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1 Digital content from: Irih Hitoric Town Atla (IHTA), no. 24, Sligo Author: Fióna Gallagher and Marie-Louie Legg Editor: Anngret Simm,, Raymond Gillepie, Conultant editor: J.H. Andrew Cartographic editor: Sarah Gearty Editorial aitant: Angela Murphy, Jennnifer Moore Printed and publihed in 2012 by the Royal Irih Academy, 19 Dawon Street, Dublin 2 Map prepared in aociation with the Ordnance Survey Ireland and Land and Property Service Northern Ireland The content of thi digital edition of Irih Hitoric Town Atla no. 24, Sligo, i regitered under a Creative Common Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International Licene. Referencing the digital edition Pleae enure that you acknowledge thi reource, crediting thi pdf following thi example: Introduction. In Fióna Gallagher and Marie-Louie Legg, Irih Hitoric Town Atla, no. 24, Sligo. Royal Irih Academy, Dublin, 2012 ( acceed 4 February 2016), cover, p 2. Acknowledgement (digital edition) Digitiation: Eneclann Ltd Digital editor: Anne Roenbuch Original copyright: Royal Irih Academy Irih Hitoric Town Atla Digital Working Group: Sarah Gearty, Keith Lilley, Jennifer Moore, Rachel Murphy, Paul Walh, Digital Repoitory of Ireland: Rebecca Grant Royal Irih Academy IT Department: Wayne Aherne, Derek Cograve For further information, pleae viit

2 Page General abbreviation The topographical development of Sligo 1 Topographical information 1 Name 2 Legal tatu 3 Parliamentary tatu 4 Proprietorial tatu 5 Municipal boundary 6 Adminitrative location 7 Adminitrative diviion Population 9 Houing 10 Street 11 Religion 12 Defence 13 Adminitration Primary production 15 Manufacturing 16 Trade and ervice 17 Tranport 1 Utilitie 19 Health 20 Education 21 Entertainment, memorial and ocietie Reidence Bibliography 26 Note on Map 2 Acknowledgement Map 5 Baxter, c Map 2 Recontruction, Illutration Text figure 1 Medieval Sligo 2 Late eventeenth-century Sligo 3 Valuation, 15 Map, view and photograph of Sligo (looe heet) Map 1 Ordnance Survey, 17, 1:50,000 2 Recontruction, 137, 1: Ordnance Survey, 2009, 1: Map, Baxter, c Down Survey, c Plate 1 Phillip, c. 165 Map 7 Luttrell, 169 Armtrong, c Taylor and Skinner, Larkin, Williamon, Larcom, Town plan, 137 Fair plan, Young, Town plan, Growth, to 1910 Plate 2 View, looking north, c View, looking outh, c High Street, c O Connell Street, c Sligo from the air, 2006 Legend heet By FIÓNA GALLAGHER and MARIE-LOUISE LEGG EDITORS Anngret Simm Raymond Gillepie The Royal Irih Academy i grateful to Sligo County Council for funding toward production and reearch. Sligo Borough Council Comhairle Bhuirg Shligigh CONSULTANT EDITOR J.H. Andrew Sligo County Council Comhairle Chontae Shligigh Fig 1 3; Map 17 drawn by Sarah Gearty and Anne Roenbuch. Cartography of Map 1, 3 Ordnance Survey Ireland/Government of Ireland Copyright Permit No. MP ; Map 2 by Land and Property Service Northern Ireland. illutration: View of Sligo, looking north, c. 165, by Thoma Phillip (Phillip view). Printed by W.G. Baird Ltd. Royal Irih Academy 2012 Map 16 Town plan, 175 Preface and introduction No. 24 Extract from elected map contained in Irih Hitoric Town Atla, no. 24, Sligo Iri R h al it h ic T Ac o w ad n em A CONTENTS Royal Irih Academy 19 Dawon Street, Dublin CARTOGRAPHIC EDITOR Sarah Gearty EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Angela Murphy, Jennifer Moore Map prepared in aociation with Ordnance Survey Ireland and Land and Property Service Northern Ireland Royal Irih Academy

3 CONTENTS Page Preface and introduction General abbreviation The topographical development of Sligo 1 Topographical information 1 Name 2 Legal tatu 3 Parliamentary tatu 4 Proprietorial tatu 5 Municipal boundary 6 Adminitrative location 7 Adminitrative diviion Population 9 Houing 10 Street 11 Religion 12 Defence 13 Adminitration Primary production 15 Manufacturing 16 Trade and ervice 17 Tranport 1 Utilitie 19 Health 20 Education 21 Entertainment, memorial and ocietie Reidence Bibliography 26 Note on Map 2 Acknowledgement Map 5 Baxter, c Map 2 Recontruction, 137 Ir R ih al it h ic Ac To ad wn em A Text figure 1 Medieval Sligo 2 Late eventeenth-century Sligo 3 Valuation, 15 Map, view and photograph of Sligo (looe heet) Map 1 Ordnance Survey, 17, 1:50,000 2 Recontruction, 137, 1: Ordnance Survey, 2009, 1: Map, Baxter, c Down Survey, c Plate 1 Phillip, c. 165 Map 7 Luttrell, 169 Armtrong, c Taylor and Skinner, Larkin, Williamon, Larcom, Town