Sligoville

English

Etymology

Named after Howe Browne, Marquess of Sligo and Governor of Jamaica in 1834, the year that freedom came to the enslaved people of Jamaica.

Proper noun

Sligoville

1. A village in Saint Catherine parish, Jamaica.
   • 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 336:

     Benjamin left to join his minister-man to work his own piece of land in a place called Sligoville.