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An Ros

Rosses Point
The promontory
An Ros derives from the Proto-Celtic word for promontory, an accurate description of this peninsula extending into Sligo Bay. Neolithic occupation is documented by shell middens along the shoreline—accumulations of oyster, cockle, and whelk shells recording prehistoric coastal food procurement dating to several millennia before Christ. Medieval ecclesiastical authority came via Drumcliff Monas...

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