National Heritage Week, Ireland’s annual celebration of built, natural and cultural heritage, will take place from 20th to 28th August. This year Roscommon County Council is inviting you to explore 100 Years of Heritage and take a journey back through one hundred years of Ireland, discovering the lives of those who came before us. In this …
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St. John’s Parish Heritage Group are hosting a talk on Memorial Art on Headstones in Kilcommon Ancient Graveyard in St. John’s Community Centre, Lecarrow on Wednesday May 11th at 8pm. This informative illustrated lecture will be delivered by Mary B. Timoney M.A. & M.I.A.I. Author of “Had Me Made”, study of headstone art in County …
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The Athleague Fuerty Heritage Group is calling on the public to look through their family collections for any Photos, Letters, Maps, Roll Books, Medals, Equipment etc. relating to the history of Athleague and Fuerty. The group are looking to photocopy, scan and record items brought to them for an exhibition of items relating to the …
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The April Meeting of St John’s Parish Heritage Group will take place on Tuesday next, April 26th, at 8pm in the Heritage Room of St. John’s Community Centre, Lecarrow.
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, has announced a new grant scheme to aid the conservation of traditional farm buildings on GLAS farms. GLAS is the new agri-environment scheme for Irish farmers, to which nearly 40,000 farmers have already signed-up, and this new element to that scheme will help ensure …
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On Easter Monday the people of Ballymoe, Ballintubber and surrounding areas converged on the old Garda (and RIC) Barracks in Ballymoe to attend a commemoration ceremony for Éamonn Ceannt and The Easter Rising 1916. Picture Credits: Glynn’s Photography, Castlerea It was in that building that Eamonn Ceannt, one of the seven signatories of the 1916 …
The story of Roscommon native Brigid Lyons is among those set to be told in a major exhibition at NUI Galway entitled ‘A University in War and Revolution 1913-1919’ which offers a glimpse into the lives of many individuals from the University caught up in the historic events of the era. The exhibition will be …
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The story of Crosna man Paddy Moran, who fought at Jacob’s Factory in 1916 and was later executed for his role in the War of Independence features in a new series of short films produced by RTÉ The theme of the series is that every county in Ireland has a connection with the 1916 Rising …
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Roscommon people can now search Easter Rising Records online for first time thanks to a new, free, service from Ancestry.ie Picture caption; Letter written by Padraig Henry Pearse to his mother Margaret. For the first time in history these significant intelligence files regarding key figures in the 1916 Rising are being made available online to the Irish public. …
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The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (DAHG) is continuing the Structures at Risk Fund for 2016 and groups in Roscommon are being invited to make applications through Roscommon County Council. The purpose of the Structures at Risk Fund (SRF) is to assist with works to safeguard structures protected under the Planning and Development …
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Ballintleva Handball Alley is among five monuments throughout the country which have been chosen in Ireland’s first-ever Adopt a Monument national competition. Over 90 community groups around the country applied to adopt a monument through the scheme, which has been organised by the Heritage Council in conjunction with Abarta Heritage to support public access to …
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250 Years of Roscommon Parish Records, from all the Dioceses which cover the county, are now available online at Ancestry, the world’s largest online family history resource. Ancestry, the world’s largest online family history resource, has made 10 million historic Catholic Parish records from Ireland available online and are providing free access to all Irish …
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A meeting of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society will take place on Tuesday next, March 8th at 8.30pm in the Percy French Hotel, Strokestown. A lecture will take place on the subject of the Black Pigs Dyke by Coilin O’Driscoll of Kilkenny Archaeology. The Black Pigs Dyke project was funded by a number …
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Roscommon County Council is inviting applications for their Community Heritage Bursary and Heritage Research Bursary for 2016. “This year we are seeking applications which relate to the themes and strands of the Ireland 2016 national events so we are looking forward to some exciting and interesting applications which will make a great contribution to the …
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