heritage centres roscommon

The Roscommon Heritage and Genealogical Centre offers a family research service to people with County Roscommon roots. There is a permanent display dealing with Roscommon surnames, around which a series of historical and heritage exhibitions are held each season.

The Church of Ireland church, in which the centre is housed, contains an octagonal nave, a unique architectural feature of its period in Ireland.The centre is open to deal with genealogy all year round, but there is no exhib...

King House, built by Sir Henry King about 1730 is a house of unique architectural and historical importance.

Situated on the Boyle River, within the town of Boyle, it occupies land formerly controlled by the MacDermot Clan and is the most important provincial town house in Ireland.

Home to the Connaught Rangers regiment from 1788 and the Irish Army since then, recent extensive restoration has brought King House back to its former glory.

With the aid of exciting special...

This former Church of Ireland built in 1819, is on the site of an earlier church dating back to 1754. The heritage centre is sited in the heart of Roscommon near the great complex of monuments at Royal Rathcroghan, the birthplace of Percy French, the ancient Cathedral site if Elphin and a host of other notable antiquities.

The centre houses an interpretative Display on Pagan Celtic Society in Pre-Christian Ireland, on the monuments of Rathcroghan and the display also focuses on the epi...

Travelling north-west from Cootehall, the visitor reaches Knockvicar, where O'Sullivan Beare, with his weary 35 followeres out of 1,000 who left west Cork, rested on the last night before reaching O'Rourke's Castle at Leitreim Village....