarrow on the outskirts of Ballymote in south County Sligo, Ireland.


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