Thanks to Feelystone in Boyle for forwarding more encouraging photographs of the main stones for the memorial garden under construction. These are of the preparation work on the fourth and fifth stone.
Stone four includes the towns / town lands of Keash, Kilfree. Kilglass, Kilmacowen, Lissadell, Monasteraden, and Mullinabreena on one side (34 names) with Riverstown, Rosses Point and Skreen/Dromard on the second side (48 names)
Stone five carries the last of the towns and townlands outside the borough boundary on one side. These are Sooey, Strandhill, Templeboy, Tourlestrane and Tubbercurry (40 names). Side two carries the first of the Borough areas, Sligo Town North East, which carries 28 names.
Please do consider becoming an on-line Name Benefactor for one of those names on these panels from today and ur earlier construction updates by visiting the site and following the Name Benefactor steps.
Help complete this wonderful memorial to the highest possible standards by becoming a Name Benefactor.
Becoming a Name Benefactor is a sincere and generous way for families and individuals to acknowledge and recognise someone lost to our County in this world wide conflict over 100 years ago.
Becoming a Name Benefactor costs €50.
Choose a name from the Memorial Names Page Click Here This could be a family member or someone from your community, or a simply random choice of a name that has no Benefactor so far.
Follow a couple of short Name Benefactor steps . Click Here
We will associate your support with the name you have chosen on our Name Benefactors Page.
Stone four ready for the name templates to be applied.
The template for inscribing the names is applied.
First of the Sligo Borough areas. These names will appear on the far side of the Sooey - Tubbercurry stone face
In for deep sandblasting.