Index 1986-2019 by Tom Norton MA

September 2019

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Index to Co. Historical and Archaeological Society Journal, 1986-20191

Tom Norton

(Tom Norton was born in Roscommon Town and lived on Claw Inch island on until the late 1940s. Later, he went to school in Galway. He now works in Hampshire, England, as a freelance indexer and English teacher).

The definite and indefinite articles are ignored in the alphabetical arrangement but are not inverted. For example, ‘The Famine’ will be found under ‘F’.

The form of reference is volume number, followed by the page number. For example, ‘7.13’ is a reference to volume number 7, page 13.

Volume/year numbers are as follows: 1=1986, 2=1988, 3=1990, 4=1992, 5=1994, 6=1996, 7=1998, 8=2000, 9=2002, 10=2006, 11=2009, 12=20132, 13=2016, 14=2019

1798 Rising and Col James Plunkett 7.100–1 memoirs 7.112–13 souvenir jewellery, advertisement, 1898: 7.13 Acheson, George R., photo 14.5 advertisements cornflour (1916) 13.156 farmhouse (1903) 9.118 Ford car (1916) 13.154 oil lamps (1916) 13.153 patent medicines (1890s) 7.36 patent medicines (1916) 13.152 servants encouraged to enlist (1915) 13.71 souvenir jewellery (1898) 7.13 agrarian violence ‘Agrarian violence in Kilbride & Kilgefin 1843-1844 13.43–5 Land League, and agrarian crime 9.59–61 land wars 12.51–60 ‘Roscommon Agrarian Unrest 1881-82’ 12.35–8

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agricultural labourers, Co Roscommon 11.19–21 American Civil War, Irish soldiers, photo 14.164 An Coiméadaí, ‘A Cashel Plotted on Map in 1813’ 5.77 Anderson, Audrey, ‘The Old Barracks, Roscommon’ 3.21–3 Andrews, Sara, ‘Yesterday’ (memoir) 4.74 Anglo-Irish lordships, 15th century, map 5.35 archaeological survey, Roscommon Co. 2.63 archaeology, Bypass road project 13.81–7 Ardakillen lake, crannog 1.53 Ardcarne 7.55–7 and the Famine 6.91–4 coal mining 10.90 culm, as domestic fuel 10.137–9 arms, search for, 19th century 6.97 ass, in car, photo 8.15 N.S., teacher training course (1923), photo 12.63 N.S. (1923), group photo 13.121 street scene (1920s), photo 2.50 bridges over Shannon (1556-1990) drawings 3.back cover canal (1925) 7.127–9 castle, central keep drawing 13.126 photo 13.122 constables 13.122–8 view from Shannon, photo 13.124 history, 19th century 8.64–6 military barracks, photo 12.106 Robinson’s Distillery 8.64–6 Aughnaderry N.S. (1922), group photo 9.62 Aughrim Protestant Church floor plan 14.11 graveyard plan 14.6 Lloyd monuments, photo 14.12 mural tablets, photo 14.12 Australia, headstones with Roscommon references 7.116–17

Ballagh Dowling family 12.127–31 N.S. (1948), boys group photo 12.45 N.S. (1953), group photo 10.111 Ballagh, Robert, painting of O’Donovan Rossa funeral 13.149 Ballaghaderreen aerial photo 13.81 3

Bypass road project 13.81–7 Cathedral of the Annunciation and St Nathy 14.150 mapping by Ordnance Survey, 19th century, 6.105-7, 109-11 Ballinagare Boys N.S. (1924), group photo 4.20 Castle, photo 4.18 Hermitage House 4.23 history 4.18–19 N.S. (1949), group photo 5.81 Stone 4.21 photo 5.81 poem about 4.22 Ballinamuck, Battle (1798) 14.163 Show (c.1928), group photo 5.12 Ballinderry graveyard, photo 11.106 Romanesque lintel, description & drawing 7.138 Ballindrumlea (Ballindrimley) 1790s 5.97–8 1930s 6.23 history 7.139–40 Ballinlig, Goat Island Crannog, photos 14, 71–2 Ballinlough Church of , photo 14.133 history 2.42 Isaac Weld on 14.133 Ballintemple, medieval cross, drawings 1.35, 2.58 Ballintubber (Ballintober) Castle architectural features, drawings 3.14 history 1.27, 29; 8.67 photo, 7.124; 8.67 memoir 8.104–6 political offenders, release of (1907), photo 14.190 raid on police barracks (1823) 3.5–7 St Bride’s Church 7.108-11; 8.67 photo 8.69 Wheel, 8.71, 72 Ballybay N.S. (1926), (1948) and (1950), group photos, 5.107; 14.73 , drawing 8.119 , bridge on River Suck, drawing 1.39 Ballygar 12.121–6 Ordnance map 14.99 St. Mary’s Church 14.99-104; 14.back cover village, lithograph (1863) 14.102 Ballyleague, midwife appointed 11.129–30 4

Ballymoe Bridge (River Suck), Samuel Owens plaque, drawing 2.53 Ballymurray N.S. (1926), photo 14.73 Quaker meeting house drawing 12.back cover photo 12.8 Ballymurray N.S. (1946), group photo 7.146 Ballyroddy N.S. (1949), photo 14.74 Banks, Patrick, Private, life & times 8.79 Banshee (Bean Sídhe) 1.53; 4.11–12 Barrett, Peter, death 14.113–14 Barton, Roy L., ‘Roscommon in History’ 5.6–10 basket, back, drawing 9.front cover Baslick Church, articles/photos, 11.116-21; 12.83–7 Bayley, David see Delaney, Shane Beaufort, Daniel Augustus, Rev, visit to Roscommon Town (1808) 7.24–5 bee boles, photo 13.8 Beechwood Famine Pot, photo 14.56 Beechwood House 14.54–9 entrance, photo 14.54 Beggan, Gerard ‘Ballygar - The Hy Many Royal Seat’ 12.121–6 ‘Historic Fords and Weirs on the River Suck’ 14.47–8 ‘Reclaiming the Spoils of Annwfyn’ 14.28–46 ‘The Carmelite House of Holy Cross, Slewshancough, Diocese of Elphin’ 13.111–15 ‘The Cruffon Trail’ 14.49–53 ‘The placename ‘Elphin’ and the book ‘Taliesin’ 13.116–17 Beirne, Francis, Fr ‘A Glance at Elphin in Earlier Times’ 1.30 ‘Introduction’, vol 2 of Journal 2.4 Bekkers, Fiona, ‘The Ring’ 7.75–8 Belfast 12.47 Marian Price, wall mural, photo 12.47 Titanic Centre, photo 12.47 Belleek Castle Hotel, photo 3.27 Berry, Peter, ‘Rural Life in the Forties’ 8.122–3 bestiary, drawing 5.72 Betty, Lady 3.27 bicycles, ladies without lights on 11.130 ‘Big Houses’, Roscommon Co. 3.41 see also King House; Mote Park House; Mount Pleasant House; Rathmoyle House; Roxboro House; Park House; Woodbrook House Bishop Hodson’s Grammar School, Elphin photo 1.30 Summer 1931, group photo 3.18 Black and Tans 5

activities in Galway Co 6.51–2 burning of description 3.28 photo, 4.10; 13.104 blacksmithing 8.109–10 bog burial, Derrymaquirk 4.71–2 bogs 1814 survey 5.77 Callow Bog 4.41–2 Creggane Bog trackways 4.41–2 Drummin Bog, discovery of churn 8.87 wooden vessels from 11.40–7 Boher, poem about 4.33 Boland, Harry drawing, 14.front cover elected T.D. for Sinn Féin in 1918, for South Roscommon 14.17–22 photo 14.17 Book of Taliesin 14.37 Bowery district, New York, photo 14.163 Boyce, Angela, ‘St John and St Anne Stained Glass Window: Cathedral of the Annunciation and St Nathy, Ballaghaderreen’ 14.150–1 Cistercian abbey, Romanesque arch drawing 1.front cover view 9.10 and the Famine 6.90 memoir 6.5 Rockingham House 12.12–16 photos 12.13,15 The Shambles 11.65–7 workhouse, inmate statistics 11.115 Boyle, Maura, ‘Growing Up in Ballintubber’ 8.104–6 Boyne Centre, cannon, photo 12.46 boys, wearing skirts, photo 4.13 Boys Town, Roscommon connection 1.29; 9.114–15 Bradley, John, ‘A Crannog At Loughnaneane, ’ 3.34–6 Brady, John ‘A Hundred Years On: St Bride’s Church, Ballintober’ 7.108–11 ‘An Unsolved Mystery - 1903’ 9.7–9 ‘Ballintubber by Reflection-A.D. 2000’ 8.67–9 ‘Ballintubber Castle’ 1.27, 29 ‘The Boys Town Connection-2002’ 9.114–15 ‘The City of Rogers: from Roscommon to Minnesota, USA’ (told by James Rogers) 10.70–1 ‘Father of Boystown’ 1.29 ‘Introduction’, Journal vol 9 9.3 Brady, Niall, Dr 6

‘Medieval Settlement Focus Moves to County Roscommon’ 9.65–6 ‘A New Study of Land Enclosure and Settlement in North Roscommon’ (co-author) 10.99–104 Brennan, Malachy, Canon, Very Reverend, ‘Troubled Curate Days’ (memoir) 6.51–2 Brennan, Mary, ‘The Groves of ’ (song) 5.94 Brennan, William J., Justice, life & times 8.103 Brestagh, Ogham Stone, photo 3.25 brick making, Roscommon Co. 10.16–20 brick mould, drawing 10.19 bridal party, pony and trap, photo 13.105 brideóg, drawing 9.back cover Brideswell cam font, photo 13.132 plaque 2.53 Bristol-Jones, Penny, photo 14.70 Bromell, John, photo 6.97 broom, byre drawing 9.front cover Browne, Raymond, Very Rev., Fr. ‘The Last Priests of Lisanuffy’ 6.19–22 ‘Part of Original Documentation...New church in Strokestown’ 7.130–1 Bumlin Parish, census, 1841-51: 11.95–6 burial rites, Roscommon Co. 10.34–5 Burke, Brian, ‘Private Patrick Banks, 1251 88th Regiment’ 8.79 Byrne, Liam ‘Roscommon Solstice Choir: a brief history of the first five years (2013 to 2018)’ 14.154–62 ‘The Roscommon Courthouse Fire of 1882 - A Contemporary Document’ 10.94 Byrne, William Augustine (veterinary surgeon) book of cures and remedies 4.75 life 2.30–2 Byzantine coin article 11.4 drawing 11.front cover

Cadiz, Lily, photo 14.14 Cadiz, Rosalind, photo 14.14 Cadiz sisters, photos 13.46 Cahill, Mary ‘The Gold Beads from Tumna, Co Roscommon’ 10.36–9 photo 14.72 Caldramoran race course (1859) 7.21 Callan, Denise, ‘King House’ 6.47 Callery, Jim, ‘Memories of Cloonahee’ 5.42–3 Caltra, Co Galway 6.51–2 Caltra cemetery, Ballinagare, gravestones 4.19 Cam census, 18th century 3.50–4 7

Co-operative Agricultural & Dairy Society Ltd 7.120–3 Canavan, Kitty, ‘Old St Peter’s (Athlone) 1795-1937’ 4.70 car, invoice (1940) 6.72 Carnacon House, Ballaghaderreen, photo 6.73 Carnadoe, poem about 5.66 Carnaska branch members of the University Interscholastic League, photo 12.131 church, bridal party, photo 13.105 carriage (19th century), photo 11.103 Carrick Classical Academy 11.77–9 Carroll, Angelina, ‘The Union Workshop in Cloonslanor’ (co-author) 5.85–8 Carrowcrin, medieval cross, drawing 1.34 Carrowntemple, medieval cross, drawings 1.34; 2.58 Carthy, Susan, ‘Disappearing Customs’ 8.121 Cartron, grave slabs 7.138 Casey, Michael, Canon, ‘Christmas in Long Ago’ 7.18–19 Casey’s Garage, Roscommon Town mechanics (1930s), photo 10.111 official opening (1952), photo 14.188 cashel, Coolteigue townland 5.77 Caslan Hills, pilgrimage, photos 14.64–7 Caslin, Leo, ‘List of Residents of Strokestown, 1920-1936’ 10.40–1 Cassidy, James, ‘Raheen Pipe Band’ 4.43–4 Castle St, Roscommon Town, shop scenes 6.114 (1900s), photo 7.76 (1920s), photos 7.95 Castle Tenison, photos 14.23–7 Boys N.S. (Dec 1948), group photo 13.47 Girls N.S. (Dec 1948), group photo 13.47 House 2.62 Mill 3.33 tower house 6.17 village 2.62 Castleisland, Carraig Mhic Diarmada, photo 9.13 Castlemore history 4.14 poem about 4.15 Church of Ireland N.S. (undated), photo 12.32 and (1939-1945) 5.63–4 fire brigade, late 1940s, photo 12.19 gold earrings, about 1200 BC, drawing 1.front cover history 2.47 Irish Volunteers, Main Street (1913), photo 12.96 map, end of 18th century 8.21–2 8