plan, 137 Fair plan, Young, Town plan, Growth, to 1910 Plate 2 View, looking north, c View, looking outh, c High Street, c O Connell Street, c Sligo from the air, 2006 Legend heet By FIÓNA GALLAGHER and MARIE-LOUISE LEGG EDITORS Anngret Simm Raymond Gillepie The Royal Irih Academy i grateful to Sligo County Council for funding toward production and reearch. CONSULTANT EDITOR J.H. Andrew Sligo County Council Comhairle Chontae Shligigh Fig 1 3; Map 17 drawn by Sarah Gearty and Anne Roenbuch. Cartography of Map 1, 3 Ordnance Survey Ireland/Government of Ireland Copyright Permit No. MP ; Map 2 by Land and Property Service Northern Ireland. illutration: View of Sligo, looking north, c. 165, by Thoma Phillip (Phillip view). Printed by W.G. Baird Ltd. Royal Irih Academy 2012 Map 16 Town plan, Illutration Sligo Borough Council Comhairle Bhuirg Shligigh No. 24 Extract from elected map contained in Irih Hitoric Town Atla, no. 24, Sligo Royal Irih Academy 19 Dawon Street, Dublin CARTOGRAPHIC EDITOR Sarah Gearty EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Angela Murphy, Jennifer Moore Map prepared in aociation with Ordnance Survey Ireland and Land and Property Service Northern Ireland Royal Irih Academy

4 of the many countrie and region where hitoric town atlae have been publihed ince. Among thee countrie Ireland with it Irih Hitoric Town Atla ha produced a model in thi repect. AFM ALC Ghent, 1995 Adriaan Verhult Preident of the International Commiion for the Hitory of Town Ann. Clon. Ann. Conn. Ann. Inif. Ann. Tig. AU 1, 2 INTRODUCTION It wa in a pirit of co-operation after the econd world war that in 1955 the International Commiion for the Hitory of Town recommended the publication of a erie of European national hitoric town atlae to encourage a better undertanding of common European root and to facilitate comparative urban tudie. Since then facicle for c. 460 town and citie in eventeen European countrie have been publihed, more or le on the line recommended by the Commiion. Thi volume i part of Ireland contribution to the cheme. At an interdiciplinary ympoium on Irih town and medieval Europe, organied in 197 by the Board of Medieval Studie in Univerity College, Dublin, the idea of an Irih hitoric town atla wa firt publicly dicued following a lecture by Heinz Stoob from Münter on the German town atla project. In June 191 the Council of the Royal Irih Academy agreed to publih the Irih Hitoric Town Atla and the government of the Republic of Ireland ubequently provided fund for the employment of a cartographic editor. The joint editor of the firt four facicle were J.H. Andrew (Department of Geography, Trinity College, Dublin) and Anngret Simm (Department of Geography, Univerity College, Dublin). H.B. Clarke (Department of Medieval Hitory, Univerity College, Dublin) wa appointed a an additional editor in 1990, Raymond Gillepie (Department of Hitory, National Univerity of Ireland Maynooth) in 1994, and Jacinta Prunty (Department of Hitory, National Univerity of Ireland Maynooth) in 200. John Andrew retired a editor and became conultant editor in K.M. Davie wa cartographic editor and project co-ordinator from 191 to On her retirement Sarah Gearty wa appointed to the poition. Angela Murphy became editorial aitant to the project in Angela Byrne wa with the project taff from 2003 to 2010 and Jennifer Moore joined the team in The editorial board ha been complemented by an editorial committee in which the editor have been joined over a period of time by Terry Barry (Department of Medieval Hitory, Trinity College, Dublin), John Bradley (Department of Hitory, National Univerity of Ireland Maynooth), M.J.D. Brand (former Director, Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland), Mary Clark (City Archivit, Dublin City Library and Archive), M.E. Daly (College of Art and Celtic Studie, Univerity College, Dublin), Richard Haworth (formerly of the Department of Geography, Trinity College, Dublin), A.A. Horner (formerly of School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, Univerity College, Dublin), Richard Kirwan (former Director, Ordnance Survey Ireland), Tomá Ó Carragáin (Department of Archaeology, Univerity College Cork), Philip Robinon (formerly of the Ulter Folk and Tranport Mueum), Geraldine Ruane (Chief Executive, Ordnance Survey Ireland), Katharine Simm (formerly of Department of Medieval Hitory, Trinity College, Dublin), Matthew Stout (Department of Hitory, St