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Sligo is the County Seat of an area by the same name in Northwestern Ireland. It has a fine variety of mountain, lake and coastal scenery. West of the town the Oxmountains form a background to the coastal plain, while north of Sligo the landscape is dominated by steep-sided and flat-topped limestone hills. Near Sligo, in beautiful Lough Gill, one can
visit the Isle of Innifree immortalised in Yeats' poem.