Ballintogher is a village in County Sligo, Ireland. Ballintogher Village Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. Sooey is situated 4 km north of Riverstown. The village is situated near Riverstown, on the R284 road which runs between Sligo and Leitrim village in County Leitrim. The name Pigtown, they suggest, should skulk into the shadows of bygone days and let the more refined moniker step forward. Hamlet Sooey, is a village in County Sligo in Ireland.

Some Pigtowners - er, Washington Villagers - insist that bearing the name of a rotund, muddy animal is not only undignified, it belies the upwardly mobile transformation sweeping through much of the community. A place in the register would give Pigtown a cachet it has never had before and open the door to tax breaks for those interested in maintaining the old architecture of the area. Templeboy Parish Monumental Inscriptions. Still, Pigtown remained Pigtown to most city dwellers and continues today to have its staunch adherents.īut now comes an effort to list the neighborhood with the respected National Register of Historic Places. Saint Joseph Cemetery (partial listing) Scarden Cemetery Headstone Inscriptions. Believed to have its origins in the 1800s, when swine were driven from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad through Ostend and Cross streets toward the slaughterhouses in South Baltimore, the name was changed to Washington Village in the 1970s, when city leaders decided urban renewal gave them privileges of unpoetic license.

The name of Baltimore's own beloved Pigtown is under assault.

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