Sligo takes its name from Sligeach, ‘the shelly place’, a county of mountain, lake and megalithic tomb that would later capture the imagination of Ireland’s greatest poet.
Contae Shligigh · Yeats County · Connacht
Sligo takes its name from Sligeach, ‘the shelly place’, a county of mountain, lake and megalithic tomb that would later capture the imagination of Ireland’s greatest poet.
This is where W.B. Yeats is buried beneath Ben Bulben, as he asked, and where Knocknarea rises over Carrowmore’s five-thousand-year-old tombs, crowned by a cairn said to hold Queen Medb herself, forever facing her enemies in Ulster.
