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unusual facts about Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway



Ballysadare railway station

Ballysadare station was on the Midland Great Western Railway which became part of Irish Rail and it was served by the last independent railway in the British Isles, being the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway on the line to Enniskillen.

Bus Éireann

Additional services within Ireland include city services in Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford and town services in Athlone, Balbriggan, Drogheda, Dundalk, Navan and Sligo.

Cavan Cola

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

Charles Scriven

He served for six years as minister in the Seventh-day Adventist church in Sligo in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Chrodegang of Metz

In the course of the 9th century we find mention of nine places in Ireland (including Armagh, Clonmacnoise, Clones, Devenish and Sligo) where communities of these Culdees were established as a kind of annex to the regular monastic institutions.

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.

Cuimre na nGenealach

The original manuscript was lost sometime after 1706, but it survives in two, apparently incomplete, 18th century transcripts, now RIA MS 25 N2, by an unknown scribe, and Maynooth Irish MS B 8, by Henry MacCarrick, a merchant of Sligo town.

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.

Danny Keohane

Due to suspension and injury to Danny Ventre and Mauro Almeida Keohane has become a regular in the Sligo defence.

Dark Room Notes

In November 2011 DRN performed a specially-commissioned, self-composed soundtrack to the 1925 silent film The Lost World, at The Model in Sligo.

Darran O'Sullivan

'The Kingdom' were subsequently banished to the qualifiers where they had some unimpressive wins over Longford, Sligo and Antrim.

Driclor

Driclor is a strong anti-perspirant manufactured by Stiefel Laboratories (UK) and produced in Sligo, Ireland.

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.

Gurteen

Gorteen, a village in County Sligo, Ireland, often spelled Gurteen

Harry McLoughlin

Against all odds Sligo Rovers had hauled themselves back into the FAI Cup Final with a goal from Tony Stenson.

Health and Safety Authority

It operates from eight offices across Ireland: the Dublin headquarters and offices in Kilkenny, Athlone, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Sligo and Waterford.

Ian Baraclough

As a result of this title, Sligo Rovers qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League, and Baraclough was the sole English coach involved in that season's competition.

Jeremy Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo

The son of Denis Browne, 10th Marquess of Sligo and Jose Gauche, Lord Sligo was married, in 1961, to Jennifer Cooper, daughter of Derek Cooper (d. 2007) by his first wife (md. 1937 and div. 1949) Pamela Armstrong-Lushington-Tulloch.

Joseph MacManus

The Sligo West Ward Cumann of Sinn Féin is named the Joseph MacManus Cumann in honour of MacManus and there is an annual lecture given in his name which has been addressed by Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Pat Doherty, Pearse Doherty, Aengus O Snodaigh and Gerry Adams in recent years.

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.

Kildare Place National School

Evan McMillan – League of Ireland footballer with Sligo Rovers FC

Martin Milmore

Milmore immigrated to Boston from Sligo, Ireland at age seven, graduated from Boston Latin School in 1860, took art lessons at the Lowell Institute, and learned to carve in wood and stone from his older brother Joseph (1841–1886).

MGWR Class D

They were originally planned for use on the Mullingar to Sligo mail trains, however they were poor steamers and proved to be underpowered for this work being transferred soon afterwards to the Westport – Achill branch line in western County Mayo — a highly scenic line which passed through the small town of Newport and the village of Mallaranny before reaching the western seaboard at Achill Sound.

Mickey Moran

In his managerial career he has had three stints managing Derry and has also managed Sligo, Donegal, Mayo and Leitrim.

Mount Carmel Hospital

Founded in 1949, it is part of the Mount Carmel Medical Group, which includes Aut Even Hospital in Kilkenny and St. Joseph's Hospital, Sligo.

North Carolina Highway 168

NC 168 curves west and crosses two of Tull Creek's tributaries before meeting the northern end of NC 34 (Shawboro Road) at Sligo.

O'Connell Street, Limerick

:O'Connell Street is also the main street in Dublin, Ennis, Sligo and in various other towns around Ireland, and also the main street of North Adelaide

Roman Catholic Diocese of Elphin

Its Cathedral, which was originally established in the County Roscommon town of Elphin, is now in Sligo.

There are currently thirty-seven parishes in the Diocese, which are divided into 6 administrative deaneries, based in the towns of Sligo, Boyle, Strokestown, Castlerea, Roscommon and the part of Athlone west of the River Shannon.

Setanta Sports Cup

Cup holders Crusaders, 2012 FAI Cup winners Derry City, 2011–12 IFA Premiership champions Linfield and 2012 League of Ireland champions Sligo Rovers entered the competition in the quarter-finals, with the remaining eight clubs entering in the first round.

Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International

The editor of the denominational magazine, Adventist Review, was a member of Sligo Church and together Sligo Church and the staff of Adventist Review sponsored a weekend AIDS Conference.

Simon and Monika Newbound

Their route went eastward from Sligo, Ireland to St. John's, Newfoundland, via Norway, Moscow, Siberia, Tokyo and Toronto, Canada.

Sligo Creek

In the Takoma Park section of the creek (near Washington Adventist University), the remains of a dam and associated building foundations for the Sligo Creek Waterworks can still be seen.

Another prominent folk guitarist, Al Petteway, composed "Sligo Creek" while living in the Takoma Park area.

Susan L. Mitchell

He died when she was six years old and she was sent to Dublin to be educated, while her mother, Kate (née Cullen, a prominent family from Manorhamilton), moved to Sligo in order to have her sons educated there.

The Niland Collection

The Niland Collection is Sligo's municipal art collection, named after Nora Niland, the County Librarian who began the collection in the 1950s.

Thomas Bourke, 4th Baron Bourke of Connell

Thomas had been preceded as Baron Bourke of Castleconnell by his two elder brothers, John (who sat in parliament in Dublin in 1585 and was slain in battle at Hounslow, Middlesex on January 14, 1592, leaving no issue) and Richard (slain in battle by Dermot O'Connor Sligo at Ballynecargy, County Limerick on February 28, 1599, also leaving no issue).

Xano

Idálio Alexandre Ferreira (born 1983), Portuguese footballer known as "Xano", currently playing for Sligo Rovers


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