Editing County Sligo (section)

==Local government and politics==
{{Main|Sligo County Council}}
[[Sligo County Council]] is the local authority for the county. At the [[2019 Sligo County Council election]], it was divided into three [[local electoral area]]s (LEAs): [[Ballymote]]–[[Tobercurry]] (7 seats), [[Sligo]]–[[Strandhill]] (6 seats), and Sligo–[[Drumcliff]] (5 seats).<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|year=2018|type=si|number=632|name=County of Sligo Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order 2018|date=19 December 2018|access-date=31 October 2022|archive-date=2 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202212421/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2018/si/632/made/en/print}}</ref> Each of these form a municipal district, with the containing Sligo–Strandhill known as the borough district of Sligo.<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|year=2014|number=1|section=19|name=[[Local Government Reform Act 2014]]|stitle=municipal districts|date=27 January 2014|access-date=5 September 2020|archive-date=15 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215171029/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2014/act/1/section/19/enacted/en/html}}</ref>

===Former districts===
Under the [[Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898]], County Sligo was divided into the [[rural district (Ireland)|rural districts]] of Boyle No. 2, Dromore West, Sligo, and Tobercurry, and the urban district of [[Sligo]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Clancy |first=John Joseph|author-link=J. J. Clancy (North Dublin MP)|title=A handbook of local government in Ireland: containing an explanatory introduction to the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898: together with the text of the act, the orders in Council, and the rules made thereunder relating to county council, rural district council, and guardian's elections: with an index|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookoflocalg00clan/page/426/mode/2up |page=426 |year=1899|publisher=Sealy, Bryers and Walker|location=Dublin }}</ref> Unlike most urban districts, Sligo had retained its borough corporation. The rural districts were abolished in 1925.<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|year=1925|parl=ifs|number=5|name=[[Local Government Act 1925]]|date=26 March 1925|section=3|stitle=Abolition of rural district councils|access-date=22 December 2021}}</ref> Sligo Borough Corporation became a borough council in 2002,<ref>{{Cite Irish legislation|year=2001|number=37|name=[[Local Government Act 2001]]|schedno=6|stitle=Local Government Areas (Towns)|date=21 July 2001|access-date=3 August 2022}}</ref> before being abolished in 2014 in common with all borough and town councils in Ireland.<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|name=[[Local Government Reform Act 2014]]|year=2014|section=24|stitle=Dissolution of town councils and transfer date|number=1|date=27 January 2014|access-date=21 May 2022}}</ref>

===National politics===
County Sligo is part of the [[Dáil constituency]] of [[Sligo–Leitrim (Dáil constituency)|Sligo–Leitrim]] (4 [[Teachta Dála|TD]]s).<ref name="ea-2017">{{cite Irish legislation|year=2017|number=39|schedule=y|name=[[Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017]]|date=23 December 2017|access-date=24 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718205639/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2017/act/39/schedule/enacted/en/html|archive-date=18 July 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> At the 2020 election, [[Martin Kenny]] ([[Sinn Féin]]), [[Frank Feighan]] ([[Fine Gael]]), [[Marc MacSharry]] ([[Fianna Fáil]]) and [[Marian Harkin]] ([[Independent politician (Ireland)|Ind]]) were elected.

===Coat of arms===
This coat of arms was adopted by [[Sligo County Council]] in 1980. The design on the black shield, which shows an open book on which there is a Celtic Cross and a red rose, represents collectively the literary and cultural history of Sligo. These refer to such early works as the Books of Ballymote and Lecan, while the rose was a significant theme in the poetry of W. B. Yeats. The escallop shells sprinkled on the shield refer to the origin of the word Sligeach – "a place abounding in shells". The boar's head refers to the "wild boar of Benbulben" in the Diarmuid and Gráinne myth. The colour scheme of the crest incorporates the [[Sligo GAA]] colours of black and white.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.resources.teachnet.ie/vmcmahon/history/crests.htm|title=History Around You|website=resources.teachnet.ie|access-date=28 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729043105/http://www.resources.teachnet.ie/vmcmahon/history/crests.htm|archive-date=29 July 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>