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Sligo Creek and Long Branch ( both tributaries of the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River ) flow through the area.
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Sligo and Creek
The church purchased fifty acres of land along Sligo Creek in Takoma Park to build the new headquarters.
The majority of the city's population remain tenants, many of whom live in a cluster of high-rise and mid-rise apartment buildings surrounding Sligo Creek, which cuts a deep valley through the community.
Sligo Creek Park and the Sligo Creek Trail bisect the area.
The " trace " wound from Sligo southwest to the Ephraim Bressie Farm on Spring Creek north of Salem.
The Sligo furnace was built on Crooked Creek and produced 60 to 80 tons of pig iron a day with some runs of up to 100 tons.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the place has a total area of, all land, although Sligo Creek and several drainage ponds are located in the area.
Sligo Creek rises in Kemp Mill, and the hiker-biker trail that runs alongside the creek from Wheaton Regional Park to the Anacostia River passes through the community.
Sligo is set in the valley of Licking Creek and its tributaries and is surrounded by rolling hills.
In 1935, however, Montgomery Blair High School opened at 313 Wayne Avenue, a location overlooking Sligo Creek, now occupied by Silver Spring International Middle School.
* Sligo Creek, a tributary of the Anacostia River in Maryland
A creek that runs through Takoma Park, Sligo Creek, possibly served as further inspiration.
Tributaries of these sources include Sligo Creek, Paint Branch, Little Paint Branch, Indian Creek ; Upper Beaverdam Creek, Dueling Branch, and Brier Ditch.
Squeezing past Argyle Park and Sligo Creek Golf Course, the Beltway interchanges with MD 97 northwest of Silver Spring, then follows an alignment formerly known as Rock Creek Parkway.
* Baltimore and Washington Transit Company ( from Takoma Station to the Wildwood Hotel on Sligo Creek in Takoma Park, Maryland )
According to one legend, Chief Powhatan, returning homeward from a battle near what is now Philadelphia, stopped at the Big Spring on Sligo Creek ( present-day Takoma Park, Maryland near Washington, DC ) to recuperate from his wounds in the medicinal waters there.
Sligo and Long
Long after, the hole filled with water and became a lake which is now known as Loch na Súl, or " Lake of the Eye ", which is to be found in County Sligo.
Sligo and Branch
In 1965, Doherty became a member of the Garda Síochána ( Irish police force ) and served as a Detective in Sligo before joining the Special Branch in Dublin in the early 1970s.
Sligo and both
Some claim that an Irish captain named Peter O ' Connor named Coney Island in the 18th century, after an island in Sligo Bay known as both Coney Island and Inishmulclohy.
In 1967 he made his first move into politics when he secured election to both Sligo Borough Council and Sligo County Council.
Former world champion Ross Kearney won both the 2010 Mirror European championships at Sligo Yacht Club, and the 2011 Mirror World Championship held in Albany, Western Australia, with current crew Max Odell.
He engaged the Norman lord Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Lord of Offaly, in battle at Credan in the north of what is now County Sligo in 1257 in which both were badly wounded-Fitzgerald immediately fatally so.
It refers to two separate places, both in Connacht: the first near Cong, County Mayo on the border with County Galway ; the second by Lough Arrow in County Sligo.
Tubbercurry or Tobercurry () is the second-largest town in terms of both population and land area in County Sligo, Ireland.
He competed at the Sligo Feis Ceoil in 1909 and again in 1910, and was placed joint third on both occasions.
The Dublin Supporters Club ( DSC ) is another prominent supporters club, as are the South Sligo Supporters Club and the North Sligo Supporters Club, both of which take part in fundraising work within their catchment areas and regularly organise buses to Rovers games both home and away.
From 1977 to 1981 it included parts of County Donegal, but from 1981 until its abolition in 2007 it was again a 4 seat constituency, covering the whole of both counties including the towns of Sligo and Carrick-on-Shannon and many other areas.
Kieran Doherty and Paddy Agnew won seats in Cavan – Monaghan and Louth respectively, while both Joe McDonnell and Martin Hurson narrowly missed election in Sligo – Leitrim and Longford-Westmeath.
This territory was previously represented through the constituencies of Longford – Roscommon and Sligo – Leitrim, both of which were abolished in 2007.
Collooney is located just off the N4 ( Dublin to Sligo ) and N17 ( Sligo to Galway ) roads, having been bypassed twice, by the N4 in 1998, and the N17 in 1992, and is the meeting point of both roads.
Clissmann was married to Elizabeth " Budge " Mulcahy of Sligo, a friend of both Ryan and Leopold Kerney.