Patrick College, Drumcondra) and Kevin Whelan (Univerity of Notre Dame). The atla i indebted to Ordnance Survey Ireland and Land and Property Service (formerly Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland) for practical upport from their repective intitution. Valuable aitance ha alo been received from the taff of the Royal Irih Academy. The editorial board i grateful to the Heritage Council, the Marc Fitch Fund (Oxford) and the Luther I. Replogle Foundation (Wahington D.C.) for on-going upport in the preparation of the atla. The atla ha been planned a a erie of facicle, one or more for each town or city in a election repreenting variou ize-categorie, variou region of the country from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and variou period of origin, growth and change, with ome bia in favour of the medieval period but not excluding the etate town, indutrial town and reort town characteritic of more modern time. Large citie are divided chronologically according to available cartographic ource. The principal map in each facicle i a large-cale (1:2500) repreentation of the town a it i believed to have tood at a period a cloe a poible to 0. The recontruction i baed on the manucript town plan made by the Ordnance Survey in and on the manucript map compiled at the ame time or oon afterward by the General Valuation Office. Ue i alo made of urviving contemporary etate map and, where neceary, of the earliet (133 46) publihed Ordnance Survey map at ix inche to one mile (1:10,560). The recontruction include building, treet, road, path, yard, garden, orchard, park, field and urface watercoure. Contemporary name are ued wherever poible. The bae map on which thee data are aembled i the mot accurate available nineteenth-century town plan, which in mot cae i the one publihed by the Ordnance Survey on a cale of either 1:1056 or 1:500 at ome time during the period A econd map how the town in it mid-nineteenth-century etting at 1:50,000. Thi ha been prepared from the firt (155 95) edition of the one inch to one mile (1:63,360) Ordnance Survey map of Ireland. The third map common to all facicle i a modern Ordnance Survey town plan at 1:5000. A election of facimile map i included, ome with their accompanying reference table. Where poible there are alo growth map and large cale ingle period map recontructing ignificant phae of development before the end of the nineteenth century. Other graphic material include the town armorial bearing, if any, a modern air photograph and facimile of early view. The text accompanying the map comprie an introductory eay, topographical information on the town a a whole and it component part, elected documentary and literary extract where appropriate, and a bibliography. The map and topographical information are derived directly from primary ource and to that extent are le likely to become out of date. But reader may alo expect to be given an interpretation of the ource, and thi i the role of the introductory eay. Each town i decribed in relation to it phyical ite and etting, and it development i reviewed in chronological equence from the beginning of urban life to the end of the nineteenth century, with a brief indication of it twentieth-century hitory. In the cae of large citie, thi i done over a erie of linked part. The eay i intended to deal primarily with the form and layout of the town a expreed in the accompanying map. Individual building may receive attention a topographical entitie, but the atla doe not uurp the function of an archaeological or architectural urvey. In the ame pirit, political and ocio-economic factor are introduced in o far a they eem relevant to an undertanding of the towncape and not a end in themelve. The bibliography lit important item devoted to a ingle town or city for the period, epecially thoe of topographical relevance, and i not necearily confined to work cited in the footnote. Other ource mentioned in the footnote are not eparately tabulated, except where their title have been abbreviated in a way that require explanation. Abbreviation of more general application are lited inide the back cover of each facicle. Grid reference follow the Irih Grid co-ordinate ytem a hown on current paper Ordnance Survey map, and throughout the atla placename are pelt a in the map of Ordnance Survey Ireland or Land and Property Service Northern Ireland. Finally the atla expree the belief that large-cale plan contitute the bet kind of ource material