Roscommon Genealogy Tours
My Ireland Heritage find your Ancestors and exact house location from the 1700’s to the late 1800’s, and all available records in Ireland. We are an Irish family business dedicated to assisting you in your Irish Genealogy research for your roots and records of your family history of past generations in Roscommon, as well as providing you with a once in a lifetime Irish Genealogy tour experience to visit your families original family house and Walk in the Footsteps of your Irish Ancestors.
Sean and the Team at My Ireland Heritage are a Government certified & approved Genealogy & Touring Company, and will personally guide you on the journey into your Irish ancestry to any County in Ireland.
Many companies are genealogy research only, many companies are touring companies only, we at My Ireland Family Heritage are proud to be able to encompass your research and tour together enabling us to work with you throughout the process to customize your tour with you and for you. To achieve a full genealogy tour experience consider adding one of our one-day historical tours.
Our Tours
Our Ancestral Townland Experience Tours
County Roscommon, bordered by the River Shannon and dotted with lakes like Lough Key, is a quieter midlands county whose farming communities experienced significant emigration relative to their size, particularly from the Famine period onward. Roscommon’s history includes deep Gaelic roots, most notably the O’Conor family, historically associated with the last High Kings of Ireland, alongside the more typical pattern of small tenant farms that defined much of rural Ireland.
Roscommon’s parishes are generally rural and closely tied to their local landscape, and as with most counties, the civil parish printed on an old record doesn’t always match the actual church your family attended. We work through surviving parish, graveyard and Griffith’s Valuation records to confirm your family’s true location, cross-referencing neighbouring families and local knowledge to ensure accuracy, particularly in areas where the same surnames repeat across several townlands.
A Roscommon tour takes you through peaceful countryside around Lough Key and the county’s smaller market towns, ending at your family’s specific townland. For descendants of Roscommon emigrants, this quieter, less-visited part of Ireland often provides a particularly authentic and unhurried sense of the world your ancestors left behind.
- Roscommon has 6 baronies
- Roscommon has 62 Civil Parishes
- Roscommon has 110 Electoral Divisions
- Roscommon has 2081 Townlands
- Roscommon has 93 sub townlands
County Roscommon is part of the province of Connacht. Its county town and largest town is Roscommon. The population of the county is 64,065 according to the 2011 census.
It is the third largest of Connacht’s five counties by size and fourth largest in terms of population. The county borders every other Connacht county – Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim statistically, Roscommon has the longest life expectancy of any county on the island of Ireland. No other County in Ireland can show the ravages of the great famine better than Roscommon. Around every corner is an old House Ruin or a defensive Hill settlement 2000 years old know as a Rath and one of the finest examples is Rathcroghan.
County Roscommon is named after the county town of Roscommon. Roscommon comes from the Irish Ros meaning a wooded, gentle height and Comán, the first abbot and bishop of Roscommon who founded the first monastery there in 550 AD.
Family Dynasties 1500-1600 AD
- Irish – McDermott, MacRannell, O’Connor, McGovern
- Norman – None
- Scottish – None
- Viking – None
County Roscommon – Things to do and may be possible to include within your Ancestral Townland Experience Tour
- Arigna Mining Experience
- Rathcroghan
- Irelands Ancient East
- Lough Key Forest Park (Boyle)
- Boyle Abbey (Boyle)
- Strokestown Park National Irish Famine Museum (Strokestown)
- Roscommon Castle (Roscommon)
- Roscommon County Museum (Roscommon)
- Roscommon Friary
- Cloontykilla Castle (Boyle)
- Drumanone Portal Tomb (Boyle)
- Gaelic Chieftain Sculpture (Boyle)
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Roscommon connected to Ireland's ancient High Kings?
Yes, the O’Conor family of Roscommon are historically associated with the last High Kings of Ireland, though most family research in the county involves the more typical pattern of tenant farming families.
Are Roscommon's records harder to find than in more populous counties?
Not necessarily, though rural parishes require careful local knowledge to interpret correctly, which is where our fieldwork experience helps.
Can a Roscommon tour include Lough Key?
Yes, this is a natural scenic addition to a Roscommon itinerary, alongside your family’s specific townland.
