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Category Archives: Historical/Heritage Sites
Ballinafad Castle
Ballinafad castle was built in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century to control the strategic Curlews pass.
The castle is relatively compact in size but it has large distinctive round towers on each of its four corners. The ruins of the castle are easily visible from the N4 Sligo to Dublin road close to Ballinafad village.
This website has more information on Ballinafad castle and some unique pictures of a model of the castle constructed from Lego!
Killaspugbrone Chruch
Killaspugbrone Chruch near Strandhill village is named after St. Bronus, a native of County Sligo who is thought to have lived around the same time as St. Patrick.
The ruins of this small rectangular shaped church is surrounded by a graveyard that had been used as a multi denominational cemetery right up to the middle of the last century. There is a marked walking trail from Strandhill out to the church and graveyard.
St. Patrick is thought to have visited the site where he tripped and lost a tooth! He apparently gave the tooth to St. Bronus who enshrined it in the church where it became a special relic.
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Tagged church, st patrick, strandhill, walking trail
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Templar Castle
Although the Order of the Knights Templar was disbanded almost 700 years ago, much is still being written about them. This is no doubt down to their involvement in the crusades, their rumoured association with the Holy Grail and the spectacular rise and fall of the order.
They acquired large areas of land and possessions over a period of 200 years, stretching from the Middle East to Western Europe including in Ireland. The ruins of one of their castles stand by the edge of Templehouse Lake near Ballinacarrow.
The castle itself is located on private farm land overlooked by Temple House, a Georgian mansion which now provides bed and breakfast accommodation.
Streedagh Wedge Tomb
This small wedge tomb is located not far from Streedagh beach. A stone circle surrounds the chamber which is now missing its roof slab and over time much of the tomb has become buried in sand. Wedge tombs were usually covered with a cairn of stones now missing from this tomb.
The most striking aspect of this wedge tomb is its location, which has beautiful views to Benbulben and to Inishmurray island five miles out into the Atlantic.
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Tagged megalithic, streedagh, wedge tomb
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Drumcliff Churchyard
The graveyard at Drumcliff is the final resting place of W.B. Yeats, buried here in 1948 after his remains had been bought back from France where he had died in 1939.
Drumcliff churchyard is often associated with St. Columcille. It is thought that he or some of his followers founded a monastery here. The Battle of the Books is said to have taken place nearby which resulted in Columcille being exiled to the Scottish island of Iona.
The remains of Sligo’s only round tower is located across the road from the church and a decorated Celtic high cross still stands in the graveyard near the entrance to the church.
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Tagged celtic high cross, churchyard, round tower, yeats
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