for a comparative analyi of the topography of European town, whether a a tarting point for retropective topographical reearch or a a bai for tudying the change aociated with modern urban expanion. A uch, it i proving ueful not only to tudent and teacher of hitory, geography, archaeology and architecture, but alo to planner, conervationit and local government officer, and thu directly or indirectly to all reident and viitor in the town or citie concerned. BL Bodl. Boundary com. rept Cal. Carew MSS Cal. chart. roll Cal. doc. Ire. Cal. jutic. roll Ire. Cal. papal letter Annála ríoghachta Éireann: Annal of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Mater, from the earliet period to the year Ed. John O Donovan. 7 vol. Dublin, 151. The Annal of Loch Cé: a chronicle of Irih affair from A.D. 10 to A.D Ed. W.M. Henney. 2 vol. London, 171. The Annal of Clonmacnoie, being annal of Ireland from the earliet period to A.D. 0, tranlated into Englih, A.D. 16, by Conell Mageoghagan. Ed. Deni Murphy. Dublin, 196. Annála Connacht: the Annal of Connacht (A.D ). Ed. A.M. Freeman. Dublin, The Annal of Inifallen (MS Rawlinon B 503). Ed. Seán Mac Airt. Dublin, The Annal of Tigernach. Ed. Whitley Stoke. Facimile reprint from Revue Celtique, xvi xviii (195 7). 2 vol. Lampeter, (1) Annála Uladh, Annal of Ulter : a chronicle of Irih affair, 431 to Ed. W.M. Henney and Bartholomew MacCarthy. 4 vol. 2nd ed. Dublin, 199; (2) The Annal of Ulter (to A.D. 1131), pt 1, Text and tranlation. Ed. Seán Mac Airt and Gearóid Mac Niocaill. Dublin, 193. Britih Library, London. Bodleian Library, Oxford. Municipal boundarie commiion (Ireland), pt III, Report and evidence. HC 11 [C.309], 1. Calendar of the Carew manucript preerved in the archiepicopal library at Lambeth, [etc.]. 6 vol. London, Calendar of the charter roll, [etc]. 6 vol. London, Calendar of document relating to Ireland, [etc.]. 5 vol. London, Calendar of the juticiary roll or proceeding in the court of the juticiar of Ireland, [etc.]. 3 vol. Dublin, Calendar of entrie in the papal regiter relating to Great Britain and Ireland: papal letter, [etc.]. London and Dublin, 193. Calendar of the patent roll, [etc]. London, Calendar of the patent and cloe roll of chancery in Ireland. 3 vol. Dublin, Irih patent roll of Jame I: facimile of the Irih record commiioner calendar prepared prior to 130. IMC, Dublin, Calendar of the tate paper relating to Ireland, [etc.]. 24 vol. London, Calendar of treaury book. 32 vol. London, A cenu of Ireland circa Ed. Séamu Pender. IMC, Dublin, 1939; 2nd ed., Printed cenu report (for full reference ee W.E. Vaughan and A.J. Fitzpatrick, Irih hitorical tatitic (Dublin, 197), pp ). Unpublihed cenu return, NAI. Chartae, privilegia et immunitate, being trancript of charter and privilege to citie, town, abbey, and other bodie corporate. Dublin, Chronicum Scotorum: a chronicle of Irih affair to A.D. 1135, with a upplement from 11 to Ed. W.M. Henney. London, 166. Church of Ireland. Journal of the houe of common of the kingdom of Ireland. Printed in four erie (for full lit ee H.D. Gribbon, Journal of the Irih houe of common, An Leabharlann: the Irih Library, 2nd er., ii (195), pp 52 5). The civil urvey, A.D Ed. R.C. Simington. 10 vol. IMC, Dublin, Report from the commiioner of the board of education in Ireland. HC 113 (47), v. Report of the commiioner for enquiring into the endowed chool in Ireland. HC 157 [2336], xxii, pt iv; 11 [231], xxxv, pt i. Excavation 1969: ummary account of archaeological excavation in Ireland [etc.]. Dublin and Bray, , 195. Available at (lat acceed Oct. 2011). Extent of Irih monatic poeion, , from manucript in the Public Record Office, London. Ed. N.B. White. IMC, Dublin, Report of the commiioner appointed to inquire into the tate of the fair and market in Ireland. HC [1674], xli. Calendar of fiant of Henry VIII Elizabeth. In PRI rept D.K. 7. Dublin, Reprinted Gwynn and Hadcock HC IAA IHS IHTA IMC Ir. Builder Lewi Logainm Luca Mac Niocaill Mun. boundary rept Mun. corp. Ire. rept NAI NIAH intro./urvey NHI NLI OSM Parl. boundary rept a The Irih fiant of the Tudor overeign. 4 vol. Dublin, Gwynn, Aubrey and Hadcock, R.N. Medieval religiou houe: Ireland. London, Houe of common eional paper. Irih Architectural Archive, Dublin. Irih Hitorical Studie. Dublin, 193. Irih hitoric town atla. Ed. J.H. Andrew, Anngret Simm,, Raymond Gillepie and. Dublin, 196. Irih Manucript Commiion. The Irih Builder and Engineer. Dublin, 167. Formerly The Dublin Builder. Dublin, Lewi, Samuel. A topographical dictionary of Ireland. 