County Sligo Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About County Sligo
Ancient Ireland's skies and mountaintops thundered to the conflicts of the gods and other supernatural beings, according toIrish legends, such as the Second Battle of Moytura fought east ofBallymote. Almost as powerful and quarrelsome were the mortal races of warriors and heroes that followed, such as Queen Méabh or Maeve (Shakespeare's Queen Mab), who fled from Ulster into Connacht there to battle with all and sundry, and to lay any likely man left over. Alas she was killed by a sling-shotted piece of cheese, an iconoclastic first. Tis said Maeve is buried on top of Knocknarea near Sligo town - her legend is from the Ulster Cycle supposedly set in the first century AD; the real burial monuments on Knocknarea are 3000 years older. Another body of legend, the Fenian or Ossianic Cycle, is mo
County Sligo Travel Guide Sections
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