Mullarkey’s General Hardware Store, Main St, photo 12.73 and the Sandford family 5.99–101 water pump (1960), photo 13.48 workhouse 11.113–14 certificate of authorisation 5.22 inmate statistics 11.115 castles Argdgillan Castle, photo 14.153 Athlone Castle central keep drawing 13.126 photo 13.122 constables 13.122–8 view from Shannon, photo 13.124 Ballinagare Castle, photo 4.18 Ballintubber Castle 1.27, 29 drawings 3.14 Castle Tenison, , photos 14.23–7 Castleisland, photo 9.13 Cloghan Castle, drawing 1.front cover Donamon Castle 1.37; 5.47–8 Dundonnell Castle, photos 13.58–64 Gailey Castle 6.103–4 Kilronan castle, drawing 14.back cover Rindown Castle, 2.14; 11.28–33 Roscommon Castle 12.80–2 drawing 1.front cover map & tenants’ survey, about 1860 10.140–3 photo, 2.49; 12.80 Castlestrange, La Tène stone (about 100 BC) drawing 1.front cover photo 12.124 cattle fair, Roscommon Town (1953) 11.131 cavalry manoeuvres, Roscommon Co (1905) 10.6 cave, Rath Cruachain, drawing 1.front cover Ceannt, Eamonn biography 13.5 portrait, drawing 13.front cover Ceide, Co Mayo, cliffs, photo 3.26 Ceide Fields, Co. Mayo, Stone Age site, photo 3.26 census 1749 Bishop Synge’s 3.50–4 Cloontuskert Parish 9.27–36 1821, Roscommon Co. 7.34 1841-51 9

Bumlin Parish 11.95–6 Cloonfinlough Parish 11.96 Kiltrustan Parish 11.96 Lissonuffy Parish 11.96 Strokestown 11.95–7 1847, Elphin, destitution 8.89–91 1901, Kingstown, Roscommon connections 7.22–3 Chapman, Billy film collection 11.53–4 life 11.55 photo 11.55 Christianity, and Kilteevan (Kilkeevin) 5.54–7 Church of Ireland Kilgefin 11.80–2 N.S, Castlerea, photo 12.32 records 10.76 Church St, Roscommon Town 6.104 doorway plaque 2.64 history 3.63–4 churches Ardcarne 7.55–7 Aughrim church and graveyard 14.5–13 Baslick 11.116–21 Boher (Offaly) 11.37 and burial grounds, Kiltullagh, map 14.138 Cathedral of the Annunciation and St Nathy, Ballaghaderreen 14.150 Church of Ireland, Ballinlough, photo 14.133 Enniscrone, stained glass window 11.18 Holy Trinity, Kilkeevan, Castlerea, 5.18, 57 Kilcommon 11.72–6 Kilgefin 11.80–2 grave slab 6.back cover in Kilkeevan 5.54–7 Kilmore 6.25–6 memorial slabs 5.70–1 Kiltoom, 7.27-9, 31-3 Laherdane, stained glass windows, photos 11.16–17 Presbyterian, Roscommon Town 8.101–2 Sacred Heart, Roscommon, Cross of Cong (replica), photo 14.66 St Bride’s, Ballintober 7.108–11 St Coman’s, Roscommon Town 10.106 St John’s, Strokestown 1.5 St Joseph’s, Kilkeevan 3.36; 5.56–7 St Margaret’s (USA), stained glass window, photo 11.18 St Mary the Virgin, Elphin, drawing 4.68 St. Mary’s Church 14.99-104; 14.back cover 10

St Patrick’s, Knockcroghery 8.5–6 Urney 8.140–1 churn, discovery, in Drummin Bog 8.87 Cistercian abbey, Boyle, Romanesque arch, drawing 1.front cover clamps, wooden, drawing 9.back cover Clancy, Peter, photo 7.109 Clarke, Marie ‘The Appeal of the United Irish League in Co Roscommon 1903-7’ 5.73–5 ‘Graziers and Jobbers: A Case of Isolation or Integration, the Roscommon Experience’ 6.77–80 Clawinch Island, personal memories 7.79–80 clay pipe industry, Knockcroghery 1.45-6; 8.75; 13.100–4 clay pipes, assemblage 13.102–3 Clifford, Derek, ‘My Native Place During The ’ (Strokestown) 4.50 Cloghan Castle drawing 1.front cover sheela-na-gig, drawing 3.45 Clogher House 5.24–5 Clonburren (Clonburn) grave slab, drawing 4.front cover meeting of Kings of Ireland 8.88 cathedral doorway (1880s), photo 2.25 funeral route 6.70–1 Clonown (Cloonowen) flood (1954) 10.22–4 grave slab 4.front cover and the Shannon 3.64 Clontuskert (Cloontuskert) Abbey (1791) 9.29 grave slabs, 2.55-9; 4.front cover Parish, census (1749) 9.27–36 Cloonagh House, photo 6.100 Cloonahee House, photo 5.42 Clooncraff, graveyard 4.83; 5.89 Clooncullane N.S. (1924), group photo 4.13 Andrew Kirwan’s house, photo 14.134 mass path, photo 14.134 Cloonfinlough Parish, census (1841-51) 11.96 Cloonfree moated site 9.67–73 N.S. pupils at liturgical festival, 1950s, group photo 13.48 Cloonroan Boys’ N.S. (1924), group photo 5.64 Girls N.S. (1928), group photo 5.64 11

Cloonshanville Church Tower, photo 14.17 gargoyle, photo 14.170 Cloonshanville Dominican Priory article, 11.4-5, 22-5 ; 14.168–72 drawing 11.back cover photos 24, 11.22 Cloonslanor, workhouse 5.85–8 Cloontogher, ecclesiastical site 4.45–7 Cluain Coirpthe (Kilbarry) 6.89–90 co-operative movement, South Roscommon 7.120–3 coal mining, Arigna 10.90 Cogglebeg, prehistoric gold recovery 12.102–4 families involved, photo 12.103 Coleman, P.J., ‘Castlemore’ (poem) 4.15 Collins, Richard, ‘The Rinn Duin Project’ 12.27–32 Comeen, medieval cross, drawing 1.35 Commons, James 11.102–6 Compton, Susan, ‘St Coman’s Church, Roscommon’ 10.106 Conboy, Tony ‘Castlecoote and Castlecoote House’ 2.62 ‘Donamon Castle’ 1.37 ‘Remembering Master Moriarty and Castlecoote N.S. in the ‘50s’ 13.79–80 ‘St Coman’s Park - Roscommon’s famous GAA ground 1936-1968’ 129 concrete, Roscommon Co., early use 9.93 Cong, Cross of, drawing 1.front cover Congested Districts Board, and Lung River Drainage (1905) 7.84–5 Coningsby, Countess, drawing of Stubbs’ painting 1.8 Coningsby, Thomas, and daughters, portrait 14.122 Conmee, Julia, Mrs, photo 6.4 Connaught in 1612: 9.112–13 re-conquest under Elizabeth I 10.13–15 tribal groups, AD800 11.119 Connaught Rangers 4.24-6; 10.144–6 Connellan, Liam ‘Industrial Development in Co Roscommon’ 8.83–6 ‘Strokestown in the 1940s’ 2.61 Connellan, Thomas, life & times 10.78–81 Connolly, Donal, ‘Dr Douglas Hyde’ 2.18 Connolly, Joe ‘Some Interesting Notes on Ballindrumlea’ 7.139–40 ‘Sport and Work in Ballindrumlea’ (memoir) 6.23 Connolly, Padraig ‘Ballindrimley in the 1790s’ 5.97–8 ‘A Roscommon Connection With The French Revolution’ 3.19–20 12

Connolly, Sean, photo 12.136 Connor, Con, ‘In the footsteps of the noble Gael’ 13.19–22 Connor, Gene ‘Happy Times in Ballinagare’ (poem) 4.22 ‘Old Days of County Roscommon’ (poem) 6.120 Conradh na Gaeilge, group photo, Quaker Island (1909) 8.61 Conroy, Elizabeth, wedding photo 8.23 Conry, Florence 12.89–95 Conry, Michael J., ‘Burning Culm as a Domestic Fuel in Arigna - With a Difference’ 10.137–9 Conry’s Turret, photo 5.43 Convent of Mercy Roscommon 1951, photo 14.188 Roscommon, teachers’ class 1910/1913, group photo 3.64 convict ship, Neptune, drawing 13.43 Conway, Dominic, Dr (), forward, vol 1 of Journal 1.3 Coolnageer townland 11.26–7 Coolteigue, cashel 5.77 Coote estate 14.109 copper-alloy pins, photo 14.72 Cork, Co Roscommon, connections 10.53–4 corn mills, history 8.92–4 Corr, Edmond A., ‘The Corr’s of Durham’ 14.94 cottages, traditional, 8.37, 39, 41 Cousins, Margaret group photo 13.31 photo 14.14 Cox, James Joseph, stained glass windows 11.16–18 Coyle, Maura, ‘How Women Won the Right to Vote-Roscommon Women’s Role’ 14.14–16 Coyne, Ferdy ‘The Burning of Knockcroghery’ 3.28 ‘Knockcroghery Clay Pipes’ 1.45–6 ‘The Knockcroghery Pioneer Pipe Band’ 6.27–8 ‘Nineteenth Century Cures and Remedies’ 4.75 photo 12.88 ‘St Patrick’s Church, Knockcroghery’ 3.28 ‘Scregg House, Killinvoy, Co Roscommon’ 9.98–100 tribute to 12.88 ‘William Augustine Byrne’ (photos) 2.30–2 Coyne, Maureen, ‘Ferdinand Coyne’ 12.88 Coyne’s Quarry, photo 14.107 cradle, child’s, drawing 9.front cover crannogs Ardakillen lake 1.53 Goat Island, photos 14.71.2 Lough Gara 6.13–15 Loughnaneane (drawings) 3.34–6 13

Crean, Thomas, photo 6.4 Cregameen townland 8.17–20 Cregan, Peter, execution 12.18 Cregga 8.80–2 Creggane Bog 4.41–2 Creggs, visit by Parnell 2.19–20 Creighton, Seamus, ‘The Lloyds Of Croghan House’ 3.15–17 crime, agrarian, and the Land League 9.59–61 Crofton, Augusta Caroline, photographer 2.54 Crofton family 9.111 photo 1.22 Croghan House 3.15–17 Croghan, Stephen, blacksmith 8.109 Croker, Bithia, portrait, 11.81-82; 13.30 Cronin, Timothy obituary 2.9 ‘The Town of Roscommon’, 2.5, 7-9 Cross of Cong (replica), Sacred Heart Church, Roscommon, photo 14.66 crosses Comeen 1.35 Coolusty 1.34; 2.58 Cross of Cong (replica), photo 14.66 Derrane churchyard, 17th century, drawing 5.front cover Emlagh, about 1400 AD, drawing 1.front cover; 8.front cover John Travers Celtic Cross, photo 14.107 medieval, in Co Roscommon 1.33-5; 2.58 St Brigid’s, drawing 9.back cover Tully Lough Cross article 10.4 drawing 10.front cover Crossley Tender vehicle, photo 12.137 Cruachan Aì Visitor Centre, see under Rathcroghan crucifixion plaque, St Coman’s well description 7.4 drawing 7.front cover Cruffon 14.49–53 ‘The Crusader’ (emigrant ship to Australia) 2.22 Cryan, Michael, photo 8.107 Cuffe, Maggie, ‘The Kilgefin Volunteers’ (poem) 12.140 culm, as domestic fuel 10.137–9 Cummins, Rev Canon, photo 12.76 Cunniffe, Brian, ‘St John’s - An Area of International Historical Significance’ 8.126–7 Cunniffe, Christy, ‘An interesting pair of images of the Last Judgment from Roscommon and ’ 13.7–8 Curie, Marie, photo 10.113 Curley, Daniel Patrick, ‘Dundonnell Castle, Co. Roscommon: a neglected and misunderstood 14

monument in the Irish landscape’ 13.58–64 Curlieus, Battle, 15 August 1599 1.47–51 Curraghroe, wedding party (about 1920), photo 12.126 Curran, Susan, ‘LiDAR and Early Medieval Settlement in Co Roscommon and Leitrim’ 12.97–101 customs, 8.121, 122-3

Daithi’s stone and mound, Rathcroghan, photos/drawings 12.109–13 Rathcroghan, drawing 1.25 Daly, Steward/Michael, life and work 6.65–6 Davis, Eleanor, ‘An investigation into the formation, activities and impact the Ladies Land League had on Irish history’ 13.26–7 De la Salle school, Roscommon Town, photo 12.74 De la Tour du Pin, Madame (Henrietta Lucy Dillon), life 3.19–20 death statistics, 1832-41, Roscommon Co. 8.96–8 Delaney, James G. 12.116–20 drawing 12.back cover ‘Fairy Legends’ 6.63–4 photos 12.116, 118 ‘Two Holy Wells in County Roscommon’ 4.56–7,59 Delaney, Shane, James Kyle and David Bayley, ‘Working the margin. The Archaeology of the N5 Ballaghaderreen Bypass road project’ 13.81–7 Delaney, Vincent, ‘The Decline and Fall of Castle Tenison, Keadue’ 14.23–7 Dempsey, Gary, ‘Rathcrogan - Building Upon the Legacy’ 14.139–47 Derby, Roscommon born residents, mid-19th century 7.86–93 Derrane, stone coat-of-arms 10.129–31 Derrymaquirk, bog burial 4.71–2 Despard, Charlotte (nee French), photo 14.18 Devenish family 13.49–50 Digby, Everard, photo 14.69 Dillon family (of Ballaghaderreen) 5.36–7 Dillon, Henrietta Lucy (Madame de la Tour du Pin), life 3.19–20 Dockery, James ‘County Roscommon Folklore & Oral History Network’ 11.100–1 ‘Introduction’, Journal vol 6: 6.2 vol 7: 7.4 vol 8: 8.3 Dockery, Louis Jr, ‘Towerhouses in Co Roscommon’ 6.17–18 Dodd, Luke ‘The Famine on the Strokestown Estate, and the Famine Museum at Strokestown Park’ 3.56–7 ‘Strokestown Park House’ 2.10-11; 2.13 doll show, Mount Talbot (1903) 10.106 Dominican Priory 15