2 vol with atla. London, 137. Logainm. Bunachar logainmneacha na héireann Placename databae of Ireland. Available at (lat acceed Oct. 2011). Luca, Richard. A general directory of the kingdom of Ireland. Dublin, 17. Mac Niocaill, Gearóid. Na buirgéií, xii xv aoi. 2 vol. Dublin, Municipal corporation boundarie (Ireland) report and plan. HC 137 (301), xxix. Municipal corporation (Ireland), appendice to the firt report of the commiioner. HC 135, xxvii, xxviii; 136, xxiv. National Archive of Ireland, Dublin. Formerly Public Record Office of Ireland. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. An introduction to the architectural heritage of County Meath [etc.]. Dublin, Survey available at (lat acceed Oct. 2011). A new hitory of Ireland. Ed. T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin, F.J. Byrne, and other. 9 vol. Oxford, National Library of Ireland, Dublin. Ordnance Survey memoir, RIA. Parliamentary repreentation: boundary report, Ireland. HC (519), xliii. The parliamentary gazetteer of Ireland. 3 vol. London, 6. Petty, William. Hiberniae delineatio quoad hactenu licuit perfectiima. [London], 165. Pigot national commercial directory of Ireland. Dublin, 124. Pratt, Henry. A map of the kingdom of Ireland newly corrected and improved with plan of the city and fortified town. London, [170]. Reprinted Dublin, [1732]. Royal commiion of inquiry, primary education (Ireland), vi, Educational cenu. Return howing the number of children actually preent in each primary chool on 25th June 16. HC 170 [C.6.v], xxviii, pt V. Firt [etc.] report of the deputy keeper of the public record in Ireland. Dublin, 169. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfat. Firt report of the commiioner on public intruction, Ireland. HC 135 [45, 46], xxxiii. Second report of the commiioner on public intruction, Ireland. HC 135 [47], xxxiv. Roman Catholic. Repreentative Church Body Library, Dublin. Regitry of Deed, Dublin, memorial of deed. Royal Irih Academy, Dublin (Proceeding of ). Dublin, 136. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquarie of Ireland. Dublin, 150. Slater national commercial directory of Ireland. Mancheter, 6, etc. The tatute at large paed in the parliament held in Ireland. vol. Dublin, Taylor, George and Skinner, Andrew. Map of the road of Ireland, urveyed in London and Dublin, 177. Trinity College, Dublin. Thom Irih almanac and official directory. Dublin, 4, etc. Thoma, Avril. The walled town of Ireland. 2 vol. Dublin, The National Archive: Public Record Office, Kew. Ulter Journal of Archaeology. Belfat, 153. Urban Archaeology Survey, National Monument Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Waton, John, and other. The gentleman and citizen almanack. Dublin, November 2011 Anngret Simm Raymond Gillepie Cal. pat. roll Cal. pat. roll Ire. Cal. pat. roll Ire., Ja I Cal. S.P. Ire. Cal. trea. bk Cenu, 1659 Cenu, 121 [etc.] Cenu return, 1901 [etc.] Chartae Chron. Scot. C. of I. Common jn. Ire. CS Education rept Endowed chool rept Excavation Extent Ir. mon. poeion Fair and market rept Fiant Parl. gaz. Petty Pigot Pratt Primary educ. return PRI rept D.K. 1 [etc.] PRONI Publ. intr. rept 1 Publ. intr. rept 2 RC RCB RD RIA/RIA Proc. RSAI Jn. Slater Stat. Ire. Taylor and Skinner TCD Thom Thoma TNA: PRO UJA Urb. Arch. Survey Waton Town publihed to date VOLUME I No. 1 KILDARE by J.H. Andrew No. 2 CARRICKFERGUS by Philip Robinon No. 3 BANDON by Patrick O Flanagan No. 4 KELLS by Anngret Simm with Katharine Simm No. 5 MULLINGAR by J.H. Andrew with K.M. Davie No. 6 ATHLONE by Harman Murtagh ISBN VOLUME II No. 7 MAYNOOTH by Arnold Horner No. DOWNPATRICK by R.H. Buchanan and Anthony Wilon No. 9 BRAY by K.M. Davie No. 10 KILKENNY by John Bradley No. 13 FETHARD by Tadhg O Keeffe No. TRIM by Mark Henney Urban hitory a it i practied today i much more than the local tudy of a particular town. A part of ocial and economic hitory it need a comparative approach. The topographical apect of town, the layout of treet, river and canal, the ite of public building and defence work and the general etting of the town in it geographical environment, are particularly well uited to uch a comparative approach. The International Commiion for the Hitory of Town, therefore, having recommended ince it foundation in 1955 the publication of hitoric town atlae in it member countrie, et out in 196 a number of guideline concerning