1874 – Townhall, Sligo, Co. Sligo
Architect: William Hague Designed by William Hague (who was better known for his churches), Sligo Townhall is a well proportioned building in a Lombardo-Romanesque style. The dominant feature is the...
View Article1864 – Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ballymote, Co. Sligo
Architect: George Goldie The first church in Ireland by George Goldie with the foundartion stone laid in October 1859. Construction was delayed by a masons’ strike with the church finally opened in...
View Article1862 – Railway Station, Ballymote, Co. Sligo
Architect: George Wilkinson A variant of Wilkinson’s standard design along this line, Ballymote opened on 3 December 1862. Related Posts: 1862 – Railway Station, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim 1862 –...
View Article1852 – Hyde Bridge, Sligo, Co. Sligo
Architect: Sir John Benson This is the main bridge in Sligo and was built between 1848-53 by local architect and engineer Sir John Benson. Originally it was dedicated to Queen Victoria but has since...
View Article1851 – Library, Sligo, Co. Sligo
Architects: Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon Designed by Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon as a small Gothic Revival church in 1851, it was converted in 1954 into a Library. The former manse of 1867 is the Sligo County...
View Article1850 – Railway Station, Sligo, Co. Sligo
Architect: John Skipton Mulvany Built in the early 1850s by John Skipton Mulvany, the architect of the sublime Broadstone station in Dublin, the station was burned out during the Irish Civil War. This...
View Article1842 – Seafield, Co. Sligo
Architect: George Papworth Also known as Lisheen, and now almost completely ruined. Reputed to be haunted, the house was abandoned in the 1920s after repeated attempts to rid the house of its presence...
View Article1730 – St John’s, Church of Ireland, Sligo, Co. Sligo
Architect: Richard Cassels A much modified Georgian Cathedral with Victorian glass and fitttings from 1890, the Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Baptist, John Street, is the oldest...
View Article1250 – Dominican Friary, Sligo, Co. Sligo
Known locally as the Abbey, this Dominican Friary was founded in the mid-13th century by Maurice FitzGerald, Baron of Offaly. The Abbey has had a turbulent history, having been destroyed by fire in...
View Article1848 – Dominican Friary, Sligo, Co. Sligo
Categories: Architecture of Sligo Vanished IrelandTags: Architecture of SligochurchesCo. SligoG.C. AshlinJohn BensonArchitect: John Benson / G.C. Ashlin Church constructed between 1845-48 replacing an...
View Article1875 – Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, John St., Sligo
Architect: George Goldie A massive exercise in a Norman style by English architect George Goldie. With a nave of 275 feet and a massive 200ft tower, it’s Goldie’s most dramatic work in Ireland....
View Article1875 – Classiebawn, Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo
Architect: J. Rawson Carroll Designed in the Baronial style by J. Rawson Carroll, a Dublin-based, but Scottish, architect, and is constructed of local stone with Mountcharles stone dressings brought by...
View Article1850 – Seaweed Baths, Enniscrone, Co. Sligo
Unusual building, formerly a Seaweed Baths, and now increasingly derelict. One of the corner turrets is now gone.
View Article1818 – Former Prison, Sligo, Co. Sligo
Designed to hold 200 inmates in a polygon-shaped building, with six-bay two-storey facets and six-bay three-storey terminal block to south. The Governor’s residence situated in the centre of the prison.
View Article1802 – Markree Castle, Co. Sligo
Architect: Francis Johnston The castle, as we see it today, dates from 1802 with exterior changes by the architect Francis Johnston and with some changes made,
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