Buildings/areas of interest in Sligo!*

brianthebard

Does anyone have any favourite buildings or places to visit/look at in Sligo? I really like the mall, the whole street is like walking back to victorian Sligo, plus it has the freemasons lodge which is all cool and mysterious and stuff!!!*
Are there any other interesting buildings in Sligo?



(Exclamations are cool!!)

JIZZLORD

the back end of the friary is interesting too. from what you can see, it's beautiful, tis a pity they tore down the rest of the building

TequilaMockingBird

When I first moved here, people would use the Friary as a landmark when giving directions, no wonder I spent half my time lost, I was expecting a really old church, not a 70's inspired warehouse. Its pretty awful.

I think the Cathedral is amazing, alot of those buildings along there are interesting.

brianthebard

Yeah its really not what you'd expect a friary to look like. What is the back side of it though jizzlord? I mean where should one be standing to best view it?

starbelgrade

I like The Glasshouse.

JIZZLORD

brianthebard wrote: »

Yeah its really not what you'd expect a friary to look like. What is the back side of it though jizzlord? I mean where should one be standing to best view it?

if you go towards the entrance on the market yard side and then look around you'll see a big old stainded glass window, mosaics, etc. i remember my grandmother talking about the old friary. it's foundations were failing it, and it was pulled down instead of spending more money fixing it up.

JIZZLORD

Madge

sueme wrote: »

When I first moved here, people would use the Friary as a landmark when giving directions, no wonder I spent half my time lost, I was expecting a really old church,

Maybe they meant Sligo Abbey.

JIZZLORD wrote:

if you go towards the entrance on the market yard side and then look around you'll see a big old stainded glass window, mosaics, etc.

Yeah the back of it is nice. You can see the church bells there aswell.
BTW, my mother was walking up that way yesterday, said there was a couple of suspicious looking Romas / Romanians (?!) congregating there. Maybe thats their new haunt now...

magnumlady

I like the back end of the Friary, The Abbey, The arts centre, library, Ulster bank, the Ej's building.....all great old buildings.
I took the bridge to the side of Calry church yesterday, the church looks lovely from the river (if you avoid the wino's)

sligobhoy67

I like Sligo Jail in Garavogue Villas - and I like the compund that houses the radio mast in Maugheraboy for entirely different reasons!

TequilaMockingBird

The Courthouse is lovely too.

I tell my child not to walk too close the the basement windows, in case the prisoners grab her leg.

guinnessdrinker

The Freemasons building is pretty cool alright but it looks a bit out of place. Apart from the different colour bricks, it's a bit like a house Norman Bates from Psycho would live in! :eek:



Sligo Freemason building.



Norman Bates' house!

brianthebard

I actually thought it was an engineering school of some sort when I first had a good luck at the symbol on the gate. Does anyone know anything about the freemasons in Sligo or is anyone possibly a member?

tuppence

Ah I was always wondering what that was. Its so cool alright. Probably the nicest building in the town.
Whats the old building across the road from the cinema? its kinda quirky.
Lyons and its cafe is nice. (thanks be they haven't gutted it...yet). Their building in Collooney is interesting too. Theres a huge wall separating it form teh road. I love Harmony hill and the warren of streets around it. The view walking down it is great.

Gillie

I was in that Building years ago. It's amazing inside!

TequilaMockingBird

tuppence wrote: »

Whats the old building across the road from the cinema? its kinda quirky.
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Methodist Church
www.sligomethodist.org/images/sligo.jpg

TequilaMockingBird

Gillie wrote: »

I was in that Building years ago. It's amazing inside!

Tell us!

Xiney

I really love the glasshouse, especially looking from around Fiddler's there... the old bridge, the Garavogue/Left Bank/Voodoo (which is a lovely building in itself) and the Glasshouse just really look fab together. I know people around here are somewhat divided on it, but from my perspective it's a beautiful building. Not too fond of the back end of it though, that teal siding is going to look rather stupid in 10 or 15 years - it'll get dated too quickly I think. They've got the same stuff on the new Swan Point apartments and Johnston Court, so you're going to have a whole slew of dated buildings soon!

I also like the Belfry. Lovely looking pub.

The courthouse is a beautiful building as well.