the cale and content of the principal map to be included in thee atlae. The Commiion guideline have been followed more or le trictly by mot GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS Ir R ih al it h ic Ac To ad wn em A PREFACE ISBN No 1 10, 13, alo available a eparate facicle. No. 11 DUBLIN, part I, to 1610 by ISBN No. 12 BELFAST, part I, to 0 by Raymond Gillepie and Stephen A. Royle ISBN No. 15 DERRY~LONDONDERRY by Avril Thoma ISBN No. 16 DUNDALK by Harold O Sullivan ISBN No. 17 BELFAST, part II, 0 to 1900 by Stephen A. Royle ISBN No. 1 ARMAGH by Catherine McCullough and W.H. Crawford ISBN No. 19 DUBLIN, part II, 1610 to 1756 by Colm Lennon ISBN No. 20 TUAM by J.A. Claffey ISBN No. 21 LIMERICK by Eamon O Flaherty ISBN No. LONGFORD by Sarah Gearty, Martin Morri and Fergu O Ferrall ISBN No. 23 CARLINGFORD by Harold O Sullivan and Raymond Gillepie ISBN No. 24 by Fióna Gallagher and Marie-Louie Legg Britih Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Catalogue record available from the Britih Library ISBN

5 PREFACE Urban hitory a it i practied today i much more than the local tudy of a particular town. A part of ocial and economic hitory it need a comparative approach. The topographical apect of town, the layout of treet, river and canal, the ite of public building and defence work and the general etting of the town in it geographical environment, are particularly well uited to uch a comparative approach. The International Commiion for the Hitory of Town, therefore, having recommended ince it foundation in 1955 the publication of hitoric town atlae in it member countrie, et out in 196 a number of guideline concerning the cale and content of the principal map to be included in thee atlae. The Commiion guideline have been followed more or le trictly by mot GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS of the many countrie and region where hitoric town atlae have been publihed ince. Among thee countrie Ireland with it Irih Hitoric Town Atla ha produced a model in thi repect. AFM ALC Ghent, 1995 Adriaan Verhult Preident of the International Commiion for the Hitory of Town Ann. Clon. Ann. Conn. Ann. Inif. Ann. Tig. AU 1, 2 INTRODUCTION by the Ordnance Survey in and on the manucript map compiled at the ame time or oon afterward by the General Valuation Office. Ue i alo made of urviving contemporary etate map and, where neceary, of the earliet (133 46) publihed Ordnance Survey map at ix inche to one mile (1:10,560). The recontruction include building, treet, road, path, yard, garden, orchard, park, field and urface watercoure. Contemporary name are ued wherever poible. The bae map on which thee data are aembled i the mot accurate available nineteenth-century town plan, which in mot cae i the one publihed by the Ordnance Survey on a cale of either 1:1056 or 1:500 at ome time during the period A econd map how the town in it mid-nineteenth-century etting at 1:50,000. Thi ha been prepared from the firt (155 95) edition of the one inch to one mile (1:63,360) Ordnance Survey map of Ireland. The third map common to all facicle i a modern Ordnance Survey town plan at 1:5000. A election of facimile map i included, ome with their accompanying reference table. Where poible there are alo growth map and large cale ingle period map recontructing ignificant phae of development before the end of the nineteenth century. Other graphic material include the town armorial bearing, if any, a modern air photograph and facimile of early view. The text accompanying the map comprie an introductory eay, topographical information on the town a a whole and it component part, elected documentary and literary extract where appropriate, and a bibliography. The map and topographical information are derived directly from primary ource and to that extent are le likely to become out of date. But reader may alo expect to be given an interpretation of the ource, and thi i the role of the introductory eay. Each town i decribed in relation to it phyical ite and etting, and it development i reviewed in chronological equence from the beginning of urban life to the end of the nineteenth century, with a brief indication of it twentieth-century hitory. In the cae of large citie, thi i done over a erie of linked part. The eay i intended to deal primarily with the form and layout of the town a expreed in the accompanying map. Individual building may receive attention a topographical entitie, but the atla doe not