 WGW Sligo County, Ireland
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County Sligo history & genealogy
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This is the Church of Ireland Skreen. Both Catholics and Protestants are
buried here for two reasons. Many Churches of Ireland were constructed
on the sites of Catholic churches that were taken over, so the initial
occupants were Catholic. The remains of an ancient Catholic abbey are
at the edge of the graveyard. Also, until about 1856, the Church of
Ireland was the only church officially recognized in Ireland, so
Catholics or whoever were entitled to burial in its grounds.
The Garavogue River begins at Lough Gill, flows through Sligo town, and
its mouth is Sligo harbor. This photo shows the rapids under Hyde Bridge
where mills were located in the nineteenth century and which were the
head of navigable waters.
 
These views are up and down the Garavogue from Bridge St.
This is an old Catholic cemetery near Ballysadare called Tempal Mor
Fechin. Its church or abbey was build by St. Fechin back when the years
had three digits. It is near the rapids of the Ballysadare River which
made that town an important milling site a hundred years ago.
The old church at Kilglass was where many of the O'Dowds--overlords of
Tireragh--were buried. There is a well-preserved crypt in the ruins
inscribed "Coronet James Wood 1699." It is said that the Woods were
granted O'Dowd lands in the vicinity in the Cromwellian confiscations,
and this James had his crypt built on top of the O'Dowds deliberately.
The Booknest owned by Frank Kelly is a bookshop mentioned elsewhere on the Sligo rootsweb
page. It adjoins the Garavogue River that
bisects Sligo. There are larger bookstores in town also.
contributor:
 Paul Burns
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