County: Sligo Site name: SLIGO: Methodist Church Hall, Wine Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 14:65 Licence number: 99E0002
Author: Martin A. Timoney
Site type: Church
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 568845m, N 835971m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.271598, -8.478303
The Methodist community of Sligo is replacing its church hall, one of a group of three Methodist buildings (manse, church and church hall) in Wine Street, Sligo.
According to Wood-Martin (1892, 148), the church was opened in 1832, but there is a date of 1830 in the inscription in an oriel feature high up in the north face. The church hall abuts the east side of the church, to which it was added sometime between 1830 and the time of the Griffith Valuation.
Test excavation, which began in October 1999, at the rear and the side of the replacement church hall site, revealed only 19th-century deposits associated with walls contemporary with the church. The test excavation cannot be completed until the area at the street front becomes available in mid-2000.
Reference
Wood-Martin, W.G. 1892 The history of Sligo, County and Town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time. Dublin. Reprinted Sligo, 1990.
Bóthar An Corran, Keash, Co. Sligo
