The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Sligo, built 1875.

Sligo Abbey - This Dominican Friary was founded in the mid-13th century.

The tombs in Sligo Abbey contain gothic and renaissance carvings, as well as lots of spooky ghosts.

The 19th century interior of Hargadon's Bar in Sligo Town... one of Ireland's first grocer/pubs.

Benbulben Mountain -- Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo

Final resting place of William Butler Yeats. Other famous writers from Ireland include Jonathan Swift, Patrick Kavanagh, Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey, Bram Stoker, J.M. Synge, Thomas Moore, and of course, James Joyce.