Cloonshanville 11.4-5, 22-5 ; 14.168–72 drawing 11.back cover Roscommon 3.47 map 14.180 stone head, drawing 3.45 Dominicans, executed under 14.67 Don, Charles Owen O’Conor land owned in Griffith’s Valuation 5.21 life 5.19–20 as MP 5.20 Donamon Castle 1.37; 5.47–8 Donlon, Billie ‘The Mahon Murder Trials’ 1.31–2 ‘Strokestown - Comments and Conundrums’ 3.31–2 Donlon, Regina ‘Did it really matter - Roscommon women and the ?’ 13.147–9 photo 13.147 Doon of Drumsna, earthworks 8.99 Doorly, Edward, Bishop, photo 12.75 Doorty Bridge, photo 11.103 Doorty Hill, photo 11.105 dovecots, drawings 8.back cover Dowling, Edmund, duel fighter 12.127–31 Downey, John G., 7th Governor of California 10.58–9 Drogheda, double cadaver stone, photo 12.46 Drum Heritage Group Clonmacnoise, ancient funeral route 6.70–1 Thomastown Cemetery, restoration 7.102–4 Drumanone portal tomb, drawing 2.front cover Drumdaff House coach house door, photo 14.70 garden gate, photo 14.70 ha-ha wall, photo 14.70 photo 14.68 walled garden entrance, drawing 4.back cover Drumharlow Lough 7.114 Drummin bog, churn discovery 8.87 Dublin, Phoenix Park, Vice-Regal Lodge, photo 12.129 Ducomane description 7.4 map 7.back cover duelling pistols, photo 12.130 Duffy, Edward, life & times 7.96–7 Dundermott House (1947), photo 5.60 Dundonnell Castle 13.58–64 16

earthworks 13.63 location 13.58, 62 photos 13.58, 60-1 Dunne, Martin, ‘King House Interpretive Galleries & Museum’ 10.134–5 Dunne, Noel, ‘A Crannog At Loughnaneane, Roscommon Town’ 3.34–6 Dunnigan, Diane R. ‘A match was made at home: story of Elizabeth McDonnell Dwyer’s return to Co Roscommon’ 12.67–70 ‘Kilcommon Medieval Church and Graveyard’ 11.72–6 Durcan, Sarah, ‘Cruachan Aì - To the Future from the Past’, 8.45-7, 49-51 Dwyer, Kitty, ‘Farmers March - Roscommon contingent, 13th October 1966 13.65–6 earrings, gold, Castlerea, about 1200 BC, drawing 1.front cover earthworks, Doon of Drumsna 8.99 Easter Rising 1916 ‘1916 - Co. Roscommon in print’(Harlow) 13.150–6 ‘1916 and the Roscommon country house’(Reilly) 13.145–6 ‘Brothers in arms: the story of the Neilan brothers and the Easter Rising’ (McGreevy) 13.157–8 centenary (2016) lecture series 13.136–64 ‘Did it really matter - Roscommon women and the Easter Rising?’(Donlon) 13.147–9 ‘George Noble Plunkett - Count of the Holy Sepulchre, M.P. for North Roscommon’ (O’Connell) 13.159–64 GPO Dublin, photo 10.115 memories 3.29 ‘The backroom boys of Roscommon’ (Shouldice) 13.138–41 ‘The imagination of an insurrection: Patrick Pearse and the quest for the ‘authenic’ Ireland’(McNamara) 13.142–4 Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, bog survey (1814) 5.77 education Roscommon Co. 1.10–13, 25 Strokestown 10.33 Egan, Edward ‘Ancient Funeral Route to Clonmacnoise’ 6.70–1 ‘Christopher Michael O’Brien: An Eminent South Roscommon Born Doctor’ 10.112–17 ‘Corn Milling Through the Ages: Early Mills’ 8.92–4 ‘Edmund Dowling - a late eighteenth century duel fighter’ 12.127–31 ‘The in Moore’ 12.51–60 ‘Séan O Neachtain (1640/50-1728)’ 9.101–4 ‘Thomastown Cemetery: Undergoing Restoration by Drum Heritage Group’ 7.102–4 Egan, William, photo 12.118 egg basket, drawing 9.back cover election, Co Roscommon (1880) 11.123–8 Elizabeth I, reconquest of Connaught 10.13–15 Elphin agrarian unrest 11.59–60 17

Bishop Hodson’s Grammar School 1.30; 2.33–4 Bishop’s Palace 1.30; 4.67 Boys N.S. (1904), group photo 2.40 Boys N.S. (1911), group photo 8.117 Carmelite House of Holy Cross 13.111–15 Cathedral photo 1.30 stone inscription 6.front cover census 1749 3.50–4 Diocesan School, photo 1.30 Diocese 18th century census 3.50–4 in 1637, 2.39, 41 Destitution Census, 1847 8.89–91 emigrant families, on ‘Crusader’ ship to Australia 2.22 fair (1823), custom and tolls 12.61 fairs and markets, photo 14.75–6 and The Famine 11.56–7 and the Franciscans, 2.23-5, 27-9 ‘Harvest Fair in Elphin’ (John Nerney) 14.76 history 1.30; 4.66–9 horse racing (1859) 7.21 land distribution 11.57–8 murder of Rev John Lloyd 11.56–63 and Oliver Goldsmith 5.52–3 place name, derivation 13.116–17 Post-Primary Centre 8.43 Elvery, Beatrice 14.150 The Emergency (1939-1945) and Castlerea 5.63–4 see also World War II Emlagh, cross, about 1400 AD, drawings 1.front cover; 8.front cover Emlaghmore Tempe House 3.47–8 drawings 3.46 wooden bowl 10.109 Enright, Aidan, ‘Outrage in Elphin: The murder of Rev John Lloyd’ 11.56–63 Ensor family 5.67–9 Essex St, Roscommon Town 7.105–7 Evans, John ‘One of the First Recipients of the VC’, 3.11, 13 ‘Roderic O’Conor, His Heritage, His Education, His Legacy’ 9.107–10 ‘Sir Nicholas O’Conor-a World Figure’ 5.59–62 faction fighting 6.61 fairies 6.63-4; 7.40–3 18

fairs Boyle 6.5 Elphin, fairs and markets, photo 14.75–6 Elphin (1823), custom and tolls 12.61 ‘Harvest Fair in Elphin Town’ (John Nerney), poem 14.76 Roscommon Co. 8.111–13 Roscommon Town (1953), cattle fair, photo 11.131 Roscommon Town (around 1900), photo 1.21 Fallon family, Tomona House 12.132–3 Fallon, Lorraine, ‘The Union Workshop in Cloonslanor’ (co-author) 5.85–8 Fallon, Michael, aged 103, photo 8.12 Fallon, Rosaleen ‘The 1954 Flood in Clonown’ 10.22–4 ‘Negotiations and rituals surrounding matchmaking’ 11.48–52 Falty Cattle Drive 12.53 House, Moore, photo 12.51 family history, Resource County Roscommon CD 11.93 The Famine in Ardcarne 6.91–4 Beechwood Famine Pot, photo 14.56 and Boyle 6.90 and Elphin 11.56–7 ‘The Famine in Ireland’ (Kirrane), poem 5.82 Famine memoirs, 6.54-5, 57-8 Fuerty, Famine Relief Committee 14.111–12 and Kilronan (in Irish) 1.23–4 and Lisanuffy parish 6.19–22 ‘Memories of the Famine in Roscommon’ 6.54–5, 57–8 museum, Strokestown 3.57 poem about 5.82 and Roscommon Co., 6.29, 31, 33-4, 54-5, 57-8 ‘Roscommon Famine Letters’, 6.29, 31, 33-4 and Strokestown 3.56-7; 4.50 on the Strokestown Estate 3.56–7 Strokestown Park House, archive 12.4–6 and tinkers 4.26 Fannon, Bridie, ‘Legends and Lore of my Childhood’ 5.108–9 Farmers March (Oct 1966) anniversary, photo 13.66 photos 13.65 farmhouses advertisement (1903) 9.118 traditional, 8.37, 39, 41 farming year, 1940s, 8.120, 122-3 Farrell, Alan, ‘Cluain Coirpthe and Kinel Dofa’ 6.89–90 19

Farrell, Mel, ‘Ending Civil War Bitterness? Frank MacDermot and the Foundation of the United Ireland Party, September 1933’ 13.14–17 Feely, Barry, ‘Stone was my life’ 14.105–8 Feely, Colin, ‘Feelys Of Boyle’ 2.21–2 Feely, Eilish, ‘TB-The White Plague’ 14.88–93 Feely family, stonemasons, 2.21-2; photo 14.108 Feely, John (R.I.C.) 12.71–3 Feelystone company, photo 14.108 field work, Co Roscommon (1879), sketch 12.115 film collection, Billy Chapman 11.53–4 Finan, Tom, ‘The Moated Site at Cloonfree, Co Roscommon’ (co-author) 9.67–73 Finnegan, David, ‘In the Shadow of the Curlews: Political Development in the Lordship of Mylurg in the Sixteenth Century’ 9.10–18 fire brigade Castlerea, 1940s, photo 12.19 Roscommon (1913) 11.128 firefighting demonstration, Courthouse, Roscommon, early 1950’s, photo 14.189 Fitzgerald, Imelda ‘The Development and Decline of the Roscommon Sheep Breed’, 6.83, 85-7 ‘Home Chores in the Century Past’ (co-author) 9.117–18 ‘Quacks, Potions and Ailments of the Century Past, 1900-1960’ (co-author) 10.122–3 Fitzgibbon, John (1845-1919), photo 12.96 Fitzmaurice, Michael ‘Ballinlough-Kiltullagh’ 2.42 ‘The Big House’ 3.41 Fitzmaurice, Paschal, ‘Recording the Past in Old Photos’ 10.91–3 Flanagan, Edward, Fr, Boys Town founder 1.29; 9.114–15 Flanagan families, diaspora 11.38–9 Flanagan, John P., and Patsy Flanagan, ‘The Twelve Tribes of Cornashinagh’ 11.38–9 Flanagan, Patsy ‘John O’Connor Power from Clashaganny’ 14.166–7 ‘Muiris Mac Curtáin’ 13.78 Flannery, John, photo 12.59 Flannery, Nigel, ‘Lough Gara and its Crannogs: an Archaeologist’s Paradise’ 6.13–15 Fleming, Geoffrey K., ‘The Fallon Family of Tomona House’ 12.132–3 floods Clonown (Cloonowen) (1954) 10.22–4 ‘Flood Control’ (Hegarty) 8.124–5 , flood control 8.124–5 ‘The Flying Bedstead’, photo 7.40 Flying Column, South Roscommon 10.25–8 Flynn, Jimmy 14.164 Flynn, John, ‘Sweet Smiling Carnadoe’ (poem) 5.66 folk remedies 4.75; 10.122–3 folklore 7.40–3, 71–4 ‘Folklore of the O’Carolan Country’ 7.71–4 20

James G. Delaney, collector 12.116–20 and oral history network 11.100–1 footwear, Gaelic, photos 13.19–22 Foughill townland 8.20 Fox, Brendan, ‘The Doon of Drumsna: Roscommon’s Iron Age ‘Berlin Wall’’ 8.99 Fox family, history 6.37–8 Fox, George, image 12.8 Fox, John, ‘Military Manoeuvres’, painting 6.37–8 Franciscan friary, Roscommon Town 14.177–81 Franciscans 14.136 at Elphin, 2.23-5, 27-9 The French Revolution, and Roscommon 3.19–20 French, Sir John, photo 14.95-8; drawing, 14.back cover French, William Percy 10.119–21 drawing 1.front cover Frenchlawn House, photo 5.61 Frenchpark, memoir (Casey) 7.18–19 Fuerty Famine Relief Committee 14.111–12 grave slabs 2.55-9; 4.front cover; 5.106-7; 7.137; 13.7–8

Gacquin, William ‘1821 Census Fragments from County Roscommon’ 7.34 ‘A brief history of Roscommon sheep’ 11.85–8 ‘Decade of Centenaries: the story of a World War I medal’ 14.115–16 ‘Decade of Centenaries: the tragic death of Peter Barrett 1901-1923’ 14.113–14 ‘Don’t Mention the Thresher...the Story of Two South Roscommon Co-operative Societies’ 7.120–3 ‘An Early Grand Jury Presentment Book From County Roscommon’ 10.96–8 ‘Kelly of Coolnageer’ 11.26–7 ‘Knockcroghery - Before and After’, photos 4.10 ‘Rev Dr James O’Fallon’ 6.99–102 ‘Roscommon Courthouse Collapse 1719’ 10.21 ‘Roscommon Protestant Meeting 1812’ 9.37–42 ‘A South Roscommon Parish in the Eighteenth Century’ 3.50–4 Gailey castle 6.103–4 photo 6.103 gallowglass, drawing 1.front cover Gamble, Aveline, ‘Headstone Inscriptions: With Specific Roscommon References in Nudgee Roman Catholic Cemetery, St Vincent’s Road, Nudgee, Queensland, Australia’ 7.116–17 gamekeeper, painting 13.68 gamekeepers, in 13.68–71 Ganly, Jim ‘Agrarian violence in Kilbride & Kilgefin 1843-1844 13.43–5 ‘Co Roscommon in 1905’ 10.6–7 ‘Field Kilns of the mid-19th Century’ 9.89–90 21

