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!
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 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.
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.
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 love this little town. Just spent two weeks there.
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 .
John Conway roscommon and Athlone are good spots with decent shops pubs restaurants but Longford has become quite rundown in recent years
+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.
great wee tour thank you. You have the perfect voice for tv or radio work.
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!
In a place called Darren or something?
My mum used to work there
I traced my Hertitage to Roscommon today. Left Ireland mid 1800s to Liverpool. Any Roscommon locals know of any Clarke’s today?
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 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.
Thanks for posting this.... the best city ireland!!!!
It's not a city
Not a city
Great footage...was this filmed in 2012...looks a bit older..
I have good lembraças this place, I have worked in Roscommon, I'm Brazilian
Thanks for posting this. I was born in Roscommon.
I was born in Roscommon now live in UK. Great to see this
I was born in
roscommon... And I still live in roscommon 🙂🙂🙂
My roots are from Co. Roscommon too. Slainte!
I love this City
Maik Arce this is not a city
Maik Arce I live in Balbirggan
this is not a city
Kind of looks like Newport, Charleville and Listowel mixed together
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
My ancestors came from Roscommon.
Nice tour of Roscommon Town.
Thank you for sharing and thanks to sessnazx for sending.
Inspiring. This video made me realise who I really am. Sensational.
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?.
get outside of the town and it’s all green hills as far as the eye can see .
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...
have a driving test there so thought watching this might help :)
is there a place near Rosscommom called Ballahadreen probably i have got the spelling wrong lol,
Yes it's 40 mins away in the north of the county
ok thanks, I am trying to find someone who's family live there and I have lost touch with.
ricky latta that's where my grandfather grew up!! Dignan.
Ms Kelly Lives in Roscommon
PotatoChipBaby alot of them do
Abbey national school
I have been to Roscommon USA 🇺🇸
It's a local town for local people.
i get lost in all these roundabouts
Omg I live in Roscommon and I'm watching in 2017 and in 2017 its way better there more shop's around the roundabout and stuff like that!!!
Emma Kearns i live in rosscomon
Samee
The most depressing town in Ireland
dave davey far from it😂
dave davey I live there and ur fucking right it’s absolutely shite
@@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.
nice town......
I hope that you have learned to enter and exit a round-a-bout properly since you made this video.
Ballygar by far
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