Sligo

[ slahy-goh ]

/ ˈslaɪ goʊ /

noun

a county in Connaught province, in the NW Republic of Ireland. 694 sq. mi. (1795 sq. km).

its county seat: a seaport.

Example sentences from the Web for sligo

Besides their ride, they lost the remainder of the story of Sligo, if that can be said to be lost which never existed.

Mary Erskine |Jacob Abbott
I found a supporter at Sligo in my elderly uncle, a man of fifty-three or fifty-four, with the habits of a much older man.

The Trembling of the Veil |William Butler Yeats
The surface is excellent, and the scenery pretty right into Sligo.

The Sunny Side of Ireland |John O'Mahony and R. Lloyd Praeger
On a strand near Sligo an English captain numbered eleven hundred corpses which had been cast up by the sea.

History of the English People |John Richard Green

There is no railway from Bundoran to Sligo, that is, no direct railway.

Ireland as It Is |Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

British Dictionary definitions for sligo

Sligo

/ (ˈslaɪɡəʊ) /

noun

a county of NW Republic of Ireland, on the Atlantic: has a deeply indented low-lying coast; livestock and dairy farming. County town: Sligo. Pop: 58 200 (2002). Area: 1795 sq km (693 sq miles)

a port in NW Republic of Ireland, county town of Co Sligo on Sligo Bay . Pop: 19 735 (2002)

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