‘Introduction’ vol 10 of Journal 10.3 vol 11 of Journal 11.2 vol 12 of Journal 12.3 vol 13 of Journal 13.3 ‘John Lavin of Castlerea’ 12.11 ‘Kilgefin Church of Ireland’ 11.80–2 ‘Land League and Agrarian Crime’ 9.59–61 ‘The Digbys of Drumdaff’ 14.68–70 ‘The Fatal Process-Serving Affray’ 11.132–7 ‘The Land League Alphabet’ 11.138 ‘The Levelling of Lisgobbin’ 14.62–3 ‘The National Schools Issues’ (co-author) 12.62–3 Gara, Lough 6.13-15; 8.107–8 garage bill (1940) 8.15 gates Drumdaff House, garden gate, photo 14.70 ‘Luke Hayden’ style, drawing 4.back cover ‘Some Gates, Arches and Entrances of Co Roscommon’ 4.back cover Strokestown, Bawn Street/Bawn Gates (about 1910), photo 12.64 ‘Ulster’ style pillars, drawing 4.back cover Gavin Brothers, and ‘The Flying Bedstead’, photo 7.40 Gaynor, Anna, photo 11.90 Gaynor family 11.89–92 Gaynor, John J. 11.90 Geraghty, James ‘Roscommon Stag Hounds’ (poem, attrib.) 3.29 Geraghty, Tom ‘A visit to ’ 11.110 ‘The Croftons in Connacht’ 9.111 Ghent, William, Rev, ‘The Station’ (poem) 4.16–17 Gibbons, Karen, ‘The Union Workhouse in Cloonslannor’ (co-author) 5.85–8 Giblin, Cathaldus, ‘The Franciscans In Elphin’, 2.23-5, 27-9 Gill, Noel, ‘Michael Nolan Kenny and the Carrick Classical Academy’ 11.77–9 Gilleran, Shane ‘Beechwood House’ 14.54–9 ‘The Demise and Demolition of Mote Park’13.9-13 Gillooly, Marie, ‘A Pilgrimage of Privilege’ 14.64–7 Gilmore, Patrick Stephen life and times 13.23–5 photos 13.25 Ginnell, Larry, M.P., photo 13.160 Glancy, Gareth, ‘Tincéirí’ 4.26 Glynn, Pat, Commandant, 50th anniversary commemoration, photo 11.70 Goat Island Crannog, photos 14.71–2 gods, Irish 10.107–9 gold, prehistoric, Cogglebeg 12.102–4 22

gold beads, Tumna 10.36–9 Golden, Richard, ‘Down the Old Bog Road’ 4.41–2 Goldsmith, Oliver and Elphin 5.52–3 poem 3.23 portrait 13.31 Goodbody, Rob, ‘Quakers in Roscommon’ 12.7–8 , Mary ‘Ardakillen Crannog’ 1.53 ‘Colonel James Plunkett of Elphin: The 1798 Connection’ 7.100–1 ‘A Day to Remember: The Society’s Annual Outing’ 3.25–7 ‘Douglas Hyde - His Diaries’ 8.73–4 ‘Elphin: A Proud Past - A Promising Future’ 4.66–9 obituary 12.9 ‘The Ormsbys’ 2.17 photo 12.9 tributes to 9.5, 12.9 Grand Jury Presentment Books, Roscommon Co. 10.96–8 Granlahan, Lowberry House, photo 14.137 Granlahan Cemetery, Lynch family mausoleum, photo 14.137 Granlahan School 9.105–6 grave slabs Cartron 7.138 Clonburren (Clonburn), drawing 4.front cover Clonown (Cloonowen) 4.front cover Clontuskert (Cloontuskert) 2.55-9; 4.front cover Drogheda, double cadaver stone, photo 12.46 Fuerty 2.55-9; 4.front cover; 5.106-7; 7.137; 13.7–8 Kilgefin, drawing 6.back cover Kilteevan 4.front cover Quaker Island (Inchcleraun/Inis Clothrann), drawing 4.front cover Roscommon Town 6.11 St Asicus, drawing 9.back cover see also headstones graves, tending, article in Roscommon Journal (1899) 9.120 graveyards Ardcarne 7.57 Aughrim Protestant Church 14.5–13 graziers, Roscommon Co. 6.77–80 Grehan, Margaret, ‘The Village Stations in the 1920s’ 8.57 Grenham, John Joe ‘Faction Fighting’ 6.61 ‘A Meeting of Kings in Co Roscommon 997 A.D.’ 8.88 ‘Rathpeak House’ 7.115 Griffin, Gerard, ‘The Shannon Stream’ (poem) 6.120 Griffin’s Valuations (1857) 23

land owned by Charles Don 5.21 , parish extract 5.84 Groarke, Alan, ‘The Dillons of Ballaghaderreen’ 5.36–7 grocery bill (1889) 6.112 Gunning, Elizabeth and Maria 1.17-18; 3.41

Hanley, Shane ‘Some Houses of Tír Briúin’ 5.24–5 ‘Tír Briúin na Sionna’ 5.70–1 Hapsburg Empire, Roscommon soldiers in service of 7.45–9 Harlow, Marian ‘1916 - Co. Roscommon in print’ 13.150–6 ‘The Battle of Kinnitty - 1397’ 8.138–9 ‘The Big Wind of 1839 in County Roscommon’ 5.26–30 ‘A County Roscommon Farmer’s Journal 1839-51’ 9.47–53 ‘Our Society’s 2018 Summer Tour’, photos 14.152–3 ‘Roscommon Courthouse and Town Fire 1882’, 6.7-8, 10-11 ‘Roscommon Town 100 Years Ago’ 7.35–9 Harney, Tom ‘Constable John Feeley (R.I.C., 1911 to 1922)’ 12.71–3 ‘The sad death of Rev Canon Peter Hughes’ 11.83–4 Harpur, Dana, ‘Pádraig O Caoimh, General Secretary of the GAA 1929-1964’ 4.21 Harris, Matthew, and the Land League 6.113–14 Harrison Hall 3.3, 5-6; 4.39–40 personal memories 4.73 photo 13.55 and Renaissance style sculpture 4.61–3 Harrison, John J., Dr 3.3, 5-6 ; 13.51–7 ballad 14.60 memorial, photo 13.57 photo 13.51 residence, photo 13.57 Harrison, Julian I., ‘The life and times of Dr John J Harrison, M.D. (1815-1890)’ 13.51–7 Hasty, Patrick 11.102–6 Hayden family 10.82–8 Hayden, John P., memories 10.82–8 Hayden, Luke, P., memorial 10.88 Hayden, Peter Joseph life and times 13.97–9 photo 13.97 tractor wheel invention, photo 13.98–9 Hazard, Benjamin, ‘From Connacht to Castile’ 12.89–95 head ring, drawing 9.front cover headstones Australia, with Roscommon references 7.116–17 Pat Neilan, eighteenth-century, photos 13.7–8 24

Peter Hughes, Canon 11.84 Roscommon Co. 10.42–3 Roscommon friary, photo 13.7 see also grave slabs Healy, Michael Morris life 7.135–6 ship named after 7.136 Healy, T.M., ‘The Gaynors’ 11.89–92 hearth stand, drawing 9.back cover hedge schools Roscommon, 1.10-11, 13 Strokestown 10.33 Hegarty, Kathleen, ‘Flood Control’ 8.124–5 heritage, Roscommon Co. 9.95-7; 10.68-9, 105 Hermitage House, Ballinagare 4.23 Hever, May, ‘Memories of a Fair Day in Boyle’ 6.5 Hickey, Paul, ‘The collapse of Roscommon’s nineteenth century political establishment’ 11.123–8 Hick’s Mill, ‘Ulster’ style gate pillars, drawing 4.back cover Hicks, Rose ‘Jimmy Hope, the Belfast Weaver, and His Connections with Strokestown’ 3.27 ‘Recollections of 1916 Rebellion’ 3.29 ‘The Story of Mudjeen Chalk’ 3.17 Higgins, Jim ‘An Early Miniature Copper-Alloy Bell From Scrine, Rahara, Co Roscommon’ 10.72–5 ‘Excavations at Roscommon Jail: A Summary Account’ 7.6–9 ‘Some 17th Century Renaissance-Style Sculpture from Roscommon Town’ 4.61–3 Hind, River, arch, drawing 4.back cover Hoban, James ‘From Hedge School to National Board 1810-1861’, 1.10-11, 13 ‘Introduction’, Journal vol 3: 3.2 vol 4: 4.2 ‘Religious Tensions in National Schools 1830-1861’ 7.82–3 ‘Society Summer Tour 2017’, photos 14.148–9 ‘The National Schools Issues’ (co-author) 12.62–3 hockey team (around 1900), photo 6.16 Hodson, Bishop, endows grammar school 2.33–4 Holy Trinity Kilkeevan, Castlerea, 5.18, 57 symbols, drawings 13.134 Hood, Susan, Dr, ‘Church of Ireland Records at the Representative Church Body Library, Dublin’ 10.76 Hope, Jimmy, Strokestown connection 3.27 horseman, ‘The Gaelic Chieftain’, photo 9.16 horses 25

drinking, The Square, Roscommon (1950s), photo 9.53 racing, Elphin (1859) 7.21 yoked by tail 2.63; 5.back cover hospitals, in workhouses 1.41–2 Hotchkiss machine gun, photo 12.138 Hughes, Rev Canon Peter, life and death 11.83–4 Hunter, John, Resource County Roscommon CD 11.93 hunting (1890s) 7.37–8 ‘Roscommon Stag Hounds’ (poem) 3.29 Roscommon Town (1930s), photo 2.35 Hurley, Kathleen, Famine memoirs, 6.54-5, 57-8 Hurley, Thomas P. Canon, Very Rev, ‘The Wreck of the Ferryboat’ (poem) 7.118–19 Hyde, Dr Douglas (Douglas de hIde) diaries 8.73–4 drawing of 1.front cover life & times 2.18

Illustrated London News, and Aloysius O’Kelly 7.66–70 Inchcleraun see Quaker Island Independence see War of Independence Inis Clothrann see Quaker Island IRA Brigade, 3rd battalion South Roscommon (1922), photo 1.19 Ireland, place names database 11.34–7 Irish dancers, Kelly Troupe, Ui Mhaine Feis (about 1950), photo 14.187 , court case (1905) 10.7 Irish language articles ‘An Chruiceog Chiúin’ (poem) 2.36 ‘Duthaigh Thásmar már a raíbh Céitinn’ 2.36 ‘Eastat Chill Ronain Aimsir an Ghorta Mhoir’ 1.23–4 ‘Focal ón Easpag’ 2.3 Irish soldiers, American Civil War, photo 14.164 Irish Volunteers, Castlerea, Main Street (1913), photo 12.96 Irwin family 7.143–5 photo 12.34 Irwin, Frank, Fr SJ, photo 12.34 islands Castleisland 9.13 Claw Inch 7.79–80 Goat Island Crannog, photos 14, 71–2 Inishatirra Island 7.114 Lough Ree, map 7.80 Quaker Island, 1.21; 8.61; 11.110

Jackman, Neil, ‘Kilbegly Mill - excavation of an early medieval mill in south Roscommon’, including photos/drawings 12.23–6 26

jail, Roscommon Town excavations 7.6–9 photos 2.35; 7.7 poem about 8.95 jambstones, Ballintubber Castle, drawings 3.14 Jennings, Fergal, ‘If these stones could speak...’ 14.168–72 jewellery, advertisement (1893) 7.13 jobbers, Roscommon Co. 6.77–80 John Travers Celtic Cross, photo 14.107 Jones, Anna, photo 7.75 Jones, Edward, William, photo 7.75 Jones, Pauline, ‘James J. O’Kelly - Forgotten Patriot’ 8.76–8 Jones sisters, Castle St, Roscommon, photo 7.78 Jones, Stanley Victor, photo 7.77 Jones, Walter A., life and work 8.7–8 Jordan, Bernadette ‘Charles Strickland - Land Agent’ 4.79–80 ‘The Story of a West Roscommon Fenian’ 7.96–7 Jordan, Catherine, ‘Early Use of Concrete in County Roscommon’ 9.93

Kavanagh, Declan, ‘Daithí’s Stone and Mound’ 12.109–13 Kavanagh, Rhoda, Dr, ‘Sir William Wilde, MD FRCSI 1815-1876’ 4.34–8 Kearney, John A. 12.17–18 drawing 12.back cover photo 12.17 Keegan, Mark, ‘Tulsk Abbey’ 6.67–9 Kelly, Andrew, ‘The Rathcroghan Dance In By-Gone Days’ 3.55 Kelly, B.P., ‘The Meadow’ (poem) 4.65 Kelly, Darragh, ‘A trailblazing lady’ (obituary of Mary Gormley) 12.9 Kelly family, Coolnageer 11.26–7 Kelly, Frank ‘Slieve Bawn’ 10.106 ‘Strokestown’ 10.125–7 ‘The Townland of Vesnoy’ 10.133 Kelly, Martin J. ‘Cregameen and Other Townlands in the Parish of Kilkeevin’ 8.17–20 ‘An Early Map of Castlerea’ 8.21–2 ‘Granlahan School’ 9.105–6 ‘Knockalaghta in the Parish of Ballintubber, County Roscommon’ 7.124–6 ‘The Re-Conquest of Connaught under Elizabeth I’ 10.13–15 ‘The Connacht Scene in the 1612 Period’ 9.112–13 Kelly, Michael, ‘Three tales of Roscommon emigrants in 19th century America’ 14.163–5 Kelly, Michael J. ‘An t-Athair Peadar Mac Thomáis’ 2.36 obituary 3.7 ‘The Crusader’ (emigrant ship) 2.22 27

