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Category: Archaeology

  • The Archaeological Peninsula: Sligo’s Development Constraints and Planning Crisis

    !DOCTYPE html> Sacred Ground, Modern City Planning Within Ancient Landscapes Article 1 of 7 Archaeological Constraints • UNESCO Heritage • Urban Planning • Neolithic Landscape How one of Ireland’s most significant Neolithic landscapes is reshaping urban planning in the 21st century Sligo town occupies one of the most archaeologically constrained urban environments in Europe. As […]

  • The Demolition of 39 High Street

    The council and the preservation laws are facilitating, albeit inadvertently, the steady loss of the old town urban fabric. Many iconic shop fronts, residential and industrial buildings, cobbled streets, mills and weirs, have been lost over the years, a legacy that does not seem to be changing.

  • Why Sligo Needs a World Class Museum

    The case for a world class museum in the town of Sligo, northwest Ireland.

  • Queen Medb and Lakshmi, Irish Kingship and the Feminine Power

    “for ’tis I that exacted a singular vow, such as no woman before me had ever required of a man of the men of Erin, namely, a husband without avarice, without jealousy, without fear. For should he be mean, the man with whom I should live, we were ill-matched together, in as much as I […]

  • The Sligo Mills at the Glasshouse

    In 2005 excavations took place on the site of the present Glasshouse hotel. The site had been that of the Sligo Mills, owned by the Pollexfen family in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Pollexfens were WB Yeats maternal family. Mills on the site appear to have been there at least since the […]