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Sligo
County Sligo · Connacht

About Sligo

Sligo, Sligeach in Irish, is a town in County Sligo, 117 km north of Galway, with 19,199 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the N15, N16 and N4. The map gives it 12,141 buildings and 304 named streets, with 546 places named on them in 162 kinds, and 219 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Population
19,199 at the 2016 census
Where
117 km north of Galway, 178 km from Dublin
Position
54.2721° N, 8.4751° W, 13 m above sea level
Area
30.86 km²
Roads
N15, N16, N4, R278, R286, R287, R291 and R292
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
Twinned with
Kempten, Germany, Crozon, France, Illapel, Chile and Tallahassee, United States
On the model
12,141 buildings, 304 streets, 546 named places in 162 kinds
River Garavogue through Sligo town
River Garavogue through Sligo town·NTF30, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
River Garavogue through Sligo town
River Garavogue through Sligo town·NTF30, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Sligo in order

11 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1536 to 2001. That is not a history of Sligo, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

15362001Creevelea AbbeyModel Niland Gallery
The sixteenth century
  • 1536Creevelea AbbeyAbbeys · 12 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
  • 1628Parke's CastleCastles · 9.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

County Sligo since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

180,88650,27570,19818412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 219 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N15, N16, N4, R278, R286, R287, R291 and R292 running through Sligo. 11 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 21 lines call at 101 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

14 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Sligo?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 117 km north of Galway and 178 km from Dublin, on the N15, N16 and N4.
How big is Sligo?
19,199 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 12,141 buildings and 304 named streets.
What is there to see in Sligo?
219 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Discover Ireland, Yeats Memorial Building and WB yeats.
How do you get to Sligo?
21 bus and train lines call at 101 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Sligo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 180,886 people in the county in 1841 and 70,198 in 2022.
12,141
buildings on the model
304
named streets
546
named places
162
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q190002). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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