I used to holiday here visiting my Uncle Jim and Aunty Margaret Hanly in the 80's, lovely little town then. Now having watched this video 40 yrs later I wouldn't know my way around at all! It has changed ten fold. Their son Patsy and his wife Pauline lived on the Circular Road(it got mentioned!). I remember the Courthouse and there was a Bar I used to frequent right opposite but the name is lost sadly. Ah well this is progress I'm afraid and maybe better for the new generation that lives there now but for me I prefered the olde way of Roscommon Town. Thank you for filming a great little town of its day even though its changed beyond resemblance for me. Slainte
How are ya Joe, your lovely video just transported me back home BUT looks like all the Streets expanded!. Ah you didn't go down Abbey Street, that's where I lived, we're talking in the 80's Joe and Roscommon was a sweet country town back then. Moira and Chris were my dear friends and neighbours (The Holly Tree) . Thanks bunches for uploading this video, it made me smile. Good luck and God Bless, hope to hear back from you. ☘ ~Eileen~
I am from Cork and, after years and years of holidaying in Europe, I am going to visit some Irish towns I have never been to in the summer of 2018. Roscommon will be one of three towns I will visit on my first trip (Longford and Athlone are the other two). It looks like a really lovely place and I am so looking forward to visiting . Thank you for posting this video .
+Niall Hickey Thank you for the reply . I think I will go to see Longford anyway . It won't be the only rundown place I have ever visited or am likely to ever visit in the future :-) . There's a certain charm to these towns I think.
Inspiring town full of lovely people! Love the Lamb festival and the buskers in Harrison Court. Shoutout to the great team at the Roscommon Disability Support Group, all lovely people there!
My ancestors are from County Roscommon...McMannis. The spelling has changed generation to generation...McManus, McMannus, McMannis. Covid shut down prevented me from going to Roscommon next month. Maybe next time the tour is offered, and all the shops of Roscommon are open, I will make the trip. I need to find my ancestor who came to America.
I don't live In Roscommon but my parents are from there but I do go over a couple times a year and from what they told me Clarke's but could be more than one Clarke's but they where one of the main employers of the town way back when and not sure if they still own the big stone house on the edge of town on the circular road....
My great grandparents moved to the states in 1900. Would love to know buldings/homes that would have been there around that time. Is there a Fallon parish? I think that is where they are from
I'm a lil bit shocked..my mother is from Roscommon..she left in 1958 to a nanny in Boston..I'm from suburb of Boston. I imagined it so differently. My mother described rolling Green hills and streams..my grandparents didn't even own cars..I mean I guess that was long ago..but the buildings seem as though they've been there for centuries. So I suppose she wanted us to have the best image of Ireland's lands..but shit...I luv Boston..why wouldn't I luv a city in ireland?.
If you haven't been how can you comment.. That showed a town like any town In the world there would be no green hills or what ever you said .. I go over regular as my parents was from there and it's a lovely place to go there are places that this guy missed out the golf course the race course the castle and so much more outside the town in the surrounding area...
@@bae2585 Roscommon is home to some of the most barren towns in the country. Castlerea is almost entirely empty and Boyle isn't an awful lot better. It says a lot when your three main towns are all mediocre at best.
