County Roscommon, highlighted.
Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Roscommon’s past.
People connected to County Roscommon
- Turlough O’Connor, High King of the Waterways
- The Gunning Sisters – Irish Beauties at the Georgian Court
- Sir John Conroy (1786-1854) – Childhood Nemesis of Queen Victoria
- Billy the Kid (1859-1882)
- John Walsh & the Connaught Rangers
- George ‘McIrish’ McElroy, Irish Air Ace
Vanishing Ireland (Roscommon people)
County Roscommon – Family Histories
Bruen of Boyle- Musgrave of Derrinasoo & Tumna
- O’Connor of Clonalis
County Roscommon – Places
Articles with a Roscommon Connection
- An tSlí Mhór (The Great Way) and the Esker Riada
- The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
- From Holy Jerusalem to Holy Tuam: The True Cross, The Cult of John the Baptist and King Turlough O’Connor
- The Normans on the Irish Waterways
- The Cistercian Order in Ireland
- Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar – The Irish Experience
- Murder in Roscommon – The Assassinations of the Rev. John Lloyd and Major McMahon, 1847
- The Burning of Knockcroghery, 1921
- The Big Snow of 1947, 1963, 1982 … and other major Snowstorms
- Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
- Waterways Through Time
Past Tracks – Roscommon