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Sights and landmarks in Sligo

8 sights worth seeing in Sligo: landmarks, galleries, monuments and viewpoints.

Ranked with the travel guide's picks and well-known places first.

Sights and landmarks in Sligo

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    Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery

    Remarkable ritual landscape with some 30 tombs dating to 3700-3000 BC; they're passage tombs but with atypical features.

    Mar-Nov daily 10AM-5PMAdult €5, conc €4, child €3

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    Creevelea Abbey

    Substantial ruin of a Franciscan Friary established in 1508. In spite of formal dissolution of the Order and ousting by Cromwell's forces, the friars retained a presence until 1837.

    24 hrsFree

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    Parke's Castle

    This is just across the boundary into County Leitrim, but easiest to reach from Sligo — boat trips of the lough call here. It's a 17th-century fortified manor house built over the 15th-century O'Rourke's Castle. It fell derelict but was restored by OPW in the 20th century.

    Apr-Oct daily 10AM-5PMAdult €5, child €3, conc €4

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    Sligo Abbey

    The abbey was founded in 1253, destroyed by fire in 1414, rebuilt but sacked in 1642. In the 19th century the last friars left to nearby Holy Cross, but the building was restored, and the choir, carved altar and cloisters are impressive. Yeats set two short stories here.

    Apr-Dec daily 10AM-5PMAdult €5, conc €4, child €3

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    The Model

    Niland Collection

    Contemporary art gallery named for the "model school" in this building 1862-1970s. The permanent exhibition is the Niland Collection, which majors on the paintings of Jack B Yeats, brother of the poet WB Yeats. Plus other temporary exhibitions of visual art, plus music.

    Thu-Sat 11AM-5PMFree

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    St John the Baptist Cathedral

    Cathedral of St Mary the Virgin and St John the Baptist

    This was the Church of Ireland (Anglican) parish church from the 1730s. The diocese was based in Elphin in Roscommon until 1961, but that building was far from its congregation and was damaged by storms in 1957, so the Sligo church became the cathedral.

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    Yeats Society

    This houses a display on WB Yeats. They also organise cultural events such as the annual summer school.

    Wed-Sat 11AM-4PM

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    Sligo Cathedral

    Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

    Romanesque Catholic cathedral completed in 1874.

    Daily 7AM-10PM

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Sligo (CC BY-SA 4.0).