1. How much money do I send with my booking form?

You must send €750.00 along with your booking form. €300.00 is for a security deposit, which is refundable pending the satisfactory return of your licensing arrangement at the end of term. €350.00 is non-refundable (once you take up residence) - €250.00 covers all utilities and the remaining €200.00 is a contribution towards your energy account. Depending on your energy usage you may need to pay more.

2. Can SALA cancel an application or booking?

SALA reserves the right not to accept or to cancel an application/booking, without explanation, at any time up to issue of a licensing agreement.

3. Who are payments made payable to?

All cheques, banker’s drafts, postal orders should be made payable to ‘SALA’.

4. How do I pay for my energy?

You will receive a bi-monthly summary of energy usage. In the event you exceed your energy allocation you must remit the amount due as advised on or before the appointed date. Your energy bill must always be paid on time, lest your supply is cut off. You will receive more information about this matter when you take up your residence. N.B. It is the apartment in which you reside and NOT your individual room that’s metered. You are jointly and severally liable for the energy usage in your apartment.

5. Can I get Internet/WiFi in my apartment/room?

Yes, this is included in your accommodation fees.

6. How are roommates allocated?

If you have a friend you wish to share with, SALA will endeavour to facilitate you together, if the request is clearly marked on both application forms. Otherwise roommates are allocated based on sex, academic year, course of education and age. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to facilitate all requests.

7. Do I have to leave my apartment at Christmas time and Easter?

No, you enjoy the use of your room/apartment for the duration of your licensing arrangement.

8. What happens if I pay for accommodation and fail to take up a place at St. Angela’s College?

In a case where an applicant has paid the booking/application fee, first accommodation fee or the annual accommodation fee in full and fails to be offered a place in St. Angela’s College, the full amount paid is refunded. In a case where an applicant has paid the booking/application fee, first accommodation fee or the annual accommodation fee in full and decides not to take up a place in St. Angela’s College, the full amount paid is refunded. The onus is on the applicant to inform management as required.

9. How soon must I confirm my reservation?

You are advised to make a reservation immediately. Act now! Forward the booking form + your deposit (€650.00) without delay to the address specified on the form. Receipt of your form and deposit will be made by return. Your reservation will be confirmed at the earliest practicable date following publication of CAO. N.B. Remember, your 1st accommodation fee payment must be paid in full per your licensing arrangement prior to taking up a residency.

10. Can I book by telephone?

No, you can only apply in the prescribed manner as specified above.

11. Is there a curfew?

No, there is no curfew. Residents can come and go as they please, subject to our COVID-19 protocol (see below). However, we do advise that residents always carry their student identification with them.

12. What time do visitors have to leave?

No visitors are allowed in SALA save as specified in our COVID-19 protocol (see below).

13. Can I obtain my apartment number or roommate details before check-in?

Your apartment number is provided to you when you receive your licensing arrangements. No roommate details are provided.

14. Does SALA provide insurance for my belongings?

No, you must take out your own insurance cover on your belongings.

15. Can a room be allocated for part of an academic year?

Your room is allocated per the terms of your licensing arrangement. You are liable for this period even if you do not reside in SALA for all of it.

16. When is the 2nd accommodation fee payable (staged-payments option)?

The 2nd accommodation fee payment is due no later than December 12, 2020.

17. When is the 3rd accommodation fee payment due (staged-payments option)?

The 3rd accommodation fee payment is due no later than February 11, 2021.

18. What is the duration of an academic year in SALA?

Usually from September to May annually, but please refer to the terms of your licensing arrangement when received.

19. Does SALA have a COVID-19 protocol?

Please read below.

Protocols/COVID-19 Environment

The below are in addition to our standard protocols/provisions/terms

The below will be reviewed as required by Management

• No overnight stopovers are allowed including by a parent. This applies to the night of induction. There is NO exception to this.
• Face masks should be used in apartments, common areas, the shop, recreation room and gymnasium (when in use).
• A 6/15 rule will apply to all 3-beds i.e. no more than 6 persons to congregate in a 3-bed, and no more than 15 persons in a common area.
• A 8/15 rule will apply to all 4-beds i.e. no more than 8 persons to congregate in a 4-bed, and no more than 15 persons in a common area.
• On induction day, one parent/next friend may accompany you to your apartment, for a maximum period of 2 hours.
• You are not permitted to receive visitors (including a parent) except in the shop and/or the recreation room area.
• No college colleagues or friends may visit you in your apartment including during breaks in classes, lunchtime etc.
• No parties are allowed.
• You will be required to complete a ‘questionnaire’ and a ‘contact tracing form’ at point of induction.
• Breach of any of the above terms after enquiry/fair procedures may result in your expulsion from SALA with full loss of your booking deposit and the residue of all accommodation fees paid.
• The above terms will form part of your licensing agreement and the code of conduct. Where conflict arises the terms of your licensing agreement will prevail.

Living Area

• Single and double seat sofas
• Coffee table
• TV & Telephone
• Shared dinette
• Recessed lighting
• Security intercom
• Wood floor
• Electric Oak/ Marble Fireplace

Kitchen

• Oak shaker-effect units
• Granite Worktop
• Fridge freezer
• Oven
• Hob
• Extractor fan
• Microwave
• All utensils, cutlery and delph
• Ironing board and iron
• Tiled floor

Ensuites

• Fully tiled walls
• Under floor heating to tiled floor
• Extractor fan
• Shaving socket
• Vanity Unit

Hallway

• Generous Storage Space

Bedrooms

• All ensuite
• Fitted wardrobes
• Study desk and chair
• Broadband internet & Wifi
• Timber floor

Common Circulation Areas:

• Lift access to all floors
• Spacious circulation areas
• All floor areas finished with high quality tile

External Features:

• Roof terrace to all Blocks
• Stainless steel glazed railings
• Cedar cladding and Stone finish to part of elevations

On-site facilities:

• Administration and Reception Office
• Convenience Shop
• Launderette
• Gymnasium
• Recreation room
• On site parking

St. Angela’s College enjoys one of the most scenic and tranquil locations imaginable on the shores of beautiful Lough Gill overlooking the Lake Isle of Innisfree.