uurp the function of an archaeological or architectural urvey. In the ame pirit, political and ocio-economic factor are introduced in o far a they eem relevant to an undertanding of the towncape and not a end in themelve. The bibliography lit important item devoted to a ingle town or city for the period, epecially thoe of topographical relevance, and i not necearily confined to work cited in the footnote. Other ource mentioned in the footnote are not eparately tabulated, except where their title have been abbreviated in a way that require explanation. Abbreviation of more general application are lited inide the back cover of each facicle. Grid reference follow the Irih Grid co-ordinate ytem a hown on current paper Ordnance Survey map, and throughout the atla placename are pelt a in the map of Ordnance Survey Ireland or Land and Property Service Northern Ireland. Finally the atla expree the belief that large-cale plan contitute the bet kind of ource material for a comparative analyi of the topography of European town, whether a a tarting point for retropective topographical reearch or a a bai for tudying the change aociated with modern urban expanion. A uch, it i proving ueful not only to tudent and teacher of hitory, geography, archaeology and architecture, but alo to planner, conervationit and local government officer, and thu directly or indirectly to all reident and viitor in the town or citie concerned. Iri R h al it h ic T Ac o w ad n em A It wa in a pirit of co-operation after the econd world war that in 1955 the International Commiion for the Hitory of Town recommended the publication of a erie of European national hitoric town atlae to encourage a better undertanding of common European root and to facilitate comparative urban tudie. Since then facicle for c. 460 town and citie in eventeen European countrie have been publihed, more or le on the line recommended by the Commiion. Thi volume i part of Ireland contribution to the cheme. At an interdiciplinary ympoium on Irih town and medieval Europe, organied in 197 by the Board of Medieval Studie in Univerity College, Dublin, the idea of an Irih hitoric town atla wa firt publicly dicued following a lecture by Heinz Stoob from Münter on the German town atla project. In June 191 the Council of the Royal Irih Academy agreed to publih the Irih Hitoric Town Atla and the government of the Republic of Ireland ubequently provided fund for the employment of a cartographic editor. The joint editor of the firt four facicle were J.H. Andrew (Department of Geography, Trinity College, Dublin) and Anngret Simm (Department of Geography, Univerity College, Dublin). H.B. Clarke (Department of Medieval Hitory, Univerity College, Dublin) wa appointed a an additional editor in 1990, Raymond Gillepie (Department of Hitory, National Univerity of Ireland Maynooth) in 1994, and Jacinta Prunty (Department of Hitory, National Univerity of Ireland Maynooth) in 200. John Andrew retired a editor and became conultant editor in K.M. Davie wa cartographic editor and project co-ordinator from 191 to On her retirement Sarah Gearty wa appointed to the poition. Angela Murphy became editorial aitant to the project in Angela Byrne wa with the project taff from 2003 to 2010 and Jennifer Moore joined the team in The editorial board ha been complemented by an editorial committee in which the editor have been joined over a period of time by Terry Barry (Department of Medieval Hitory, Trinity College, Dublin), John Bradley (Department of Hitory, National Univerity of Ireland Maynooth), M.J.D. Brand (former Director, Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland), Mary Clark (City Archivit, Dublin City Library and Archive), M.E. Daly (College of Art and Celtic Studie, Univerity College, Dublin), Richard Haworth (formerly of the Department of Geography, Trinity College, Dublin), A.A. Horner (formerly of School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, Univerity College, Dublin), Richard Kirwan (former Director, Ordnance Survey Ireland), Tomá Ó Carragáin (Department of Archaeology, Univerity College Cork), Philip Robinon (formerly of the Ulter Folk and Tranport Mueum), Geraldine Ruane (Chief Executive, Ordnance Survey Ireland), Katharine Simm (formerly of Department of Medieval Hitory, Trinity College, Dublin), Matthew Stout (Department of Hitory, St Patrick College, Drumcondra) and Kevin Whelan (Univerity of Notre Dame). The atla i indebted to Ordnance Survey