Collooney

Collooney Cúil Mhuine
—  Village  —
Collooney Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 54°11′00″N 8°30′00″W / 54.1833°N 8.5000°W / 54.1833; -8.5000Coordinates: 54°11′00″N 8°30′00″W / 54.1833°N 8.5000°W / 54.1833; -8.5000
Country	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	County Sligo
Elevation	62 m (203 ft)
Population (2006)
– Urban	892
– Rural	1,754
Time zone	WET (UTC+0)
– Summer (DST)	IST (WEST) (UTC-1)
Irish Grid Reference	G674261

Collooney or Coloony (Irish: Cúil Mhuine, meaning "nook of the thicket") is a town in County Sligo, Ireland.

Transport

Collooney is located just off the N4 (Dublin to Sligo) and N17 (Sligo to Galway) roads, having been bypassed twice, by the N4 in 1998, and the N17 in 1992, and is the meeting point of both roads. The town was a significant railway centre, with no less than three railway stations. In addition to the one remaining Collooney railway station, opened on 3 December 1862,^[1] (on the railway from Dublin to Sligo) there was a station on the line to Claremorris (The Western Railway Corridor) and on the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway line to Enniskillen.

Controversy

Collooney has a retail park, a roundabout, a Centra, a bus stop, an ATM machine, white lining on the roads, multiple estates, a train station and even a freaking castle. Yet the inhabitants insist that they live in a village.

Also, why no area in Collooney has been renamed "George" is of great concern.

See also

• Battle of Collooney
• List of towns in the Republic of Ireland

References

1. ^ "Collooney station". Railscot - Irish Railways. http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-07.