284- Approach and Entrance of Sligo. 



The approach to Sligo announces to the 

 traveller his arrival at a place of some im- 

 portance, by the number of good houses, plea- 

 sure grounds, and plantations in its environs. 

 The extensive barracks are the first buildings 

 that present themselves on entering the town - 

 the streets are spacious the shops good, and a 

 general appearance of industry prevails. Our 

 inn is really very comfortable. The ruins of a 

 monastery of Dominicans are by much the best 

 specimen of architecture we have yet seen in 

 Ireland. The custom house and storehouses 

 are on a very extensive scale : great additions 

 are making to the quays ; and as the navigation 

 to them is very good, vessels of considerable 

 tonnage can safely approach and enter the 

 docks. Sligo has had a share of the trade to 

 America and the Baltic ; its exports are chiefly 

 confined to butter, grain, and linen. The im- 

 portation of coal is infinitely less than it would 

 be, were the lower classes provided with grates 

 or stoves in their habitations. The price at 

 Sligo of this article is from thirty to thirty-five 

 shillings a ton ; it is brought as dennage from 

 Liverpool } but the chief supply is from Scotland. 



The population of Sligo exceeds ten thou- 

 sand souls. The prison is spacious and well- 