‘The Kirkwoods of Woodbrook’ 1.15 ‘The Late David Thomson’ 2.22 Kelly, Patricia, Sister ‘Memories of an Imperfect Witness’ (memoir) 10.8 ‘Workhouse Hospitals’ 1.41–2 Kelly Troupe of Irish Dancers (about 1950), photo 14.187 Kelly-Palmer, Carmel ‘Buried Pipeheads Come Alive and an Old Craft Revived’ 8.75 ‘Horse Doctors - The Old and the New’ 8.109–10 Kennedy, John F. ‘Paddy from ’ (poem) 3.49 ‘Smiling Roscomáin’ (poem) 4.63 Kennedy, Mark, ‘The Highs and Lows Of The Cregga Hills’ 8.80–2 Kenny, Eadaoin, ‘Hermitage House’, Ballinagare 4.23 Kenny, Maureen ‘Donamon Castle’ 5.47–8 ‘The Parish of Fuerty’ 5.106–7 Kenny, Michael Nolan 11.77–9 Kenny, Pat, ‘That Grim Roscommon Jail’ (poem) 8.95 Keogh, Liam, ‘John G. Downey, 7th Governor of California’ (co-author) 10.58–9 Kerrigan, John ‘An Apologia for Church St Roscommon Town Sleepy Valley’ 3.63–4 ‘Gailey Castle’ 6.103–4 ‘Local Priest Stops Panic’ 5.44–6 ‘Roscommon, an Independent Diocese and a Separate Kingdom’ 4.51–3 ‘The Sad Tale of Michael Welsh (The Reluctant Ribbonman)’ 3.5–7 ‘A Shannonside Tale’ 5.83–4 ‘The Sheep Stalers’ (poem) 3.27 ‘A Tale of Two Rangers: The Connaught Rangers - A Crack British Regiment’ 4.24–6 Kielty, Frances ‘Jasper Tully, 1858-1938’, 3.59, 61-2 Kilbarry (Cluain Coirpthe) 6.89–90 Kilbegley Mill article, photos 12.23–6 drawing 12.back cover Kilbride Emmets (1911), photo 12.141 parish, indentures for lease of land (1666/1705) 12.95 Kilcline, Helen ‘The Memory of a Shattered Life’ 5.103 ‘Parnell’s Visit to Creggs and Roscommon’ 2.19–20 ‘Roscommon County Library’s Source Material for Local History’ 2.45–6 ‘Some Guidelines for Amateur Local History Researchers’ 6.115–16 ‘Some Recent Publications of Roscommon Interest’ 6.59 Kilcommon Church and graveyard 11.72–6 Kilgefin Church of Ireland 11.80–2 28

grave slab 6.back cover Kilkeevan (Kilkeevin) and Christianity 5.54–7 parish, creation, 8.33, 35 poem about 4.65; 8.35 St Joseph’s Church (photo) 3.36 Killala Round Tower, Mayo Co, photo 3.25 Youth Hostel, photo 3.26 Killerr, prehistoric standing stone, drawing 1.25 Killukin parish, prehistoric standing stone, drawing 1.25 parish church, stone head, 3.45, 48 Kilmeane, medieval cross 1.34; 2.58 Kilmore 6.25–6 Church, memorial slabs, photos 5.70–1 House 5.24 kilns field, 19th century 9.89–90 lime 9.91–2 Kilronan castle, drawing 14.back cover history 2.15–16 and The Famine (in Irish) 1.23–4 Kilteevan Church, windows 4.47 ecclesiastical site 4.45–7 grave slab 4.front cover graveyard, 7.27-9, 31-3 House, doorcase, drawing 1.39 legends 5.108–9 song about 5.94 Kiltoom Census, 18th Century 3.50–4 church, 7.27-9, 31-3 Co-op Agricultural Society Ltd 7.120–3 graveyard, 7.27-9, 31-3 mass rock 7.31 St Patrick’s well 7.31 Kiltrustan Parish census 1841-51: 11.96 churches and burial grounds, map 14.138 Kiltrustan station (1932), photo 4.17 Kiltullagh churches and burial grounds, map 14.138 history, 2.42; photos 14.132–8 29

Kiltullagh Hill, photo 14.132 Kinel Dofa 6.89–90 King, Edward (Viscount Kingsborough), life 2.37–8 King House, Boyle (1850) drawing 3.front cover restoration 6.47 King, Robert Edward (Viscount Lorton), photo 12.12 kings, meeting, Co Roscommon, 997 A.D. 8.88 Kingsborough, Viscount (Edward King), life 2.37–8 Kingstown, Roscommon-born residents in 1901, census 7.22–3 Kinnitty, Battle of (1397) 8.138–9 Kirkwood family 1.15; 7.15–16 Kirrane, Bridie ‘The Famine in Ireland’ (poem) 5.82 ‘The Fields of Home’ (memoir) 6.81 ‘Local History’ 10.136 ‘My Memories of the Harrison Hall, Roscommon’ 4.73 ‘My Memories of Main Street, Roscommon’ 9.116 Kirwan, Andrew, house at Cloonfad, photo 14.134 Knockacortha, prehistoric standing stone, drawing 1.25 Knockadangan, medieval cross 1.34; 2.58 Knockalaghta, history 7.124–6 Knockalegan, prehistoric stone, drawing 1.25 Knockarush, memoir 3.58 Knockcroghery burning by Black and Tans description 3.28 photos, 4.10; 13.104 clay pipe industry 1.45-6; 8.75; 13.100–4 N.S. 1929, group photo 6.72 old drawing 12.back cover photo 12.62 pipe band 6.27–8 railway 10.49–52 Knockmore hill 5.38–9 Knott, John F., life 5.78–81 Kyle, James see Delaney, Shane

La Tène stone, Castlestrange, about 100 BC drawing 1.front cover photo 12.124 Lady Betty 3.27 land reform, Roscommon Co. (1854-67) 8.128–33 30

unrest, Roscommon Co (1903-7) 5.73–5 war, Moore 12.51–60 Land League (1887), group photo 2.49 and agrarian crime 9.59–61 alphabet 11.138 Ladies 13.26–7 and Matthew Harris 6.113–14 land wars Moore 12.51–60 ‘Roscommon Agrarian Unrest 1881-82’ 12.35–8 ‘The Shepherds’ Association in Roscommon - A Phenomenon of the Land War’ 9.63–4 Lane, Padraig G. ‘Roscommon Agrarian Unrest, 1881-1882’ 12.35–8 ‘Roscommon Agricultural Labourers, 1880 to 1890’ 11.19–21 ‘The Shepherds’ Association in Roscommon - A Phenomenon of the Land War’ 9.63–4 Lanesborough, drowning accident, 1701 7.118–19 Langtree, Shera(r) family ancestral home, photos 13.72–6 lantern, tin, drawing 9.back cover Lateran Baptistery, Rome, drawing 13.133 Lavin, history of name 8.53–5 Lavin, John life 12.11 memorial, photo 12.11 Lavin, Patrick ‘Justice William J. Brennan Jr., United States Supreme Court Justice’ 8.103 ‘The Lavin Sept’ 8.53–5 law and order, Roscommon Town, 1890s 7.39 Lawder family, memorial tableau, photo 6.25 lease, example 5.65–6 leases, Roscommon Town 14.127–30 legends 1.108–9 Lennon, Michael ‘Billy Chapman Biographical Note’ 11.55 ‘The Devenish Family’ 13.49–50 ‘From Shannonside to Lewis County, West Virginia’ 10.30–1 ‘History of Strokestown’s Houses’, 11.8-15; 12.64-66; 13.90–6 ‘The History of Strokestown’s Houses-Part 4’ 14.77–87 ‘Walter A. Jones of Strokestown (1878-1939): Antiquarian, Historian and Poet’ 8.7–8 Leonard, Bridget, nurse, photo 11.108 Leonard, Eamon ‘Lest We Forget: Irish Nurses of the Great Wars’ 11.107–10 ‘Now we’ll have a good night’s talk’ 12.116–20 Leyden, Mary ‘Middlemen-Avaricious, rapacious, evildoers?’ 14.109–12 ‘The Gunning Sisters’ 1.17–18 31

library, Roscommon Co., stained glass window 5.103 library material, for local history 2.45–6 LiDAR technique, and early medieval settlements 12.97–101 lintel, cave at Rath Cruachain, drawing 1.front cover Lisacul, 1939-81: 4.81, 83 Lisgobbin, levelling of, photo 14.62–3 Lissonuffy (Lisanuffy) Parish census (1841-51) 11.96 history 6.19–22 Lloyd family 3.15–17 Lloyd, McAirt, Canon, and wife, photo 12.70 Lloyd, Rev John, murder 11.56–63 local history 10.136 library material 2.45–6 research advice 6.115–16 Lombard, Pat ‘Extracts from the Roscommon & Leitrim Gazette 1836/1839’ 8.100 1846/1847’ 6.95–7 ‘The Roscommon & Leitrim Gazette 1822-1882’ 5.50–1 Longford House, Castlerea, photo 5.18 Loughlynn Boys’ N.S. (1912), group photo 5.30 village, photo 6.104 Loughnaneane, crannog 3.34–6 loughs Drumharlow 7.114 Gara, 6.13-15; 8.107–8 Ree, islands, map 7.80 Lowberry House, Granlahan, photo 14.137 Lower Roxboro N.S. (1919-20), group photo 7.52 Lowman, P.L., Capt, flight log (1942) 7.65 Lughnasa, and holy wells, 4.56-7, 59 Lung River drainage (1905) 7.84–5 iron sword discovery, drawing 1.front cover lurag 2.64 Lynch family mausoleum, Granlahan Cemetery 14.137 Lysaght, Patricia, Dr, ‘Of Death and the Banshee’ 4.11–12

The Mabinogion 14.28–36 Mac Curtáin, Muiris life & times 13.78 wallet, photo 13.78 Mac Gabhann, Seamus, ‘Folklore of the O’Carolan Country’ 7.71–4 Mac Giobúin, A. ‘Men under Stress’ 6.53 32

McCabe, Ciarán, ‘Poor relief in pre-Famine Roscommon: the case of parish vestries’ 13.28–9 McCullagh, Damien, ‘Matthew Harris (1825-1890)’ 6.113–14 McCutcheon family 11.68–71 MacDermot, Felicity, photo 8.108 MacDermot, Frank 13.14–17 photo 13.14 MacDermot, John, Canon, photo 8.108 MacDermots of Moylurg family 5.32-5; 9.10-18; 13.130 McDermott, Ambrose, Bishop of Elphin 5.90–3 McDermott, Bernard, Lt, life & times 4.55 McDermott, Cyril ‘Fairs & Markets in Elphin Town Co. Roscommon’ 14.75–6 ‘Masters of Carpentry (McDermott family)’ 13.130 McDermott, Eileen, ‘Memories of a Knockarush Childhood’ 3.58 The McDermott Roe dynasty 7.141–2 McDermott, Tom carpenter’s tools, photo 13.130 cart wheel, photo 13.130 photo 13.130 McDermott, Yvonne ‘History and Architecture of the Mendicant Friars’ 10.9–12 ‘The Medieval History of St Patrick’s Priory, Tulsk, Co. Roscommon’ 13.106–10 ‘Roscommon Franciscan friary: a brief encounter’ 14.177–81 ‘The Priory of the Holy Cross, Cloonshanville’ 11.22–5 McDonnell (Dwyer), Elizabeth 12.67–70 photos 12.68–9 McDonnell family 14.116 McDonnell, Francis Vincent 14.115 MacDonnell, James Joseph, General, life & times 6.73–6 MacDonnell, Sir Randoll, plaque at Brideswell, drawing 2.53 McDonnell, Val diary extracts 1896-1907: 5.13–17 1908-13: 6.39–46 1914: 7.98–9 1915-1920: 10.61–7 life 5.11-12; 10.60–1 photo 6.46 McDonnell-Garvey, Máire, ‘Sketches from the History of the O’Conors in Connacht From Earliest Times’ 8.135–7 McEvoy, Karen, ‘Clooncraff Graveyard’ 4.83; 5.89 McGarry, James, ‘Kilronan’ 2.15–16 McGlynn family, and Mantua N.S. 4.48–9 McGreevy, John, Rev, ‘The Diocese of Elphin in 1637’, 2.39, 41 McGreevy, Ronan ‘Brothers in arms: the story of the Neilan brothers and the Easter Rising’ 13.157–8 33

‘Sir John French’ 14.95–8 McGuire, Kevin, ‘Settlement and religious practice in the parish of Kiltullagh from 1828 to 1858’ 14.132–8 McGuire, Molly 14.165 McKenna, Cyril, ‘Mantua National School 1822-1922’ 4.48–9 McKeon, Nollaig ‘County Roscommon Heritage Plan’ 10.68–9 ‘Heritage in Roscommon’ 9.95–7 McManus, Ita, ‘The Union Workshop in Cloonslanor’ (co-author) 5.85–8 McManus, Manus, ‘The Billy Chapman Film Collection’ 11.53–4 McMaster, Anew, photo 14.173 McNally, Frank & Richard Collins, ‘Rosie and Lily Cadiz - Roscommon’s suffragettes’ 13.46 McNamara, Conor photos 13.136, 137 , 142 ‘The imagination of an insurrection: Patrick Pearse and the quest for the ‘authenic’ Ireland’ 13.142–4 MacNamara, Jarlath ‘The most famous Irishman of 19th century America: Patrick Stephen Gilmore’ 13.23–5 ‘The Origins of St. Marys Church, Ballygar’ 14.99–104 McNeary, Rory, ‘A New Study of Land Enclosure and Settlement in North Roscommon’ (co-author) 10.99–104 Macra na Feirme (1967), group photo 13.118 Madden, Pat, Commandant 10.25–8 photo 12.105 Madonna and child, representations 2.64 Magrath, Conor, ‘Just an Ordinary House?’ 3.55 , Molly 14.165 Mahon, Denis, Major 10.45–8 murder trial 1.31–2 murderers, wanted notice 11.104 portrait 11.102 shooting of, 9.54-8; 11.102–6 Mahon family 3.42-3; 4.50, 56-7 Mahon, John Ross, photo 14.63 Main St, Roscommon Town 19th century windows, drawings 2.64 a memoir 9.116 Mannion, Lawrence, ‘The Restoration of Rathmoyle Ancient Cemetery’ 7.143–5 Mantua Barracks 3.55 N.S. (1822-1922) 4.48–9 maps end of 18th century 8.21–2 islands on Lough Ree 7.80 windmill, about 1685: 2.53 Marist Brothers School, Strokestown, confirmation (1966), group photo 13.77 34

