{"id":8892,"count":1,"description":"Sligo (Irish: Sligeach, meaning \"shelly place\" \u2014 English pronunciation: \/\u02c8sla\u026a\u0261o\u028a\/ SLY-goh, Irish pronunciation:\u00a0[\u02c8\u0255l\u02b2\u026a\u025f\u0259x]) is the county town of County Sligo in Ireland. The town is a borough and has a charter and a town mayor. It is the second largest urban area in Connacht.\nSligo's Irish name Sligeach - meaning shelly place - allegedly originates in the abundance of shellfish found in the river and its estuary, and from the extensive 'shell middens' or Stone Age food preparation areas in the vicinity. The river (now known as the Garavogue 'rough river' ) was also called the Sligeach. The Ordnance Survey letters of 1836 state that \"cart loads of shells were found underground in many places within the town where houses now stand\". At that time shells were constantly being dug up during the construction of foundations for buildings. This whole area, from the river estuary at Sligo, around the coast to the river at Ballysadare Bay, is rich in marine resources which were utilised as...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/sligo\/","name":"Sligo","slug":"sligo","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/8892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=8892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}