A considerable number of the population are employed in fishing. The Sligo fishery district comprises 103 miles of maritime boundary, extending from Bailing Bridge to Abbey Point In 1853 it had 216 reentered Teasels, employing 1269 men and boys. Coarse linens and woollens are manufactured in the county.
Division, and Towns.—The county Is chiefly in the dioceses of Achonry and Llphin, with email portions in those of KiUala and Ardagb. It is divided into six baronies, Carberry, CoolaTin, Corm; Leyny, Tirersgh, and Tireril; and contains 41 parishes. The prin cipal towns are Sligo, Ardnaree, a suburb of Bailin* in Mayo, and Tobercurry. SLIGO and TOMERCURRT are noticed under their Teepee tire titles, and Ardneree under that of BALLINA. The following towns and villages may be noticed here; the populations are those of 1851 :— Bally/note, population 965, a market-town, is situated at the junction of several roads, 14 miles S. by W. from Sligo. The parish church of Emlyfadd is a good building in the early English style, with a hand some tower and spire. There are chapels for Roman Catholics and Wesleyan Methodists, a court-house., dispensary, constabulary barrack, and bridewell. The place has a small manufacture of linen. Five annual fairs are held. The town is the Feat of quarter and petty sessions. Close by it are the remains of a Franciscan friary, in which was composed the ' Psalter of Ballymote also the ruins of • castle built in the year 1300 by Richard de Burgo. The ruins consist of walla 60 feet high, with parapet and towers.
Pallytadere, population 670, is a small town 5 miles S. by W. from Sligo, at the bead of Ardnagl•ss Harbour, on both aides of the Owen more River, which here forma • very fine cascade. Several large flour and oatmeal-mills have been erected on the different levels of the cascade, and • considerable export of oatmeal and flour takes place by the river, which is ascended by craft of 100 tons burden, to a small harbour below the falls. A limestone-quarry ?nd a bleach-green are near the town. There are seven yearly fairs.
Colloofsey, population 563, is • market-town, situated on the right bank of the Owenmore, 7 miles S. from Sligo. The church is a hand some gothic buildiog containing some good monuments. There are a Roman Catholic, chapel, two schools, poliee.barracks, market-honse, a linen-ball, and a dispensary. Near the town are • large bleach ground and an oatmeal-mill. The market Is on Thursday, and there
are six yearly fain. Petty serwrione are held monthly.
Droner. West, a small poet-town and the seat of a Poor-Law Union, is situated on the river Earky, and on the Sligo and Balling road, 21 miles W. by S. from Sligo. It Is • poor ill-built place, with a small population, and containing a National school, a dispensary, end the Union workhouse. Petty sessions are held fortnightly ; and fairs five times • year. Dromore West Poor-Lew Union comprises 17 electoral divisions, with an area of 96,035 acres, and a population in 1851 of 19,563.
Easky, population 513, is a small market-town, situated on the old or coast-road to Balliue, on the left bank of the river F.asky, 27 miles W. from Sligo. It contains a neat parish church, a Roman Catholic chapel, • Baptist meeting-house, and a courthouse. The market is on Wednesday. Quarter sessions and petty sessions are held.
A chofiry, a poor hamlet, about 15 miles S.S.W. from Sligo, neer tho road to Tobercurry, u only remarkable as the seat of an ancient diocese, and contain• little besides the parish church, which was built in 1823. The diocese of Achoory existed in the 6th century. It was united in the time of Charles I. to the see of Killsla, and by the Isle Church Temporalities Act both were added to the diocese of Tusm. The diocese of Achonry comprehends the greater part of Sligo county, and a small section of Mayo. It comprises 10 benefice& The chapter consists of a dean, archdeacon, precentor, and three prebendaries. A manor court is held in the village. Bellaghy, population 316, situated on the southern border of the county, has a market, held weekly, cia Wednesday. Fairs are held five times a year. Coolaney, population 326, a village in the barony of Leyny, is situated on the right bank of the Owenbeg River, 10 miles S.S.W. from Sligo. The river is crossed by a bridge near the north end of the town. Coolaney forms one street parallel to the stream, and contains a Baptist meeting house, a court-house, dispensary, and constabulary barracks. There are five yearly fairs. Riverstown, population 330, a village situated 23/ miles S.S.W. from Sligo, contains the parish church of Kilmacal lane, a Roman Catholic chapel, a Methodist meeting-house, a school house, dispensary, constabulary-barracks, two corn-mills, and two kilns. Petty sessions are held here.