Union Rock is a popular viewing point in Co. Sligo, offering spectacular views of Ballisodare & Sligo Bay, Knocknarea, and Benbulbin, located in a popular local forest containing walking trails and wildlife including a large number of deer.
Union rock gets its name from the story of a Union flag being flown from the rock during British rule over Ireland, and was the scene of the Battle of Carricknagat, back in 1798, when French and Irish forces defeated a force British troops near Collooney, where a young Bartholomew Teeling singled handedly disabled a canon located on Union Rock, there is statue to him erected in nearby Collooney, with Teeling street in Sligo town also named after him.
Union rock is also a stop on The Sligo Way walking trail, a 74km waymarked trail that traverses the county of Sligo, from Lough Talt to Dromahair in Co. Leitrim and passing along the way Innisfree, the island made famous by poet W.B. Yeats.