Old Map of County Sligo in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Ballymote, Tubbercurry, Enniscrone, Rosses Point coastal maritime trade The map’s intricate design highlights

The map’s intricate design highlights lake depths

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Old Map of County Sligo in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Ballymote, Tubbercurry, Enniscrone, Rosses Point coastal maritime trade The map’s intricate design highlightsCounty Sligo appears here as Samuel Lewis mapped it in 1844, one sheet from his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, a work that aimed to record every parish, barony, and market town across the country. Sligo sits in the province of Connacht on Ireland's northwest coast, a county of dramatic coastline and flat topped mountains that Lewis's engravers rendered with the same careful attention to boundaries and place names that they gave the rest of