The old ruined Abbey.

The Yeats Building.

I'm fond of Lyons' building too, and the Model Niland.


To be honest, the Cathedral isn't a particularly stunning one. It's a nice building but a plain Cathedral.

takola

I love the Belfry. It looks gorgeous.

Also love the left bank building. I love all of rockwood parade. I think it's looks lovely.

The Model Arts and Niland centre is beautiful too, from the outside anyway.

St Annes Church too.

I don't particularly like the Glass House. I always think it looks like a box of tic tacs! :rolleyes:

brianthebard

I wouldn't go so far as to call the model beautiful, but its definitely nice. An imposing, the way it sits on the top of that mound. Also lissadell house is fantastic-I almost had a job there a few years ago. Fun fact; the house is actually 10% smaller than it was intended to be, which leads to some asymmetry on ceilings and the like.

SligoBrewer

From the outside, The old building in S,ummerhill is a fantastic sight. Inside well..:rolleyes:

I'd love to have seen it in its finest, when everywhere in the old building was opened up and not boarded up.

il gatto

St.John's CoI Cathedral is worth a look around if it's open. It's early 18th century with later add ons. Presbyterian church on Chuch Street/Charles Street is nice. The town hall is a nice romanesque building and the banks on Stephen Street are nice too. Calry CoI at the top of the mall is a typical late Georgian church and bigger inside than you would expect from outside. One of the most interesting buildings in town has to be the Clarion hotel which opened as a Lunatic asylum in 1855. Even though it's function has changed it's a very impressive building.

brianthebard

The library is also very nice.

il gatto

Actually, I think the town hall is neo-classical, not romanesque. On secondthoughts.

tuppence

Markievitz house is always really formidable building too, and especially where it is. Dunno anything bout its period nor its links with that family.

Mint Sauce

takola wrote: »

I love the Belfry. It looks gorgeous.

Also love the left bank building. I love all of rockwood parade. I think it's looks lovely.

The Model Arts and Niland centre is beautiful too, from the outside anyway.

St Annes Church too.

I don't particularly like the Glass House. I always think it looks like a box of tic tacs! :rolleyes:

at least two of the buildings you like are a pub takola, do i sense a patern



quite like the showgrounds, the glass house, ejs/BOI building, the catherdral, and the hawkswell/tourst office

redarmyblues

The town hall does it for me in a cool rational Italinate kind of way. The lovely clock tower has in typical Sligo style been recently desecrated by the addition of what appears to be some sort of radio equipment.

Some posters have admired the Lyons building. If you examine the town hall you will see it is designed to be viewed from two sides, the south and west are dressed stone while the east and north sides are rubble faced. The area where Lyons now stands was intended to be a public park, and it was expected that Sligonians could admire the south facing facade from or across this park. However in an early planning scandal developers mamaged to build a department store on the site.

The railway station combines the loveliness of provincial Irish railway architecture (which makes railway journeys here such a pleasure), with a utilatarian monumentality that if it was not for the loss of its roof in the civil war woukd make it the finest railway building in Ireland. The aspect as you leave the station is particularly pleasing dominated by the two Cathedrals close by with Summerhill collge in the background.

il gatto

The back of the railway station reminds me of the Bastille or something. It's a massive piece of masonry.
Another building of national importance is the Bacthelor's Foods building on the quays. It was built over a hundred years ago using an advanve (for the time) reinforced concrete construction method. It was the first of it's kind in Ireland, or outside Dublin at least. Not very pretty but still worth a look.

dingding

http://www.sligotown.net/images/westernwholesalebld.jpg

The western wholesale building and it's tower.

Big_Mac

Xiney wrote: »

I really love the glasshouse, especially looking from around Fiddler's there... the old bridge, the Garavogue/Left Bank/Voodoo (which is a lovely building in itself) and the Glasshouse just really look fab together. I know people around here are somewhat divided on it, but from my perspective it's a beautiful building. Not too fond of the back end of it though, that teal siding is going to look rather stupid in 10 or 15 years - it'll get dated too quickly I think. They've got the same stuff on the new Swan Point apartments and Johnston Court, so you're going to have a whole slew of dated buildings soon!

