The High Sheriff of Sligo was the British Crown's judicial representative in

County Sligo County Sligo ( , gle, Contae Shligigh) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the Border Region and is part of the province of Connacht. Sligo is the administrative capital and largest town in the county. Sligo County Council is the local ...

, Ireland, from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Sligo County Sheriff. The sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs. In 1908, an Order in Council made the Lord-Lieutenant the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff's precedence. However the sheriff retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in the county. The usual procedure for appointing the sheriff from 1660 onwards was that three persons were nominated at the beginning of each year from the county and the Lord Lieutenant then appointed his choice as High Sheriff for the remainder of the year. Often the other nominees were appointed as under-sheriffs. Sometimes a sheriff did not fulfil his entire term through death or other event and another sheriff was then appointed for the remainder of the year. The dates given hereunder are the dates of appointment. All addresses are in County Sligo unless stated otherwise. Sligo was constituted a county in 1568 by Sir

Henry Sidney Sir Henry Sidney (20 July 1529 – 5 May 1586), Lord Deputy of Ireland, was the eldest son of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst, a prominent politician and courtier during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, from both of whom he receive ...

, Lord Deputy of Ireland, but a sheriff does not appear to have been appointed until the year 1576 at the request of the

O'Connor Sligo Ó Conchobhair Sligigh (anglicised O'Conor Sligo), Gaelic- Irish family and Chief of the Name. The Ó Conchobhair Sligigh were a branch of the Ó Conchobhair Kings of Connacht. They were descended from Brian Luighnech Ua Conchobhair (k.1181), a ...

High Sheriffs of County Sligo

* ''Source: History of Sligo''

18th century

19th century

20th century

*1900: *1902: Henry McCarrick of Kilglass House, Ballina. *1903: Arthur Cooper O'Hara. *1904: Sir Josslyn Augustus Richard Gore-Booth, 6th Baronet. *1905: *1908: Bryan Ricco Cooper of

Markree Castle Markree Castle is a castle located in Collooney, County Sligo, Ireland. It is the ancestral seat of the Cooper family, partially moated by the River Unshin. Today it is a small family-run hotel. In the 1830s the Observatory on the grounds of the ...

. *1910: Roger Kennedy Parke. *1911: Frederick William O'Hara. *1912: *1914: Christopher Guy Orme. *1915: Charles John Boyle of The Priory, Gt. Milton, Wallingford. *1916: Colonel James Nicholson Soden Kirkwood, Woodbrook,

County Roscommon "Steadfast Irish heart" , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Roscommon.svg , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Ireland , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 = Connacht , subdi ...

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. *1918: R.E. O'Hara.

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Sligo Sligo ( ; ga, Sligeach , meaning 'abounding in shells') is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht. With a population of approximately 20,000 in 2016, it is the List of urban areas ...

History of County Sligo