Dedicated to Sligo
Subtitle: thirty-four essays on Sligo's past
By: edited by Martin A. Timoney
Publisher: Publishing Sligo's Past
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ballymote, Co. Sligo, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780957554702; 9780957554719
Subjects: Antiquities; History
Notes: LC copy signed by the editor.

Includes list of sponsors and subscribers (pages 303-304).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Archaeological Survey of Ireland : County Sligo  -- Paul Walsh; title: Prehistoric farming at Lough Dargan, north Sligo and its impact on the terrestrial environment  -- Beatrice Ghilardi and Michael O'Connell; title: A high-resolution palaeoecological reconstruction of landscape change and human development during the fourth millennium BC in the Carrowkeel/Keshcorran area, County Sligo  -- Susann Stolze, Walter Dörfler and Oliver Nelle; title: From restaurant to take-away : placing Sligo Shell Middens in context  -- Peter C. Woodman and Nicky Milner; title: 'The inns at Sligo are better than those at Auray ... and the scenery far more beautiful' : Carrowmore re-visited  -- Robert Hensey and Stefan Bergh; title: A beaker sherd from Churchfield, Dromahaire, Co. Leitrim  -- Helen Roche; title: Prehistoric gold from County Sligo  -- Mary Cahill; title: Bronze age activity in Ballincar, Co. Sligo  -- Richard Crumlish; title: Counterfeits and heirlooms : the story of a stone bead necklace from Caltragh, Co. Sligo  -- Ed Danaher, Alison Sheridan and Steve Linnane; title: The archaeology and mythology of the Keash Caves, Co. Sligo  -- Marion Dowd; title: Cormac's Well, Cloonagh, Keash, Co. Sligo  -- Martin A. Timoney; title: The real cause of the battle of Cúl Dreimne in Co. Sligo, the so-called 'Battle of the Book'  -- Brian Lacey; title: Animals date the Drumcliff Cross  -- Peter Harbison; title: Sligeach : the original and correct name of Sligo  -- Nollaig Ó Muraíle; title: Further thoughts on Richard de Burgh's Castle at Sligo  -- Tadhg O'Keeffe; title: The 17th century town defences at Union Street : Emmet Place, Sligo  -- Eoin Halpin and Giles Dawkes; title: The O'Connor Sligo memorial, Sligo Castle, Quay St., Sligo  -- Martin A. Timoney; title: The O'Connor Sligo monument at Sligo Abbey and Aylmer monument at Donadea, Co. Kildare  -- Martin A. Timoney; title: The will of Eleanor Butler, Countess of Desmond, 5th Sept., 1636 -- -- Martin A. Timoney; title: Hints towards a natural and topographical history of the County of Sligoe, by The Rev. William Henry, 1739  -- Martin A. Timoney; title: Héinrí Mac Carraic, alias Henry MacCarrick : eighteenth-century Gaelic scribe (and merchant) of High Street, Sligo  -- Nollaig Ó Muraíle; title: Estate, kin and loyalty : the Taaffe family and their property in eighteenth-century Sligo  -- David A. Fleming; title: Hazelwood House, Sligo's first and most important palladian house  -- Wendy Lyons; title: Rev. Martin Sherlock, c. 1747-1797, author and traveller, Castleconnor, Kilglass and Skreen, Co. Sligo  -- Mary B. Timoney; title: William Higgins, 1762/3-1825, Sligo's unacknowledged scientist of the atom  -- John O'Dea; title: Last of the windjammers : sail powered fishing boats of the North Sligo Coast  -- Joe McGowan; title: God in the bottle : a popular folk craft object  -- Jim Higgins; title: The work of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland, 1888 to 1934, in Sligo  -- Mary B. Timoney; title: History of John Meldrum & Sons Limited, founded 1871, 29 Castle Street, Sligo  -- Felicity McNab; title: Patrick Cleary of Owenykeevan, Easky, Co. Sligo, a tradition bearer  -- Albert Siggins; title: A note on the name of the townland and civil parish of Toomour, Co. Sligo  -- Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich; title: 'Here you are sombody' : the Sligo relatives of W.B. Yeats  -- Joyce Raftery Enright; title: Michael Gilbride's discovery : photographs of Sligo shop fronts from the early twentieth century  -- Bernadette Gilbride; title: Mapping Sligo into the twenty-first century : a review article -- Jim Foran.