As far as I know, the design of the Glasshouse is meant to be a ship, with the glass to be the front of it. It looks a bit odd at the moment as the flats are still being built at the back of it, but once its finished completely it should make sense, and not so wierd.

P.S. McLaughlins Bar on High St. If you look at all the photos from one side of the bar through to the other, its like travelling through time, they seem to be in Chronological order (horizontally)

steve staunton

What Your Fav Building Or Place To Look At??? Lol

Ye Must Be Really Stuck For Topics Here Lads.

muffler

We dont like trolls here.

il gatto

steve staunton wrote: »

What Your Fav Building Or Place To Look At??? Lol

Ye Must Be Really Stuck For Topics Here Lads.

Yes...Yes we are. Still, it's a step up from the one about regional variations on garden gnomes:p

Gillie

mcgowan.b wrote: »

As far as I know, the design of the Glasshouse is meant to be a ship, with the glass to be the front of it. It looks a bit odd at the moment as the flats are still being built at the back of it, but once its finished completely it should make sense, and not so wierd.

That's true.
The idea is if you stand in the upstairs bar and look out at the river it seems like your on the deck of a ship.
Very clever really

Gillie

steve staunton wrote: »

What Your Fav Building Or Place To Look At??? Lol

Ye Must Be Really Stuck For Topics Here Lads.

Aw gee wizz your right mister!!
Be we just so stopid round these here parts!:rolleyes:

TequilaMockingBird

muffler wrote: »

We dont like trolls here.

I got a scarily realistic image of Muffler sitting on a veranda in a rocking chair with a shotgun, chewing tobacco. :eek::p

Gillie

sueme wrote: »

I got a scarily realistic image of Muffler sitting on a veranda in a rocking chair with a shotgun, chewing tobacco. :eek::p

I wouldn't say your miles off!

steve staunton

in fairness..... buildings or things we like to look at!!!? such a joke.:D

muffler

steve staunton wrote: »

in fairness..... buildings or things we like to look at!!!? such a joke.:D

You will learn plenty about this forum with a week off.

Oh and sending me PMs with lots of little ***** in them doesnt exactly help your case.

Goodbye muppet

muffler

Gillie wrote: »

I wouldn't say your miles off!

I never knew you took that

starbelgrade

<SNIP>

Are you sure you're Steve Staunton? You sound a lot more like Roy Keane.

muffler

The bell in this building reminds me of our now departed poster

Gillie

muffler wrote: »

The bell in this building reminds me of our now departed poster

Yeah!
What a spanner!:rolleyes:
Good riddence!

JIZZLORD

how does boards attract people like that and why did this thread set him off?

Mint Sauce

JIZZLORD wrote: »

how does boards attract people like that and why did this thread set him off?

must be the quality of the buildings and the areas of interest in sligo, maybe he's jealious

Gillie

muffler wrote: »

I never knew you took that

Course you didn't.
You thought I was a mormon appraising your porch!;)

Gillie

irish-stew wrote: »

must be the quality of the buildings and the areas of interest in sligo, maybe he's jealious

Yeah.
he's probably from Leitrim
*hides*

tuppence

Gillie wrote: »

Yeah.
he's probably from Leitrim
*hides*

Ah now Gillie for **** sake no need to bring Leitrim into it! :D

muffler

JIZZLORD wrote: »

how does boards attract people like that and why did this thread set him off?

At this stage I have forgotten what is left up for public viewing and what is let for mods only but 3 accounts have been site banned.

brianthebard

redarmyblues wrote: »

The railway station combines the loveliness of provincial Irish railway architecture (which makes railway journeys here such a pleasure), with a utilatarian monumentality that if it was not for the loss of its roof in the civil war woukd make it the finest railway building in Ireland. The aspect as you leave the station is particularly pleasing dominated by the two Cathedrals close by with Summerhill collge in the background.

Forgot about the railway station (I usually get off at Ballymote) but I agree, its lovely. I quite like ballymote for that matter, has a nice rustic slightly twee feeling off it.

il gatto

It's only twee if it's a pastiche. It's an authentic victorian piece of railway architecture. Keep telling yourself that. Ballymote doesn't have alot of architecture to go around:rolleyes::D