Markievicz, Countess, drawing 14.front cover Martin, Julia ‘Home Chores in the Century Past’ (co-author) 9.117–18 ‘Quacks, Potions and Ailments of the Century Past, 1900-1960’ (co-author) 10.122–3 mass path, Cloonfad, photo 14.134 mass rock, Kiltoom 7.31 matchmaking, 11.48-52; 12.67–70 Mathers, Daniel, photo 12.58 Mathers, James A., photo 12.56 Mattimoe, Cyril M., Colonel, ‘The Battle of the Curlieus 15 August 1599’, 1.47, 49, 51 Mayo Co., 19th century mapping, Ordnance Survey, 6.105-7, 109-11 medicines 19th century 4.75 advertisement (1890s) 7.36 folk 10.122–3 Medieval Rural Settlement project, Roscommon Co. 9.65–6 Meelick House 5.25 Mehigan, Katherine, ‘A Castle Coat-of-Arms in Derrane’ 10.129–31 Mellifont Baptistery, reconstruction 13.133 Mellotte, Marian ‘Place Names of Roscommon’ 6.48–50 ‘Roderic O’Conor’ 7.11 mendicant friars architecture, windows 10.11 history 10.9–12 in Roscommon 10.12 Metcalfe, Charles G, Canon, gravestone, photo 6.26 Methodism, Roscommon Town 12.48–50 Methodist church, Roscommon Town (1905) drawing 12.back cover photo 12.50 Methodist Meeting House, Henry Street (Church Lane), Roscommon Town, photo/drawing 12.49 middlemen 14.109–12 midwife, appointed, Ballyleague 11.129–30 milestones, drawings 2.43 Minns, Hilary, ‘The Roscommon Irish in Derby in the mid-nineteenth century’ 7.86–94 moated site, Drumharlow Lough 7.114 Moffatt, Paddy, ‘Tomona House’ 11.98–9 Brothers Main Street, Roscommon (1930s), photo 5.40 personal memories 7.95 Molloy, David ‘Co Roscommon Museum/Tourist Office (John Harrison Memorial Hall)’ 4.39–40 ‘Dr Harrison and the Harrison Hall’, 3.3, 5-6 ‘The New Gaol’ 2.35 35

‘Roscommon Heritage Group’ 10.105 see also Shera, Wes Molloy, Sheila, ‘General James Joseph MacDonnell (1763-1848)’ 6.73–6 Molly McGuires execution of, photo 14.165 Roscommon origins 14.164–5 Mooney, Canice, ‘The Paruchia of St Brigid’ 6.88 Moore Cattle Drive 12.53 Falty House, photo 12.51 land war 12.51–60 Moore, Michael, ‘John G. Downey, 7th Governor of California’ (co-author) 10.58–9 Moore, Sam, ‘Baslick Church: an early medieval basilica in Co. Roscommon’ 11.116–21 Moraghan, Sean, ‘A Note On The Life, Personality and Library Of Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough (1789-1837)’ 2.37–8 Morahan, Mary, ‘Strokestown poor law union, 1850-1870: 13.32–9 Morahan, Tom & Paddy, photo 14.81 Moran, Alan, ‘Aughrim Protestant Church and Graveyard’ 14.5–13 Moran, May, ‘Paddy Moran of Crossna’ 9.21–5 Moran, Paddy life & times, 9.21-25; 13.5 portrait, drawing 13.front cover Moriarty, Brendan, memoir 13.79–80 Mote Park House demolition, photo 13.12 photos, 9.111; 13.10 Mount Pleasant House, photos 5.96; 13.50 Mount Talbot (1912), photo 2.51 doll show (1903) 10.106 Grand Entrance, drawing 4.back cover Mountdelvin, memorial rock, photo 14.134 mowing machine (1958), photo 11.64 Moylurg, lordship 9.10–18 Mudjeen Chalk, life 3.17 Mullaney, Thomas ‘The Chronicle of the 19th Century’ 8.59–60 ‘Extracts from Roscommon & Leitrim Gazette 1836/1839’ 8.100 1846/1847’ 6.95–7 ‘Roscommon & Leitrim Gazette 1822-1882’ 5.50–1 Mullaney-Dignam, Karol, ‘An ‘Italian palace’ in Co. Roscommon:the creation of Rockingham House, Boyle’ 12.12–16 Mulleady, Michael (attrib), ‘The Banks of Ruane Lake’ (ballad) 5.89 Mullooly, Pat 12.105–6 photo 12.105 36

Mullowney, Peter, ‘Gamekeepers in Connacht’ 13.68–71 Mullymucks, prehistoric standing stone, drawing 1.25 Murphy, Arthur, portrait 13.31 Murphy, John, wedding photo 8.23 Murphy, Joseph K., ‘Cloontuskert Parish 1749’ 9.27–36 Murray, Patrick ‘The Roscommon Schools Question: 1859-1938’ 12.74–8 ‘Thomas Connellan: A Turbulent Priest’ 10.78–81 Murray, Tommy, ‘Ode to a Workhouse Physician’ 14.61 museum, Roscommon Town 4.39–40

Naghten family 7.102–4 Nally, Joe & Tom Costello, ‘Roscommon Drama Festival-from 1960 to Present’ 14.173–5 Nash, Richard O’Conor, ‘The Life and Times of Charles Owen O’Conor Don MP’ 5.19–20 National Monuments’ Advisory Committee, Roscommon Co. 2.63 National Schools issues 12.62–3 ‘Religious Tensions in National Schools 1830-1861’ 7.82–3 Neary, Breda, ‘The Union Workshop in Cloonslanor’ (co-author) 5.85–8 Neary, Sean ‘Dr John Conry and the temporary work-houses in Strokestown - 1850’ 12.107–8 ‘Fairs and Market Tolls or Custom’ 12.61 ‘Highways and Byways’ 7.132–4 Neilan family, grave, photo 13.158 Neilan, Gerald, Lt, photo 13.157 Neilan, Pat, headstone, eighteenth-century, photos 13.7–8 Neptune, convict ship, drawing 13.43 Nerney, John, ‘Harvest Fair in Elphin’ 14.76 New York, Bowery district, photo 14.163 Newborough House, doorway, photo 14.133 Ní Fhloinn, Bairbre ‘Echoes of Ninety-Eight’ 7.112–13 ‘Memories of the Famine in Roscommon’ 6.54-5, 57-8 Noone, Hannah, Mrs 14.163 Noone, Kate, photo 13.80 Norton, Desmond, ‘Where was Major Denis Mahon Shot?’ 9.54–8 Norton, Tom ‘Clawinch Island: A Memoir’ 7.79–80 ‘Review: Resource County Roscommon CD’ 11.93 nurses, Irish, in wars 11.107–10

Ó hAisibéil, Liam, ‘Placenames Database of Ireland’ 11.34–7 O Neachtain, Sean, life & times 9.101–4 Oakport, drawing 8.119 Obituaries 4.3; 7.4; 8.2; 9.4;, 12.3; 13.3; 14.2 David Thomson 2.22 37

Mary Gormley 12.9 Michael J. Kelly 3.7 Timothy Cronin 2.9 O’Brien, Gearoid ‘Athlone Canal-the First Athlone By-Pass’ 7.127–9 ‘The Park Athlone: From Brewery to Secondary School’ 8.64–6 ‘The Story of St Peter’s Port, Athlone’ 6.35–6 O’Brien, Niall ‘Constables of Athlone Castle’ 13.122–8 ‘Constables of Roscommon Castle’ 12.80–2 ‘Keepers of Rindown Castle’ 11.28–33 ‘Some Connections Between Counties Roscommon and Cork’ 10.53–4 ‘The Medieval County of Roscommon’ 14.117–20 O’Callaghan, Malachy, ‘Vincentian Mission in Strokestown’ 7.13 O’Caoimh, Pádraig, 1929-1964 4.21 occupations, historical, drawings 8.60 O’Ceallaigh, Tomas, Fr, life 5.5 O’Conlain, Micheál, ‘The Railway Comes to Knockcroghery’ 10.49–52 O’Connell, Alan ‘Early Medieval Settlement and Economy in North Roscommon’ 9.75–87 Urney Church 8.140–1 O’Connell, Daniel, Roscommon Monster Meeting’ 14.100 O’Connell, John, ‘Michael Morris Healy, A Founding Father (1796-1850)’ 7.135–6 O’Connell, Mary ‘The 2012 Outing’ 12.46–7 ‘The Demise of Vernacular Architecture in Co Roscommon’, 8.37, 39, 41 ‘An Examination of How Some Co. Roscommon Holy Wells Feature in the Cult of the Holy Well in Ireland’ 7.58–65 ‘George Noroble Plunkett - Count of the Holy Sepulchre, M.P. for North Roscommon’ 13.159–64 ‘The Holy Well’ (poem), 7.17, 81 ‘Introduction’ 14.2 ‘Iron Age Connacht Capital Cruachan Ai’ (poem), 7.17, 81 ‘Legacy of the Landscape’ (poem) 8.63 ‘The Tour of 2002’ 9.19–20 ‘Urney Church’ 8.140–1 O’Connor family 12/13th centuries 4.51–3 12/18th centuries 8.135–7 O’Connor, Felim, King of Connacht, drawing 1.front cover O’Connor, Luke, Sir decorated with Victoria Cross, 3.11, 13 life, 3.37, 39 O’Connor, Síle ‘A Lime Kiln of the Ballymoe-Glinsk Area’ 9.91–2 ‘The Year of the Potato, 2008’ 11.111–12 38

O’Conor, Kieran ‘The Moated Site on Inishatirra Island, Drumharlow Lough, Co. Roscommon’ 7.114 ‘The Moated Site at Cloonfree, Co Roscommon’ (co-author) 9.67–73 ‘Tulsk Abbey’ 6.67–9 O’Conor, Nicholas, Sir, life & times 5.59–62 O’Conor, Roderic, life & times 7.11; 9.107–10 O’Conor, Rory (O’Conor Roe) 13.109–10 family tree 13.109 O’Dea, Michael, ‘Roscommon’s extraordinary literary heritage’ 13.30–1 O’Dononvan, John 14.132 portrait 14.138 O’Fallon, James, Rev Dr, Bishop of Elphin, life & times 6.99–102 O’Flanagan, Michael, Fr biography 13.5 portrait, drawing 13.front cover O’Floinn, Raghnall, ‘A Bog Burial from Derrymaquirk and Other Related Finds from County Roscommon’ 4.71–2 The O’Flynn 14.132 Ogham Stone Ballinagare 4.21 Brestagh, photo 3.25 lintel, cave at Rath Cruachain, drawing 1.front cover O’hAnnracháin, Eoghan ‘The General from Elphin: The Life and Times of General Jacques O Moran’ 4.27–33 ‘A North Roscommon Cavalryman’ (Lt Bernard McDermott) 4.55 ‘Some Roscommon Wild Geese’ 8.114–16 O’Kelly, Aloysius, life 7.66–70 O’Kelly, James, J., life & times 8.76–8 O’Láimhín, Peadar ‘Coal Miner & Song Writer’ (Steward Daly) 6.65–6 ‘Eastat Chill Ronain Aimsir an Ghort Mhoir’ 1.23–4 ‘The End of Another Line’ 7.141–2 ‘From Castle to Cabin’ 5.38–9 O’Moran, Jacques, life 4.27–33 O’Neill, Noel, ‘James Joseph Cox: A Co. Roscommon Stained Glass Window Artist’ 11.16–18 Oran round tower, drawing 2.63 well, inscription 4.77 Ordnance Survey 19th Century Mapping of Mayo and Roscommon, 6.105-7, 109-11 bench mark, 1739, drawing 1.39 O’Regan, Anthony, Bishop, portrait 14.138 O’Reilly, Andrew (Andreas), Count, service in Hapsburg armies 7.47 O’Reilly, John Boyle, ‘The Old School Clock’ (poem) 6.53 O’Reilly, William ‘County Volunteers in the Austrian Army’ 7.45–9 39

‘The MacDermots of Mylurg’ 5.32–5 Ormsby family 2.17 O’Sullivan, Donal J., ‘John A. Kearney, District Inspector of R.I.C. at Boyle, Co Roscommon, 1916-1922’ 12.17–18 O’Sullivan, Niamh, ‘Through Irish eyes: the work of Aloysius O’Kelly in the Illustrated London News’ 7.66–70 otter board, drawing 9.front cover Owen, Charles see Don, Charles Owen O’Conor Owens, Elsie ‘Fashionable Change: Fashion in Strokestown from the 1830s’ 10.56–7 ‘Strokestown Sawmill (about 1914-1955) 11.122 Owens, Henry ‘The Anglo-Irish War in East Roscommon ninety years ago’ 12.136–9 ‘Commandant Pat Madden 1894-1939’ 10.25–8 ‘Events of ninety years ago: arrest and escape of Pat Mullooly 1921’ 12.105–6 ‘Hasty and Commons’ 11.102–6 ‘Peter Joseph Hayden, 1908-1981, blacksmith & mechanical engineering’ 13.97–9 Owens, James, ‘Education and Hedge Schools in the Strokestown Area’ 10.33 Owens, Samuel, plaque, 1780, drawing 2.53

