Cranmore, Sligo

Cranmore (Irish: An Crann Mór, meaning 'the big tree') is a large local authority housing development in Sligo, Ireland, situated on the eastern side of the town. It is the largest housing estate in the west of Ireland with 511 houses, it was built in five phases from the early seventies to 1985. There are 246 houses owned by the local authority, a further 213 houses in private ownership and 52 houses built by the housing agency, Clúid.

Cranmore is made up of 15 blocks of houses or "drives" as they are known locally including:

Cranmore Place

Cranmore Drive

Cranmore Villas

O'Dwyer Court (demolished 2009)

Devins Drive

Geldof Drive

McNeill Drive

Langan Drive

Racecourse View (originally Banks Drive)

Carroll Drive

Benson Drive (demolished 2009)

Yeats Drive

Collery Drive

John Fallon Drive

Joe McDonnell Drive.

The estate has two main access points with entrances from the Cranmore road to the north and Cleveragh road to the south, it also has/had walking entrances on:

Cranmore Place (now a storage site for builders)

Joe McDonnell Drive (recently rebuilt with adjacent house)

Collery Drive

There has always been a small crime problem on the estate with car theft, muggings and breaking and entering the most common; this has led to the installation of 10 CCTV cameras funded by the RAPID program located around the estate for crime prevention and there is often a Garda Síochána presence in the estate.

The estate has had three unsolved brutal murders in recent times including two men gunned down and the third attacked with a hatchet.

Houses of known drug dealers and criminals on the estate have been subject to gun attacks.

There have been numerous drug seizures by Gardaí throughout the area's history.