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===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
Per pale vert and azure, on the dexter a ruined antique square tower , on the sinister an oak tree eradicated proper, on a point Or a hare courant, attached to the hind foot a escallop all of the third, at the centre chief point an escallop argent. | |||
===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
The arms were officially granted on March 16, 1953. | |||
The earliest extant seal (dating from 1709 and used until September 1774) does not show a hare, but rather a species of deer , with its forefoot raised and the other resting on a piece of rock. | |||
A ’comparatively new device’, first appeared on the 25th of January 1775 and was used until the 5th of September 1783. This design transformed the animal into a hare by virtue of its minute scale next to a Tower House/Castle and over-arching tree. | |||
This seal was used until 1881 when the old Tower House was changed to Drumcliffe Round Tower by way of resolution of Sligo Corporation. | |||
The current arms kept the symbols form the old seal, the tower, hare and a tree. The hare has a shell on its foot to indicate the Shelly River. | |||
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[[File:ireland.jpg|50 px|link=Ireland]][[Category:Irish municipalities]] | [[File:ireland.jpg|50 px|link=Ireland]][[Category:Irish municipalities]] | ||
[[Category:Sligo]] | [[Category:Sligo]] | ||