Park House, Thomastown, photo 7.104 Parke, Surgeon, Major T. H., life, 4.5, 7-9 Parnell, Anna, photo 13.26 Parnell, Charles Stewart, visit to Roscommon 2.19–20 Paton, Monica B., ‘The Centenary of Harry Boland’s 1918 Election as Sinn Féin T.D. for South Roscommon’ 14.17–22 Penal Laws 14.64 Dominicans executed under 14.67 Petty, William, extract from map of Roscommon Co. (1685) 2.53 photos, record of past 10.91–3 pillory, reproduction, photo 8.43 pipe band, Knockcroghery 6.27–8 pistol, flintlock, photo 11.106 pitcher, earthenware, drawing 9.front cover pits, sub-rectangular 11.139–43 place names Ireland, database 11.34–7 Roscommon Co., 6.48-50; 11.35–6 ploughing scene (1736), stone carving 5.back cover Plunkett, Augustine, Fr, monument, photos 13.67 Plunkett family, 7.143; 13.67 Plunkett, George Noble 13.159–64 election poster (1917) 13.161 photos 13.159, 160 Plunkett, James, Colonel, and the 1798 Rising 7.100–1 poems and prayers 4.16–17 40

‘Ballad of John Harrison’ 14.60 ‘The Banks of Ruane Lake’ (Michael Mulleady) 5.89 ‘Before Any Task’ 3.55 ‘Before Going on a Journey’ 3.28 ‘The Blue and the Grey’ 10.59 ‘Castlemore’ (P.J. Coleman) 4.15 ‘Christmas Prayer’ 3.20 ‘An Chruiceog Chiúin’ (Fr Peter Thompson) 2.36 ‘Come to Him’ 4.49 ‘The Cruffon Trail’ (G. Beggan) 14.49–52 ‘The Famine in Ireland’ (Bridie Kirrane) 5.82 ‘God’s Minute’ 3.23 ‘Goldsmith Speaks’ (Oliver Goldsmith) 3.23 ‘The Groves of Kilteevan’ (Mary Brennan) 5.94 ‘Happy Times in Ballinagare’ (Gene Connor) 4.22 ‘Harvest Fair in Elphin’ (John Nerney) 14.76 ‘The Holy Well’ (Mary O’Connell) 7.17, 81 ‘I Know Something Good About You’ 4.15 ‘In Pain at Night’ 3.49 ‘In Times of Danger’ 3.39 ‘Iron Age Connacht Capital Cruachan Ai’ (Mary O’Connell), 7.17, 81 ‘Just For Today’ 4.73 ‘The Kilgefin Volunteers’ (Maggie Cuffe) 12.140 ‘Kilkeevin’ 4.65; 8.35 ‘The Lay of the Croghan Drover’ 4.80 ‘Legacy of the Landscape’ (Mary O’Connell) 8.63 ‘A Legend from Heaven’ 4.33 ‘Lighting the Fire or a Lamp’ 3.41 ‘The Lime Kilns of Boher’ 4.33 ‘The Meadow’ (B.P. Kelly) 4.65 ‘A Message Home’ (Bernard J. Warren) 3.10 ‘Morning Prayers’ 3.57 ‘New Year Prayer’ 3.28 ‘Night Prayers’ 3.58 ‘The North Roscommon Brigade’ (Joe Thompson) 12.140 ‘Ode to a Workhouse Physician’ (Tommy Murray) 14.61 ‘Old Days of County Roscommon’ (Gene Connor) 6.120 ‘The Old School Clock’ (John Boyle O’Reilly) 6.53 ‘On Seeing a New Moon’ 3.28 ‘Paddy from Cootehall’ (John F. Kennedy) 3.49 ‘Petition’ 4.12 ‘Prayer to Guardian Angel’ 3.20 ‘Professional Friends the Schoolmaster’ 8.125 ‘Raking the Fire’ 3.49 ‘The Rathcroghan Dance in By-Gone Days’ (Andrew Kelly) 3.55 ‘Roscommon Brigade’ 3.62 41

‘Roscommon Stag Hounds’ (James Geraghty) 3.29 ‘Roscommon’s Flowery Vales’ (Julia Martin) 8.134 ‘The Shannon Stream’ (Gerard Griffin) 6.120 ‘The Sheep Stalers’ (Gerard Griffin) 6.120 ‘Smiling Roscomáin’ (John F. Kennedy) 4.63 ‘Sunday Morn in Ireland’ (Bernard J. Warren) 6.12 ‘Sweet Smiling Carnadoe’ (John Flynn) 5.66 ‘A Teacher’s Farewell to his School’ (James Quinn) 6.12 ‘That Grim Roscommon Jail’ (Pat Kenny) 8.95 ‘To Our Lady’ 3.28 ‘When the Clock Strikes’ 3.41 ‘The Wreck of the Ferryboat’ (Thomas P. Canon Hurley) 7.118–19 poor relief, pre-Famine, Co. Roscommon 13.28–9 Porter Spree custom 8.121 post office dinner dance, Astor Ballroom 1960, photo 14.187 Roscommon Co. (1905) 10.6 post office boxes article 10.4 drawings 10.back cover potato, history 11.111–12 poverty Diocese of Elphin (1847) 8.89–91 see also workhouses Power, John O’Connor, from Clashaganny in 1911 Census for England and Wales 14.167 portrait 14.166 Praeger, Robert Lloyd 14.139 prices and wages, 19th century 6.66 priories, Dominican Carlingford, photo 14.152 Roscommon 1.6–7 bestiary, drawing 5.72 St Patrick’s, Tulsk 13.106–10 stone head description 3.47 drawing 3.45 Pump Sinking Machine, photo 6.4

Quaker Island (Inchcleraun/Inis Clothrann) 11.110 Bell Tower and Church (1885), photo 1.21 grave slab, drawing 4.front cover group photo (1909), (Conradh na Gaeilge?) 8.61 Quaker meeting house, Ballymurray drawing 12.back cover photo 12.8 42

Quakers, in Roscommon 12.7–8 quernstones Goat Island Crannog, photo 14.72 Kiltoom, 7.29, 31 Quinn, Andrew Fr 14.184–5 Quinn family, Iowa, 1883, photo 14.183–6 Quinn, James, ‘A Teacher’s Farewell to his School’ (poem) 6.12 Quinn, Nancy, ‘My Memories of Molloy Brothers Ltd. Castle St, Roscommon’ 7.95 Quinn, Pat & Patsy Flanagan, ‘A Letter from Home: the Quinn Family of County Roscommon’ 14.183–6 raft, rush, drawing 9.back cover Raftery, Sean, blacksmith 8.109–10 Rahara church, conjectured baptism, drawing 13.135 Edmund Dowling, duel fighter 12.127–31 medieval parish church, entrance, drawing 4.back cover; 5.111 N.S. (1908-09), group photo boys 7.41 girls 7.140 N.S. (1948), group photo boys 11.94 girls 11.94 sheela-na-gig, 3.46, 47 Skrine, copper-alloy bell 10.72–5 stone head, drawings/photo 3.46, 47; 5.111; 13.131 see also Ballagh Raheen Pipe Band 4.43–4 Ranelagh, Earl of 1.8 land lease, example 5.65–6 lands 14.124–5 portrait 14.121 signature 14.130 Rathcroghan (Rath Cruachain) academic research 14.141 aerial surveys 14.140 cave, drawing 1.front cover Daithi’s stone drawing 1.25 and mound, photos 12.109–13 geology 14.139 Legacy Project, photos 14.139 141 map 12.113 population 14.140 Visitor Centre, Tulsk 8.45-7, 49-51 advertisement for 14.131 43

Rathmoyle cemetery, restoration 7.143–5 House, photo, 7.145; 12.33 Rathpeak House 7.115 recreation, Roscommon Town (1890s) 7.37–8 Ree, Lough, islands, map 7.80 Regan, Siobhán, ‘Castlemore’ 4.14 Reilly, Ciarán ‘1916 and the Roscommon country house’ 13.145–6 photo 13.145 ‘The Strokestown Park House archive: new perspectives on the Great Famine’ 12.4–6 Ribbonmen 3.8–10 Ridge, Anne, ‘The Significance of Numbers in Traditional Burial Rites in Roscommon’ 10.34–5 Rindown Castle entrance, drawing 4.back cover history 2.14 keepers of 11.28–33 photos, 11.28, 30-2 ring forts, Roscommon Co. 9.75–87 Rinn Duin settlement article 12.27–32 bee boles, photo 13.8 drawings 12.cover medieval stone head, drawing 12.back cover photos 12.27–32 roads, Roscommon Co., 17th century 7.132–4 Robinson’s Distillery, Athlone 8.64–6 Rochford, Riona, ‘The Sandfords, Landlords of Castlerea 1641-1914’ 5.99–101 Rockfield, home of White family, photo 2.51 Rockingham House, Boyle 12.12–16 photos 12.13,15 Rockland, medieval cross, drawing 1.35 Rogers, James, ‘The City of Rogers: from Roscommon to Minnesota, USA’ (told to John Brady) 10.70–1 Romanesque arch, drawing 1.front cover Rome, Lateran Baptistery, drawing 13.133 Roscommon & Leitrim Gazette extracts 1836-1839: 8.100 1846/1847: 6.95–7 history 5.50–1 Roscommon Abbey, 19th century, painting 9.43 Roscommon Castle 1880s, photos 2.49 architectural features, drawing, 1.front -5cover article 11.4 44

constables 12.80–2 drawing, 11.front cover photo 12.80 Roscommon County 19th century, mapping by Ordnance Survey, 6.105-7, 109-11 (1905) 10.6–7 agrarian unrest (1881-2) 12.35–8 agricultural labourers (1880-1890) 11.19–21 archaeological survey 2.63 ‘Big Houses’ 3.41 brickmaking 10.16–20 burial rites 10.34–5 cavalry manoeuvres (1905) 10.6 census (1821) 7.34 Cork, connections 10.53–4 death statistics (1832-41) 8.96–8 (1916, 2014) 13.151 by age group (1916) 13.151 education 1.10–13, 25 election (1880) 11.123–8 emigration, West Virginia 10.30–1 families map 4.back cover family history, resource CD 11.93 field work (1879), sketch 12.115 folklore and oral history network 11.100–1 French connections 3.19–20 Grand Jury Presentment Books 10.96–8 graziers 6.77–80 headstones 10.42–3 heritage 9.95-7; 10.68-9, 105 history 1st to 17th centuries 5.6–10 12/13th centuries 4.51–3 19th century 8.59–60 industrialisation 8.83–6 jobbers 6.77–80 kings, meeting in 997 A.D. 8.88 land reform (1854-67) 8.128–33 unrest (1903-7) 5.73–5 library resources 2.45–6 life expectancy (1870-2010) 13.151 map by William Petty (1685), extract 2.53 medieval formation 14.117–20 45

Rural Settlement project 9.65-6; 12.97–101 mendicant friars 10.12 National Monuments Advisory Committee 2.63 National Schools, early years 7.82–3 newspapers (1916) 13.150 place names, 6.48-50; 11.35–6 poems about 4.63; 6.120; 8.134 poor relief 13.28–9 see also workhouses population (1911) 13.150 prices and wages, 19th century 6.66 publications 6.59 9.75–87 roads, 17th century 7.132–4 rural life (1940s) 8.122–3 sheep farming, 6.83, 85-7 sheriffs 14.118 storm of 1839: 5.26–30 towerhouses 6.17–18 turf cutting (1881), sketch 12.114 wells, 4.56-7, 59, 76-7; 7.58-65; 13.131 Roscommon Coursing Committee (1923), photo 14.48 Roscommon Drama Festival (1960-) 14.173-5 catering committee, photo 14.174 Drama Festival Committee (1961), photo 14.175 memories 14.174–5 Roscommon friary, headstone, photo 13.7 Roscommon Herald, extracts, 2nd Jan. 1897: 8.13, 15 Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society committee members, photo, 12.3; 13.3; 14.2 history 2.1; 9.4 lectures 2007: 11.3 2010-12: 12.142 outings/tours 1989: 3.25–7 2002: 9.19–20 2007: 11.3 2007, Scotland, photo 11.5 2008 Scarborough Castle, photo 11.7 York, photo 11.7 2012, photos 12.46–7 2016, photos 13.88–9 2017, photos 14.148–9 2018, photos 14.152–3 46

Roscommon Journal 1899, article on tending graves 9.120 extract 1868: 6.97 Roscommon and Leitrim Gazette, extracts 1836/1839: 8.100 1846/1847: 6.95–7 Roscommon Messenger (1903), advertisements 9.118 Roscommon Military Barracks, incident 1924: 11.101 Roscommon Show, Stock Judging Competition (1958), photo 12.143 Roscommon Solstice Choir, photos 154–62 Roscommon Town All-Ireland winners, Minor Team (1939), photo 12.133 Beaufort, Rev D.A., visit, 1808 7.24–5 Casey’s Garage mechanics (1930s), photo 10.111 official opening (1952), photo 14.188 Castle, map & tenants’ survey (about 1860) 10.140–3 Castle St photo 6.64 shop scene, early 1900s, photo 7.76 cattle fair (1953), photo 11.131 Church St 4, 6.10 doorway plaque 2.64 history 3.63–4 Convent of Mercy (1951), photo 14.188 courthouse collapse 1719: 10.21 drawing 5.44 fire of 1882: 6.7-8, 6.10-11; 10.94 firefighting demonstration, early 1950’s, photo 14.189 De la Salle School, Abbey Street, photo 12.74 Essex St (1807) 7.105–7 fair day, around 1900, photo 1.21 Franciscan friary 14.177–81 grave slab 6.11 history, 2.5, 7-9 8th/17th centuries 5.7–10 19th century, end 7.35–9 1921 viewpoint 8.70 horses drinking, The Square (1950s), photo 9.53 hunt scene (1930s), photo 2.35 jail excavations 7.6–9 photos 2.35; 7.7 poem about 8.95 law and order (1890s) 7.39 47

