Roscommon Cemeteries Mapviewer
Roscommon County Council gets a lot of queries from people trying to find out where their relatives are buried and asking for information on historic graveyards around the county. In response to this, we have developed an online Cemeteries Mapviewer which we hope will assist people.
John McManus US Passport
This record, if from Kilgarve Townland in County Roscommon, at the Griffith Valuations and the census for the area and there are no McManuses living on the Townland.
Tennison Land Records 1836
Here is an article from our old journal about the Tennison land records and a Francis McManus from a Townland called Killgarfein was located, this maybe Kilgarve Townland.
Maguires, Descedants of Magnus
Maguires, One of the two principal septs of the name in Ireland
Roscommon Tourism Video
I highly recommend watching this recently uploaded video on youtube by the Roscommon County Council
The McManus’s of Ardnanure and Nure
The arrival of a number of McManus families to settle in Ardnanure and Nure would have gone unnoticed and indeed unrecorded were it not for Nure’s great local Historian the Late Kieran McManus (1874-1973) who related to Folklore Collector James Delaney in 1961 that several centuries ago, the McManus’s in Nure and Ardnanure hailed from the North of Ireland.
Hercules MacManus
This is some of the early history of the family. There are links yet to be made, but it struck me as unusual that when a child was born in trim or Dublin the newspaper notice was always put in the Belfast Newsletter and not in the Dublin papers.
Mary McManus
Happy Birthday Aunt Mamie ! Mary “Mamie” McManus was born on the 12 May 1886 in New York City, New York
