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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.
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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 and Long Branch ( both tributaries of the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River ) flow through the area.
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 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 rises
The Moy rises at the foot of the Ox Mountains in County Sligo.
Sligo and trail
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.
Sligo and runs
Feda O ' Donnell runs private buses to Sligo from Bundoran as well.
* River Moy, a river which runs through County Sligo and County Mayo in Ireland
The R296 road is a regional road in Ireland that runs from Ballymote to Quarryfield all in County Sligo.
The N15 runs closer to the coastline in County Sligo, passing through Castlegal, Cliffoney and Grange as it proceeds southwest.
The N15 runs for over in County Sligo, passing north of the mountains and around Benbulbin before turning around Drumcliffe Bay to enter Sligo Town.
Sligo and from
In 1835, Governor Sligo arrived in Cayman from Jamaica to declare all slaves free in accordance with the Emancipation Act of 1833.
** Sligo fiddling from northern Connacht, which like Donegal fiddling tends to be fast, but with a bouncier feel to the bowing.
In 1556 King ’ s County and Queen ’ s County were created and the Kingdom of Connacht was broken up into the counties of Galway, Mayo and Sligo, while Leitrim was separated from Roscommon in 1565.
His early pictures are simple lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures, predominantly from the west of Ireland — especially of his boyhood home of Sligo.
* The Luigne, a people who inhabited Counties Meath and Sligo, claimed descent from him.
His mother, Susan Mary Pollexfen, came from a wealthy merchant family in the county town Sligo, County Sligo, who owned a milling and shipping business.
Category: People from County Sligo
Each of 28 county boards takes control of its own affairs ( all of the Irish counties except Fermanagh, Leitrim and Sligo ), with the number of clubs ranging from 58 in Cork to one in Leitrim.
* Although eight counties do not compete at adult level: Donegal, Fermanagh, Kerry, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo and Sligo do not compete at adult level, clubs from Fermanagh, Kerry and Mayo have won honours and Donegal have contested divisional finals at under-14 Feile na nGael level.
*' Alan Pipes-The Warm Up ' by Sligo uilleann piper Alan Roberts ( Download from iTunes )
The N4 ( M4 ) from Dublin to Sligo travels along the north of the county by-passing the towns of Leixlip, Maynooth and Kilcock.
It forms part of a huge complex of Stone Age remains connecting Carrowkeel in South Sligo to the Ox Mountains, to the Cuil Irra Peninsula, where Queen Maeve's tomb dominates the skyline from the crest of Knocknarea Mountain.
On the more contemporary music scene there are Westlife, Tabby Callaghan and The Conway Sisters who are from Sligo.
His father, Arthur Hyde, whose family were originally from Castlehyde, Fermoy, County Cork, was Church of Ireland rector of Kilmactranny, County Sligo from 1852 to 1867, and it was here that Hyde spent his early years.
Category: People from County Sligo
In the Irish Confederate Wars ( 1641 – 1653 ), the town was held by Irish Confederate troops until it was taken late in 1650 by Charles Coote, who attacked the town from the west, having crossed into Connacht at Sligo.
Category: People from County Sligo
In 1990, Limerick East TD Jim Kemmy's Democratic Socialist Party merged into the Labour party and in 1992 Sligo – Leitrim TD Declan Bree's Independent Socialist Party also joined the Labour Party ( in May 2007 Declan Bree resigned from the Labour Party over differences with the Leadership ).
In 1929 he resigned from the Army and was elected at a by-election to Dáil Éireann for the Leitrim – Sligo constituency.
A tale from the eighteenth century tells of a woman who on trying to catch a runaway cow, follows it into the cave and emerges miles away in Keshcorran, Co. Sligo.
Category: Politicians from County Sligo
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