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| TOWN OF SLIGO.- The name of this well known place is said to have originated from the stram which flows through it, now called the Garrogue, but in old Gaelic the Sligeach, or "Shelly," river. It would seem to have been an abscure place until the thirteenth century, whe the warlike and pious Maurice Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare, erected there a castle and a monastery around which a considerable city arose. |
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