County Sligo Quiz

County town of Sligo

 

Province that Sligo is in

 

Historic stately home, once the home of the Gore-Booth family

 

Constance Gore-Booth became the first woman elected to the British parliament as Constance ...

 

Nobel Prize winning poet and senator, friend of the Gore-Booths. Sligo is often knowns as "... Country' after him

Churchyard where the above is buried

 

Epitaph in the above on question 5's gravestone "Cast a cold eye on life, on ... Horseman pass by"

 

The above lines are from his poem "Under ... ...", referring to a spectacular mountain nearby

 

Sligo-born Pauline McGlynn played which character in "Father Ted"

 

In 1588 three ships of the Spanish ... were shipwrecked off the coast of Streedagh beach

World championship competitions of which water sport have been held off the Sligo coast because of the ideal conditions there

 

Academy award winning writer and film director (Mona Lisa, The Crying Game etc)

 

3 members of this boy band were from Sligo. They had 14 UK number one singles

 

Mountain near Strandhill, where the legendary Queen Maeve is said to be buried

Lord ..., a relative of the British Royal family, was assassinated off the coast of Sligo in 1979

 

Coastal village and harbour near which this incident occurred

 

The All Ireland ... Derby is an annual event in the above village

 

Bordering counties