Ireland and Land and Property Service (formerly Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland) for practical upport from their repective intitution. Valuable aitance ha alo been received from the taff of the Royal Irih Academy. The editorial board i grateful to the Heritage Council, the Marc Fitch Fund (Oxford) and the Luther I. Replogle Foundation (Wahington D.C.) for on-going upport in the preparation of the atla. The atla ha been planned a a erie of facicle, one or more for each town or city in a election repreenting variou ize-categorie, variou region of the country from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and variou period of origin, growth and change, with ome bia in favour of the medieval period but not excluding the etate town, indutrial town and reort town characteritic of more modern time. Large citie are divided chronologically according to available cartographic ource. The principal map in each facicle i a large-cale (1:2500) repreentation of the town a it i believed to have tood at a period a cloe a poible to 0. The recontruction i baed on the manucript town plan made BL Bodl. Boundary com. rept Cal. Carew MSS Cal. chart. roll Cal. doc. Ire. Cal. jutic. roll Ire. 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Cal. trea. bk Cenu, 1659 Cenu, 121 [etc.] Cenu return, 1901 [etc.] Chartae Chron. Scot. C. of I. Common jn. Ire. CS Education rept Endowed chool rept Excavation Extent Ir. mon. poeion Fair and market rept Fiant Parl. gaz. Petty Pigot Pratt Primary educ. return PRI rept D.K. 1 [etc.] PRONI Publ. intr. rept 1 Publ. intr. rept 2 RC RCB RD RIA/RIA Proc. RSAI Jn. Slater Stat. Ire. Taylor and Skinner TCD Thom Thoma TNA: PRO UJA Urb. Arch. Survey Waton Town publihed to date VOLUME I No. 1 KILDARE by J.H. Andrew No. 2 CARRICKFERGUS by Philip Robinon No. 3 BANDON by Patrick O Flanagan No. 4 KELLS by Anngret Simm with Katharine Simm No. 5 MULLINGAR by J.H. Andrew with K.M. Davie No. 6 ATHLONE by Harman Murtagh ISBN VOLUME II No. 7 MAYNOOTH by Arnold Horner No. DOWNPATRICK by R.H. Buchanan and Anthony Wilon No. 9 BRAY by K.M. Davie No. 10 KILKENNY by John Bradley No. 13 FETHARD by Tadhg O Keeffe No. TRIM by Mark Henney ISBN No 1 10, 13, alo available a eparate facicle. 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6 Page Preface and introduction General abbreviation The topographical development of Sligo Bibliography 26 Note on Map 2 Acknowledgement 25 Illutration Text figure 1 Medieval Sligo 2 Late eventeenth-century Sligo 3 Valuation, 15 Map, view and photograph of Sligo (looe heet) Map 1 Ordnance Survey, 17, 1:50,000 2 Recontruction, 137, 1: Ordnance Survey, 2009, 1: Map, Baxter, c Down Survey, c Plate 1 Phillip, c. 165 Map 7 Luttrell, 169 Armtrong, c Taylor and Skinner, Larkin, Williamon, Larcom, Town plan, 137 Fair plan, Young, Town plan, Growth, to 1910 Plate 2 View, looking north, c View, looking outh, c High Street, c O Connell Street, c Sligo from the air, 2006 Legend heet Map 5 Baxter, c Map 2 Recontruction, 137 CONSULTANT EDITOR J.H. Andrew Sligo County Council Comhairle Chontae Shligigh illutration: View of Sligo, looking north, c. 165, by Thoma Phillip (Phillip view). Printed by W.G. Baird Ltd. Royal Irih Academy 2012 By FIÓNA GALLAGHER and MARIE-LOUISE LEGG EDITORS Anngret Simm Raymond Gillepie The Royal Irih Academy i grateful to Sligo County Council for funding toward production and reearch. Fig 1 3; Map 17 drawn by Sarah Gearty and Anne Roenbuch. Cartography of Map 1, 3 Ordnance Survey Ireland/Government of Ireland Copyright Permit No. MP ; Map 2 by Land and Property Service Northern Ireland. Map 16 Town plan, 175 Iri R h al it h ic T Ac o w ad n em A Topographical information 1 Name 2 Legal tatu 3 Parliamentary tatu 4 Proprietorial tatu 5 Municipal boundary 6 Adminitrative location 7 Adminitrative diviion Population 9 Houing 10 Street 11 Religion 12 Defence 13 Adminitration Primary production 15 Manufacturing 16 Trade and ervice 17 Tranport 1 Utilitie 19 Health 20 Education 21 Entertainment, memorial and ocietie Reidence Sligo Borough Council Comhairle Bhuirg Shligigh No. 24 Extract from elected map contained in Irih Hitoric Town Atla, no. 24, Sligo CONTENTS Royal Irih Academy 19 Dawon Street, Dublin CARTOGRAPHIC EDITOR Sarah Gearty EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Angela Murphy, Jennifer Moore Map prepared in aociation with Ordnance Survey Ireland and Land and Property Service Northern Ireland Royal Irih Academy