The Ulster Bank is a fine detached five-bay two-storey sandstone ashlar classically-styled bank, was designed by James Hamilton architects of Belfast and Glasgow and was built in 1863.

One of the more noteable features of this building, which occupies its commanding position at this busy junction in Stephen Street is its rich ashlar Scottish sandstone.

The appearance of the building is enlivened by the high quality stone masonry which has decorative artistic detailing. The bank is significant, attesting to the prosperity of Sligo town in the late nineteenth century.

In front of the Ulster Bank stands Sligo's most popular, and most photographed tourist attraction, a statue devoted to the well documented world-renouned poet W.B. Yeats

Leave The Yeats Statue by looking at the front of the bank and walking to the right-hand side of the bank, then turn left for a brief detour up Holborn Street, one of Sligo's oldest streets, where we can see on Number 5 (on the right hand side of the road) a plaque remembering another very different famous figure, this house was once the childhood home of the world famous comedian Spike Milligan.

Return back down to Stephen Street and turn left, walk for a further 40 metres where you will come across a building which looks like a church, this is our next point of interest, Sligo Library and County Museum.

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Last Modified Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 21:57:33 GMT.