DRIVING around SLIGO TOWN in IRELAND 🇮🇪 4K (60fps)

Beautiful crystal clear Winters Day drive around Sligo Town in Ireland 🇮🇪 19 NOVEMBER 2024

SLIGO TOWN

Sligo (/ˈslaɪɡoʊ/ SLY-goh; Irish: Sligeach [ˈʃl̠ʲɪɟəx], meaning 'abounding in shells') is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht.

Sligo is a commercial and cultural centre situated on the west coast of Ireland. Its surrounding coast and countryside, as well as its connections to the poet W. B. Yeats, have made it a tourist destination.

Sligo is the anglicisation of the Irish name Sligeach, meaning "abounding in shells" or "shelly place". It refers to the abundance of shellfish found in the river and its estuary, and from the extensive shell middens in the vicinity. The river now known as the Garavogue (Irish: An Gharbhóg), perhaps meaning "little torrent", was originally called the Sligeach.

Situated on a coastal plain facing the Atlantic Ocean, Sligo is located on low gravel hills on the banks of the Garavogue River between Lough Gill and the estuary of the Garavogue river leading to Sligo Bay. The town is surrounded on three sides by an arc of mountains, with the Ox Mountain ridges of Slieve Daeane and Killery Mountain to the southeast bordering Lough Gill. The flat topped limestone plateaux of Cope's, Keelogyboy and Castlegal Mountains to the north and northeast and the singular hill of Knocknarea with its Neolithic cairn to the west and the distinctive high plateau of Benbulben to the north.

Sligo hosts several festivals throughout the year, including Sligo Live, occurring every October; the Sligo Summer Festival, which celebrated the 400th anniversary of Sligo town; and the Fleadh Cheoil, which the town hosted in three consecutive years (1989, 1990 and 1991) and again in 2014 and 2015. Approximately 400,000 people attended the 2014 and 2015 festivals. During the festival, much of the music was played by musicians on the streets of Sligo. The Sligo Jazz Project is held every July. Another annual festival, the Sligo Festival of Baroque Music, was started in 1995 and takes place on the last weekend of September.

0:00 SLIGO TOWN
0:20 KNOCKNAGANNY NEIGHBORHOOD
0:51 SNOW ON THE MOUNTAINS
3:30 SLIGO COURTHOUSE
4:00 SLIGO TOWN CENTRE
7:53 SLIGO BUS STATION
9:55 RATHQUARTER NEIGHBORHOOD
14:46 LIDL SLIGO
16:10 RATHEDMOND NEIGHBORHOOD
18:49 SLIGO HARBOUR
19:26 BALLAST QUAY ROAD
27:07 DUNNES STORES

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