This page is a detailed time line of the development of the Irish town and county of Sligo

Sligo

Sligo is the county town of County Sligo in Ireland. The town is a borough and has a charter and a town mayor. It is sometimes referred to as a city, and sometimes as a town, and is the second largest urban area in Connacht...

, in the 20th and 21st Centuries.

Pre 1980s

Whytes Tobaccionists, John Street opened 1888

2005

Gaiety Cinema opened on Wine Street

1968

Best's supermarket opened on Adelaide Street, in the building now occupied by Dunnes Stores

1987

Sligo School Project opened on The Mall in the town, in the building now occupied by The Model Arts Centre and Niland Gallery

1988

January: Construction began on new building of Sligo General Hospital

January: Construction of government office complex on College Road began

Queens Stores demolished

December 9: Hughes Bridge opened

1993

Sligo Leisure and Bowl Centre (bowling alley etc.) on Ballast Quay opened

Construction began on the regeneration of Rockwood Parade

The Factory performance space opened

New Tourist Office on Temple Street completed and opened

Lake Isle Road approved for construction

Fisherman's wharf apartment complex opened

April 30: New building of Sligo General Hospital officially opened

1995

Lake Isle Road opened

September: New footbridge and railings on Rockwood Parade completed

September: RTÉ transmitter station on Truskmore completed

1996

March: Work began on Collooney

Collooney

-Transport:Collooney is located just off the N4 and N17 roads, having been bypassed twice, by the N4 in 1998, and the N17 in 1992, and is the meeting point of both roads. The town was a significant railway centre, with no less than three railway stations...

-Ballisodare bypass

June: Old Gaiety Cinema demolished for construction of new building

1998

January 26: Collooney

Collooney

-Transport:Collooney is located just off the N4 and N17 roads, having been bypassed twice, by the N4 in 1998, and the N17 in 1992, and is the meeting point of both roads. The town was a significant railway centre, with no less than three railway stations...

-Ballisodare bypass opened

January: Redevelopment of The Buttermarket (Named Quayside eventually) approved for construction

January 28: Sligo Regional Technical College changed officially to Sligo Institute Of Technology

April: Waterpoint swimming pool and leisure centre in Enniscrone opened

August: New Gaiety Cinema 7 screen multiplex opened

Sligo School Project moved from The Mall to the new site near Cranmore

Cranmore, Sligo

Cranmore is a large local authority housing development in Sligo, it is situated on the eastern side of Sligo town. It is the largest housing estate in the west of Ireland with 511 houses, it was built in five phases from the early seventies to 1985...

, previously occupied by St. Annes school

November: The Galaxy centre on The Riverside opened

1999

March: Millennium House on Stephen Street completed (Call Of The Wild, Lock and Safe, Deirdre Cook's, etc.)

April 12: Curlews bypass officially opened in south county Sligo

New building, now occupied mainly by The Sligo Weekender offices opened

December 17: New Footbridge opened on The Riverside, beside the new Riverside Hotel

2000

Kennedy Parade redevelopment completed with new paving

April: War memorial on Kennedy Parade unveiled

2002

June: Work began on 5 new screens in The Gaiety cinema

December: Work (above) completed in The Gaiety cinema, bringing it to be a 12 screen multiplex

2007

October: Johnston Court Shopping Centre opened to the public

Glasshouse Hotel opened on Hyde Bridge

2010

March: First section of the Western Distributer Road opened, linking Strandhill Road with Ballydoogan road

Sources

All information sourced from hard copies of The Sligo Champion and The Sligo Weekender