Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Sligo. You may be able to find further references to Sligo in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Sligo	market and seaport town	Bartholomew
SLIGO	a sea-port, assize, borough, market and post-town	Lewis:Ireland

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Sligo within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Arthur Young	21st to 31st August 1776: Roscommon, Sligo and Mayo	7
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
Arthur Young	21st to 31st July 1776: Down, Armagh and Antrim	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer