- Accountant
- Apartment building
- Asian restaurant
- Baby store
- Bakery
- Bar & grill
- Bar
- Barber shop
- Beauty salon
- Bed & breakfast
- Book store
- Cafe
- Chinese takeaway
- Cleaning service
- Clothing store
- Cocktail bar
- Coffee shop
- Community center
- Computer support and services
- Construction company
- Convenience store
- Counselor
- Day care center
- Dental clinic
- Doctor
- Dry cleaner
- Electrician
- Electronics store
- Engineering consultant
- Fast food
- Financial consultant
- Financial planner
- Fitness center
- Gastropub
- Gift shop
- Government office
- Grocery store
- Guest house
- Gym
- Hair salon
- Health consultant
- Heating equipment supplier
- Holiday apartment rental
- Holistic medicine practitioner
- Hospital
- Hostel
- Hotel
- Housing development
- Insurance agency
- Internet marketing service
- Investment service
- Irish pub
- Irish restaurant
- Italian restaurant
- Jeweler
- Jewelry store
- Laundry service
- Law firm
- Lawyer
- Lodging
- Make-up artist
- Marketing agency
- Martial arts school
- Massage
- Massage therapist
- Medical clinic
- Mental health service
- Nutritionist
- Optician
- Personal trainer
- Photographer
- Physical therapist
- Physical therapy clinic
- Pizza
- Plumber
- Preschool
- Primary school
- Property management company
- Psychologist
- Psychotherapist
- Pub
- Real estate agency
- Real estate agent
- Restaurant
- School
- Skin care clinic
- Sportswear store
- Supermarket
- Tattoo shop
- Tourist attraction
- Tourist information center
- Travel agency
- Website designer
- Wedding photographer
- Wellness center
- Women's clothing store
- Yoga studio
Sligo is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht. With a population of 20608 in 2022, it is the county’s largest urban centre (constituting 29.5% of the county’s population) and the 24th largest in the Republic of Ireland.
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. It is listed as one of the seven “royal rivers” of Ireland in the ninth century AD tale The Destruction of Da Dergas Hostel. The river Slicech is also referenced in the Annals of Ulster in 1188.
The Ordnance Survey letters of 1836 state that “cart loads of shells were found underground in many places within the town where houses now stand”. The whole area, from the river estuary at Sligo, around the coast to the river at Ballysadare Bay, is rich in marine resources which were utilised as far back as the Mesolithic period.