Cliffoney, officially Cliffony (Irish: Cliafuine (Cliathmhuine), meaning 'hurdled thicket'),[2] is a village in north County Sligo, Ireland.

Cliffoney has historical connections to Lord Palmerston, British Prime Minister and Father Michael O'Flanagan, vice-president and later President of Sinn Féin, who was known as the Republican Priest.

[5] The oldest buildings in Cliffoney are the five megalithic tombs close to the village in the townlands of Creevykeel, Creevymore and Cartronplank.

Beside the well is an early Christian cross-slab known as the Cliffoney Cross, thought to date to the eighth century and contemporary with the many carved slabs on Inishmurray.

[5]St Brigid's Well is situated in Mrs Timoney's field about four hundred yards from the main road in the vicinity of Cliffoney.

It was called St Brigid's Well, because when she was travelling through Connaught she visited and blessed it.In its present state it is difficult to locate it, because it is surrounded by briars.

The second Viscount "contributed generously to local charities in Romsey, but he had no feelings of obligation towards his Irish tenants, and never invested any money in his lands in Sligo.

It replaced an earlier structure called Tempeall Bui, located behind the current village hall and close to Saint Bridget's well, probably demolished and reused in the new buildings.

[14] "In the build up to Catholic Emancipation, in February 1828, religious tensions caused a riot in Cliffoney with extra police required to calm the 239 strong crowd.

"[15] A parochial house called Palmerston Glebe was built in Creevymore for the use of the Catholic priests, with four acres of land attached.

Palmerston hired an estate manager named John Lynch to oversee drainage and reclamation projects and built a two-story house called Rundale cottage.

[16] O'Flanagan, a widely travelled curate with strong nationalist, socialist and republican ideals, may have been moved by Bishop Bernard Coyne for his support of the Sligo Dock Strike in May 1913.

[17] One of O'Flanagan's first initiatives was to write to Colonel Ashley of Classiebawn Castle, and he secured the old school house as a community hall for the villagers.

Upon discovering social inequality in land redistribution, he led the villagers on a campaign against the Congested Districts Board to secure rights to cut turf on the Cloonerco Bogs adjacent to Cliffoney.

He gave a passionate speech at the Reception of Remains in City Hall, where he was photographed with Tom Clarke, Mary Jane and Eileen O'Donovan Rossa.

[19] At the graveside O'Flanagan recited the funeral prayers in Irish before his friend Padraig Pearse made his incendiary speech.

(Irish Republican Brotherhood) by the late William Gilmartin and Alec McCabe, then a National Teacher in Sligo.

Circle at that time consisted of eight members and was later increased to twelve William Gilmartin and myself then organized a Company of the Irish Volunteers in Cliffoney area.

At that time we had a Catholic Curate the late Father Michael O'Flanagan, a great Irishman and strong supporter of the Republican Movement.

The Cliffony Volunteers mobilised in the early hours of Easter Monday, 60 strong, including Fianna boys.

At the break of day they were ready to advance on Sligo when a messenger arrived cancelling all active operations pending further orders from H.Q.

The Cliffoney Company forewarned, but fifteen men were arrested and subsequently deported first to Sligo Goal, then Dublin and finally Wandsworth prison close to London.

barracks in Cliffoney, occupying the corner opposite the church, hall and hotel, was constructed on Lord Palmerston's orders in 1842, after some surveyors in his employment were beaten up by disgruntled locals.

On 25 October 1920, Sergeant Perry led a bicycle patrol of eight constables to investigate a case of malicious damage in Magherow.

The group, which left Cliffoney barracks at 11.00 am, cycled into an ambush at Derry cross close to Ahamlish graveyard at 11.30 am.

Some thirty to forty members of the North Sligo I.R.A., led by Liam Pilkington and Seamus Devins opened fire on the R.I.C., killing three instantly and wounding three more.

[23] Cliffoney village is arranged around a cross-roads on the N15 with the church, community hall, public house and old RIC barracks each occupying a corner.

The church was opened in 1828, replacing an older structure called Teampeall Bui down the hill and close to Saint Briget's well.

Cliffoney church was closed for an extensive period in 1915 when the whole village united in protest against the Bishop of Elphin, Dr. Bernard Coyne, who had removed Fr.

The station was handed over to the Cliffoney Development Group by Minister Brian Hayes in July 2014, with plans for the building to be used as a men's shed or tourist office.