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Colloney, County Sligo

Collooney

Collooney is a little town in County Sligo: its name is from the Irish Cúil Mhuine, meaning 'nook of the thicket'.

The village is found just off the main Dublin to Sligo and Sligo to Galway roads, bypassed today though once a meeting place of the ways. The town was in its time a significant railway centre, with no less than three railway stations, of which just one now remains. (Read more)