Sligo Genealogy Tours
My Ireland Heritage find your Ancestors and exact house location from the 1700’s to the late 1800’s, and all available records in Ireland. We are an Irish family business dedicated to assisting you in your Irish Genealogy research for your roots and records of your family history of past generations in Sligo, as well as providing you with a once in a lifetime Irish Genealogy tour experience to visit your families original family house and Walk in the Footsteps of your Irish Ancestors.
Sean and the Team at My Ireland Heritage are a Government certified & approved Genealogy & Touring Company, and will personally guide you on the journey into your Irish ancestry to any County in Ireland.
Many companies are genealogy research only, many companies are touring companies only, we at My Ireland Family Heritage are proud to be able to encompass your research and tour together enabling us to work with you throughout the process to customize your tour with you and for you. To achieve a full genealogy tour experience consider adding one of our one-day historical tours.
Our Tours
Our Ancestral Townland Experience Tours
County Sligo’s dramatic landscape, dominated by the flat-topped Benbulben and the countryside that inspired poet W.B. Yeats, was also home to generations of small farming families whose land often bordered the Atlantic on one side and mountain terrain on the other. Like much of the west of Ireland, Sligo saw substantial emigration through the Famine period and beyond, and its rural parishes reflect that long, steady decline in population.
Sligo’s parish records benefit from careful local interpretation, since civil parish boundaries here don’t always reflect which church a family actually used, particularly in areas near the coast or mountains where travel to a more distant parish church was sometimes more practical than a nominally closer one. We work through whichever records survive, confirming the actual congregation and graveyard your family used, before identifying the specific townland connected to your family history.
A Sligo tour can take in the striking scenery around Benbulben and Sligo town, including sites connected to Yeats, alongside a visit to your family’s own townland, combining Sligo’s literary and landscape heritage with the more personal story of your own ancestors’ lives here.
- Sligo has 5 Baronies
- Sligo has 41 Civil parishes
- Sligo has 81 Electoral Divisions
- Sligo has 1287 Townlands
- Sligo has 22 sub townlands
Sligo is the derivation of the word Sligeach, meaning shells is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht. With a population of approximately 20,000 in 2014, it is the second largest urban centre in the West of Ireland.
Sligo is also a popular tourist destination, being situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty, with many literary and cultural associations.
It is rich in marine resources which were utilised as far back as the Mesolithic period and made iot an attractive place to live from the Mesolithic period. In fact it has an abundance of Monuments from the Neolithic period including Carrow Mor and Carrow Keel.
The Irish Celtic Tribes By Ptolemy 1st Century 500BC-500AD
- County Sligo – The Erdinoi and The Wennikni
Family Dynasties 1500-1600 AD
- Irish – O’Connor, O’Harte, O,Clery , O Dowd
• Norman – Burke
• Scottish – None
• Viking – None
County Sligo – Things to do and may be possible to include within your Ancestral Townland Experience Tour
- The Wild Atlantic way
- Benbulben
- Knocknarea cairns
- Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery
- Sligo Abbey
- Lissadell House
- Carrowkeel Neolitic Cairns
- Sligo Abbey
- The Lough Gill Drive and the lake Isle of Inish free
- Rosses Point
- WB Yates Graveside
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Sligo mainly known for its connection to W.B. Yeats?
Yeats is closely associated with Sligo and its landscape, but the county’s genealogical history runs much deeper, rooted in generations of small farming and fishing families.
My Sligo ancestors lived near the coast, does that change how research is done?
Coastal parishes sometimes have slightly different travel and church patterns than inland ones, which we factor in when confirming your family’s actual congregation.
Can a Sligo tour include Benbulben and Yeats-related sites?
Yes, these can be included alongside your family’s specific locations, depending on your interests and itinerary.
