Grange, County Sligo
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Grange An Ghráinseach
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 Grange
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| Coordinates: 54°24′00″N 8°31′00″W / 54.4000°N 8.5167°WCoordinates: 54°24′00″N 8°31′00″W / 54.4000°N 8.5167°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Sligo |
| Elevation | 28 m (92 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Urban | 578 |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
| Irish Grid Reference | G664502 |
Grange (Irish: An Ghráinseach, meaning "The Granary") is a village on the N15 national primary road in County Sligo, Ireland. Located in an area of outstanding scenic beauty between Benbulben mountain and the Atlantic Ocean. Streedagh, a townland near Grange, is the location of a large sandy beach, three Armada wrecks and a salt water lagoon that is an area of Special Conservation. Streedagh strand is also a popular surfing destination.
A short distance to the north are the towns of Ballyshannon - and Bundoran, a seaside resort and surfers' paradise. To the south are Drumcliff, burial place of poet and Nobel laureate W. B. Yeats, and Sligo town.
The old village is on the hill to the north of the present village. Grange developed on land belonging to the Cistercian monastery of Boyle in County Roscommon. Grange village was a stronghold of the O’Harte and O’Connor families throughout the Medieval period. The O'Hartes provided cavalry for the O'Connor Sligo Lords of Carbury-Drumcliff.
A castle once stood near the centre of the present village.The Annals of Ireland record that in 1604 a ‘new castle and 7 cottages were built by Hugh O’Hart in the town of Grange, Co. Sligo.’"
After the 1641 rebellion the land was granted to Thomas Soden. Col. W. Wood-Martin, the Irish historian, writes that Thomas Soden was probably an officer in Col. Richard Coote's Regiment of Horse, one of the Cromwellian regiments disbanded in the County of Sligo. He adds that he received in lieu of arrears of pay, a grant of the town, townland and castle, of Grange, County Sligo. Grange is located nine miles north of the town of Sligo on the road to Bundoran. He received this grant on 13 April 1668, under the 'Act of Settlement'."
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