The college campus is set in 80 wooded acres overlooking Lough Gill. The campus is only a few minutes from Sligo City, which is a vibrant and rapidly growing social, cultural and commercial centre, with good road, rail and air access.

Here students can benefit from the splendid location and community-like atmosphere of the College. The accommodation on the shores of Lough Gill is surrounded by natural unspoiled countryside and within 10km of sandy beaches and seaside resort towns. Sligo is a haven for enthusiasts of sailing, swimming, surfing and fishing and is also well served for such sports as golf, football, equestrian and GAA.

Hazelwood House is an 18th-century Palladian style country house located in a 70-acre (28 ha) demesne in the parish of Calry, some 2 miles (3 km) south-east of the town of Sligo.

It consists of a 5-bay by 3-bay main block in three storeys with 2-storey wings on either side connected to the main block by single-storey quadrants. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with slate roofs.

In 1940 the house was occupied by the Irish Army's 12th Cyclist Squadron and served as their barracks until January 1945.

In 1946 it was sold to the Department of Health for use as a psychiatric hospital.

Distance from St Angela’s: 5.3km

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelwood_House,_Sligo 

• The main post office in Sligo Town is situated at the top of O'Connell Street, Sligo Town's main shopping street.
• The Post Office (co-ordinates 54.27230 -8.47560) is a modest two storey red-brick building built in 1901, until a decade or so ago, this building also housed Sligo Town's mail sorting facilities.
• The Post Office stands on the site formerly known as Fish Corner, home to Sligo's fishmongers until 1885 when an official fish market was built here.
• The fish market closed down in 1901 when the present day Post Office was built.
• The tall thin building which can be seen a few yards down the side road to the right of the Post Office, was the manual Telephone Exchange, another casualty of modern times.
• Many years ago, the statue of Mr P.A. McHugh, the Nationalist owner of 'The Sligo Champion' newspaper stood in the middle of the road here, the statue now stands outside Sligo Town Hall.

Distance from St Angela’s: 8km

Link: http://www.sligotown.net/sligo-post-office.shtml 

• The statue above is a memorial in bronze, erected at Sligo Harbour in 1997 to mark the 150th anniversity of 'Black '47'.
• The family are shown comforting one another, and the child points to the New Land to which they will sail.
• More than 30,000 people left Sligo for new lives abroad between the years 1847 and 1851.
• This sculpture is one of three commissioned by the Sligo Famine Commemoration Committee.
• In the background, a plaque displays a 'Letter to America, January 2, 1850'. Owen Larkin did not know, when he wrote the letter, that his son was already dead.

Distance from St Angela’s: 7.5km

Link: http://www.irishhistorylinks.net/pages/SligoFamineMemorial.html

A lasting reminder of the poor wretched adults and children who died of starvation or disease, during the Great Famine of Ireland, between 1845 and 1847.

The sculpture located inside the graveyard, named "A lone bush", which looks like a very windswept tree, was erected in 1997 by the County Sligo Famine.

Fred Conlon chose "a lone bush" as a suitable memorial for the famine dead, saying that "this bush was regarded as a sacred object in rural Ireland, no farmer would cut it down lest it would upset the spirits.

During famine times many starving people lay down under it to die or were buried there. The tree was a sacred marker or protector of the unnamed dead.

Distance from St Angela’s: 13km

Link: http://www.sligotown.net/famine-graveyard.shtml?i=1

• This High Cross stands at 3.83 metres and both the east and west side feature animals in high relief.
• On the west face the subjects include the Presentation in the Temple and the Crucifixion.
• The east face Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Daniel in the Lions' Den and a Lion in high relief. At the head is possibly Christ in Glory.
• The south side of the shaft features the only icon of the Virgin and Child on an Irish High Cross.
• The stonemason seems to have portrayed a camel on the cross which is an unusual feature. The narrow edges are also richly carved with ornament and figure carving.
  
   

Distance from St Angela’s: 13km

Link: http://www.megalithicireland.com/High%20Cross%20Drumcliffe.htm

• Classiebawn Castle is a country house built for Viscount Palmerston on what was formerly a 10,000-acre (4,000 ha) estate on the Mullaghmore peninsula near the village of Cliffoney, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland.
• The current castle was largely built in the 19th century.
• It was designed in the Baronial style by J. Rawson Carrol, a Dublin-based architect, and is constructed from a yellow-brown sandstone brought by sea from County Donegal. It comprises a gabled range with a central tower topped by a conical roofed turret.
• In 1916 the house was cleared and remained empty until 1950.  It was inherited by Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma in 1939 who, with her husband Admiral of the Fleet The 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, made a number of improvements, installing electricity and a mains water supply.
• After his wife's death in 1960, Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, spent his summers there until his death when his boat was blown up off the coast of Mullaghmore by the IRA in August 1979.
  
  

Distance from St Angela’s: 32km

Link: http://mullaghmore-active.blogspot.ie/2011/10/classibawn-castle-and-its-owners.html