Sligo and Northwest
The other primary routes served are the N2 to Derry / Monaghan, N3 to Navan / Cavan / Northwest, N4 / M4 to Galway / Sligo, N7 / M7 ( M8 ) to Cork / Limerick / Waterford, and the N11 / M11 to Wexford.
* 07 — Northwest including Counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal: e. g.: ( 071 ) Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon and Bundoran, ( 074 ) Letterkenny, Ballybofey, Glenties.
Sligo and River
Beach-heads considered in Green included the Waterford-Wexford sector ( favoured ), the estuary of the River Shannon near Limerick, Galway Bay, Donegal Bay with Killala, Ballina and Sligo, Lough Foyle with Derry, the ' Bay of Belfast ' ( Belfast Lough ), and Cobh in Cork.
In the previous year, they had retreated behind the River Shannon, which acted as an enormous moat around the province of Connacht, with strongholds at Sligo, Athlone and Limerick guarding the routes into Connacht.
River Moy at Banada in County Sligo
* River Moy, a river which runs through County Sligo and County Mayo in Ireland
It is about 8 km or 5 miles long and 2 km or 1 mile wide, and drains into the River Garavogue near Sligo Town.
It is located at a bridging point of the River Unshin ( Arrow ), about 19 km south of Sligo town and 4 km east of the N4.
It is situated 6 km east of Carrick-on-Shannon on the River Shannon and is located off the N4 National primary route which links Dublin and Sligo.
The River Drowes denotes the border between County Leitrim and County Donegal and the River Duff forms the border between County Leitrim and County Sligo.
Sligo and through
Navan was a railway crossroads, with the GNR ( I ) line from Drogheda to Oldcastle and the MGWR line from Kingscourt to Clonsilla ( on the Dublin to Sligo line ) passing through the town, connecting at Navan Junction.
In 2008-09 the Jes captained by Shane Conneely showed their current strength at this level and marched through to another Senior Cup Final where the met a strong Sligo Grammar School who they beat narrowly by 10-3 to record their 11th vicory in this competition and move up to third in the all time winners list.
A railway right of way exists from Limerick, up through the west, to Sligo.
There is currently a campaign underway to open the western rail corridor through Claremorris linking Limerick to Sligo.
In August 1989, The Waterboys ' frontman Mike Scott produced the band's first single, " N17 ," a song about an Irish emigrant longing to be driving on the N17 national route which connects Galway with Co. Mayo and Co. Sligo, psssing through the Saw Doctors ' hometown of Tuam.
Services to Sligo were transferred to Westland Row ( Pearse Stn ) running non-stop through the station in 1937, with the closure of Broadstone Station by CIÉ ( see also MGWR ).
From Leenaun, the Mayo section of the trail climbs over Sheefry Bridge, then down into Westport, then on through Newport, Sheskin, Ballycastle, Killala, Ballina, ending at Lough Talt in the Ox Mountains near the Sligo border.
This is what sets Sligo Rovers apart from other clubs, the strong community loyalty, the fierce pride people have in their club and the sense of loyalty has passed on through generations of Rovers supporters. Other factors contributed to the unique aura of the Showgrounds – its working class setting in one of Sligo's oldest communities, the sense of the Showgrounds being one of Irish soccer's most resilient outposts.
They were originally planned for use on the Mullingar to Sligo mail trains, however they were poor steamers and proved to be underpowered for this work being transferred soon afterwards to the Westport – Achill branch line in western County Mayo — a highly scenic line which passed through the small town of Newport and the village of Mallaranny before reaching the western seaboard at Achill Sound.
The route passes through Charlestown and over the Sligo border into the village of Bellaghy.
Section through Co. Sligo
Until the early 1980s, the N83 through Dunmore was on the main road from Sligo to Galway City.
Popular attractions include Creveelea Abbey ( found a short distance across the foot bridge found behind the hotel ), the Tour De Humbert Cycling Trail ( which passes through the village ), Ard Nahoo Health Farm, Parke's Castle situated beside Lough Gill on the Sligo-Dromahair road ( R286, 5 km NW of the village ) and the Wild Rose Waterbus which offers tours of Lough Gill between Sligo and Parke's Castle.
Until 1996 the main N4 Dublin to Sligo road passed through the village which was then bypassed.
En route it passes through three towns, Ballymote and Gorteen in County Sligo and Ballaghaderreen in County Roscommon.
and proceeds Northeast through Donegal, connecting Sligo to Lifford.
Tullaghan is the only town along the N15 in Leitrim, as the route passes into County Sligo shortly after, having run through Leitrim for just a few kilometres.
The N15 runs closer to the coastline in County Sligo, passing through Castlegal, Cliffoney and Grange as it proceeds southwest.
The route ends at the start of the N4, which continues through the town as the Sligo Inner Relief Road dual carriageway.
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