LDF (1940), photo 14.189 leases 14.127–30 Main Street 19th century windows, drawings 2.64 a memoir 9.116 Methodism 12.48–50 Methodist church (1905) drawing 12.back cover photo 12.50 Methodist Meeting House, Henry Street (Church Lane), photo/drawing 12.49 Military Barracks, incident (1924) 11.101 museum 4.39–40 N.S, Senior Class (1929), group photo 9.62 Old Barracks 3.21–3 Parnell visit 2.19–20 post office (1905) 10.6 Presbyterian Church 8.101–2 public health (1890s) 7.36–7 recreation (1890s) 7.37–8 Renaissance-style sculpture 4.61–3 St Coman’s Church 10.106 schools (1859-1938) 12.74–8 CBS schools, drawing 12.back cover De la Salle school, photo 12.74 Session House 5.67–9 tourist office 4.39–40 wages and prices (1890s) 7.37 water supply (1890s) 7.35–6 well, photo 11.131 workhouse 13.53–4 (1890s) 7.37 Roscommon Town GAA Senior Football, Champions 1938, photo 14.176 Senior Champions 1938, photo 14.176 Roscommon LDF, 1940, photo 14.189 Ross Erilly Friary, Co Galway, drawing 2.23 Rossa, O’Donovan, funeral, painting 13.149 Rosserk Friary, Co Mayo, ‘dogs paw’ motif, drawing, 3.46, 47 round tower Killala, photo 3.25 Oran, drawing 2.63 Roxboro House, photos 11.89 Runnamoat House (1880), photo 9.93 rural life (1940s) 8.122–3 Rushe, Desmond 48

‘Lore’ 7.40–3 ‘Recollections on Elphin and the Goldsmith Connection’ 5.52–3 ‘Roscommon’ (memoir) 6.3–4 Ruttle, Edel, ‘Evidence for the clay pipe industry in Knockcroghery, Co. Roscommon’ 13.100–4 Ryan, Hazel A. ‘An Ecclesiastical Site at Cloontogher, Kilteevan’ 4.45–7 ‘Kiltoom Church and Graveyard’, 7.27-9, 31-3 ‘McCutcheon: The Roscommon Connection’ 11.68–70 Ryan, Joe, ‘Coal Mining in Arigna’ 10.90 Ryan, Michael, ‘Sir William Wilde as archaeologist’ 13.40–2 Ryan, Terry, ‘Pádraig O Caoimh, General Secretary of the GAA 1929-1964’ 4.21

St Berach, statue, photo 6.90 St Bride’s Church, Ballintober, history 7.108–11 St Brigid Cross, drawing 9.back cover paruchia 6.88 St Catherine’s Well, inscription 4.77 St Coman’s Abbey 5.7–8 Monastery, grave slab, drawing 4.front cover Park, GAA ground (1936-1968) 13.129 Vat 4.77 Well, crucifixion plaque description 7.4 drawing 7.front cover site, photo 4.53 St John’s Church, Strokestown 1.5 St John’s N.S. (1924), group photo 8.127 St John’s Parish 8.126–7 St Joseph’s Church, Kilkeevan 3.36; 5.56–7 St Mary The Virgin Church, Elphin, drawing 4.68 St Mary’s Church Ballygar, subscriptions 14.103–4 St Mary’s Convent Primary School (1950s), group photo 11.79 St Patrick’s Church, Knockcroghery 8.5–6 St Patrick’s N.S., Strokestown, re-opening, photo 13.121 St Patrick’s Well, Kiltoom 7.31 St Peter’s Port, Athlone 6.35–6 St Ronan’s Well, , crucifixion plaque 2.64; 4.77 Sandford family 5.99–101 Sandys, Robert 14.110 scales, brass, drawing 9.front cover Scales, Joe, ‘The Irish Gods and Their Continental Cousins’ 10.107–9 Scott, Pauline, ‘The Ballyleague midwife’ 11.129–30 Scrabbah Boys’ N.S. (1924), group photo 5.95 49

Girls’ N.S. (1908-1910), group photo 5.95 Girls’ N.S. (1958), group photo 5.96 Scramogue Ambush (1921) 12.137–9 Scregg Castle, sheela-na-gigs, drawing 3.45 Scregg House (1900), photo 9.98 doorcase (1760), drawing 1.39 sheela-na-gig 3.45–6 sculpture, Renaissance-style 4.61–3 scythes drawing 9.front cover photo 11.64 Session House, Roscommon Town 5.67–9 Seymour, Charles, Rev, life 7.10 Shanahan, Brian ‘A New Study of Land Enclosure and Settlement in North Roscommon’ (co-author) 10.99–104 ‘Report on an archaeological survey...at Baslick, Co Roscommon’ 12.83–7 Shannon, River bridges 1814, drawing 1.39 at Athlone 1556-1990, drawings 3.back page and Clonown 3.64 flood control 8.124–5 poem about 6.120 sheela-na-gigs 3.45-8; 6.36 sheep, Roscommon, history 11.85–8 sheep farming, Roscommon Co, 6.83, 85-7 Shera, Michael, house, Roscommon Town, photo 12.48 Shera, Wes and David Molloy, ‘History of Methodism in Roscommon Town’ 12.48–50 ‘Langtree: The ancestral Irish home of the Shera/Sherar family’ 13.72–6 ‘The Shambles of Boyle: The Early Days’ 11.65–7 Shera(r) family 13.72–6 sheriffs, Co. Roscommon 14.118 Shine, Susan, ‘Shannon/Clonown Links’ 3.64 shop scene, early 1900s, photo 7.76 shopping, examples of bills (1920s/1930s) 5.102, 105 Shouldice, Frank Jnr photos 13.136, 138 ‘The backroom boys of Roscommon’ 13.138–41 Shouldice, Frank Snr biography 13.5 photo 13.139 portrait, drawing 13.front cover Siggins, Albert 50

Athlone Castle, keep, drawing 13.126 ‘Back cover design notes’ 14.191–2 and Bernadette, photo 12.104 bird-traps, drawings 8.back cover ‘Birds and Beasts’ 5.72 ‘Brickmaking in Co Roscommon and Elsewhere’ 10.16–20 ‘Bridging the River Shannon at Athlone 1556-1990’, drawings 3.back page ‘Castlecoote Mill’ 3.33 ‘Co Roscommon’s Holy Wells’ 4.76–7 columbariums, drawings 8.back cover ‘The Corry, Kilroosky Boulder’ 7.54 ‘DAB’s visit to Roscommon Town in 1808’ 7.24–5 Derrane Cross, 17th century, drawing 5.front cover dovecots, drawings 8.back cover drawings 1.front cover 9.front & back covers 11.front & back covers 12.front and back covers 13.front & back covers 14. front & back covers Drumanone portal tomb, drawing 2.front cover Elphin Cathedral, stone inscription, drawing 6.front cover Emlagh Cross, drawing 8.front cover front cover, description 14.3–4 ‘The Gleam of Prehistoric Gold in Cogglebeg’ 12.102–4 ‘Goat Island Crannog, Ballinlig, Fuerty’ 14.71–2 ‘Heads and Tails of Stone’ 3.45–8 ‘A Holy Trinity baptismal font from Rahara medieval parish church’, photos 13.131–5 ‘Isaac Weld, Topographer and Artist’ 12.20–2 Kilgefin grave slab 6.back cover King House, Boyle, 1850, drawing 3.front cover Lough Ree islands, map 7.80 ‘A Map of Roscommon Castle and Survey of Tenants c.1860’ 10.140–3 ‘Mr Val’ 5.11–12 ‘Nimble Hands’ 8.71–2 ‘Plot in Essex Street Roscommon, 1807 7.105–7 post office boxes article 10.4 drawings 10.back cover ‘Prehistoric Standing Stones’ 1.25 ‘Romanesque Graveslab from Roscommon Town’ 6.11 ‘The Roscommon Abbey Watercolour’ 9.43–5 ‘Some ancient decorated wooden vessels from bogs in Co Roscommon’ 11.40–7 ‘Some Early Christian Slabs From Fuerty and Clontuskert’ 2.55–9 ‘Some Gates, Arches and Entrances of Co Roscommon’ 4.back cover 51

‘Some Headstones with Symbols of Death and Resurrection in Co Roscommon’ 10.42–3 ‘Some Late Medieval Crosses in County Roscommon’ 1.33-5; 2.58 ‘A Strawboys Suit from Grange, ’, drawing 13.119–20 ‘The link between the Earl of Coningsby, Lord Ranelagh and the Earl of Essex’ 14.121–30 ‘Three New Cross-Slabs and a Romanesque Lintel from County Roscommon’ 7.137–8 Tully Lough Cross 10.front cover; 10.4 ‘William Percy French’ 10.119–21 Simms, Catherine, Dr, photo 8.108 Sinclair, Mavis Jean ‘Jones and Walker Memories’ 7.51–4 Sinn Féin Christmas card (1920s) 13.78 skirts, on boys, photo 4.13 Slack, W. Wynne, Rev Canon, ‘Footprints On The Sands’ 2.33–4 Slieve Bawn, origins of name 10.106 slippers, Gaelic, photos 13.19–22 Smith, Brian, ‘Roscommon persons residing in Kingstown, 1901’ 7.22–3 Smith, Des ‘History in Stone’ 6.25–6 ‘The Kirkwoods and Woodbrook’ 7.15–16 ‘A Remarkable Roscommon Doctor, John F. Knott’ 5.78–81 ‘Roscommon Famine Letters’, 6.29, 31, 33-4 ‘Sir Luke O’Connor’, 3.37, 39 ‘The World’s Rarest Doctor: Surgeon Major T H Parke’, 4.7-9, 54 Spelman, Joseph, Rev ‘Ballaghaderreen and the Mayo-Roscommon Boundary’, 6.105-7, 109-11 ‘The Lung River Drainage 1905’ 7.84–5 spinning wheels, images 8.71–2 sprigging hoop, drawing 9.front cover The Square, Roscommon Town, horses drinking (1950s) 9.53 stained glass windows 11.16–18 Star of David, illustrated examples 2.43 Stations of the Cross, preparations, 1920s 8.57 stocks, reproduction, photo 8.43 stone cutting, tools, photo 14.106 stone heads Dominican Priory, Roscommon, drawing 3.45 Killukin, drawing, 3.45, 48 Rahara, drawings, 3.46, 47 stone inscriptions Corry, Kilroosky 7.54 Elphin Cathedral 6.front cover stones 8th century 8.11 decorated, Kiltoom 7.29 La Tène stone, drawing/photo 1.front cover; 12.124 prehistoric, drawings 1.25 see also quernstones 52

stoup, Killenboy, Co. Roscommon, drawing 13.135 strapwork motif, Ballintubber Castle, drawing 3.14 strawboys outfit, drawing 9.back cover; 13.119 Strickland, Charles 4.79–80 Strokestown 1846: 8.118 1920-1936: residents 10.40–1 1940s 2.61 aerial view 11.13 Bawn Street/Bawn Gates (about 1910), photo 12.64 Boys N.S. (1930-31), group photo 4.20 Bridge St, photos, 10.125; 14.77 Caslan Hills pilgrimage 14.64–7 Church Street and Bawn Street, photo 12.65 Cloonfree, N.S. pupils at liturgical festival, 1950s, group photo 13.48 Elphin Street, photo 12.65 and The Famine 3.56-7; 4.50 fashion, from 1830s 10.56–7 hedge schools 10.33 history 3.31–2 houses, history, 11.8-15; 12.64-6; 13.90-6; 14.77–87 and Jimmy Hope 3.27 Macra na Feirme (1967), group photo 13.118 Marist Brothers School, confirmation, 1966, group photo 13.77 mission in 1867 7.13 new church, land documents, 19th century 7.130–1 no.1 Eastside, photo 14.77 no.2 Eastside, photo 14.77–8 no.3 Eastside, photo 14.79 no.4 (a), and 4 (b) Eastside combined 14.79–80 no.4 (a) Eastside, photo 14.79 no.4 (b) Eastside, photo 14.79 no.5 Eastside, photo 14.80 no.6 Eastside, photo 14.80 no.7 (a) and 7 (b) Eastside, combined 14.80–1 no.7 (a) Eastside, photo 14.80 no.7 (b) Eastside, photo 14.80 no.8 Eastside, photo 14.81 no.9 Eastside, photo 14.81–2 origins of name 10.125–7 Park House 2.10-11, 13; 6.6; 9.54 Famine archive 12.4–6 photo, 11.9; 12.4 Poor Law Union (1850-1870) 13.32–9 population survey (1841-51) 11.95–9 St Patrick’s N.S, reopening (1955), photo 13.121 53

sawmill (about 1914-1955) 11.122 town park, photo 14.78 workhouses 12.107–8 model 13.33 Stubbs, G, Countess Conigesby, painting, drawing of 1.8 Suck, River, bridge over, drawing 1.39 suffragettes Cadiz sisters, photos 13.46 postcards, 13.22, 46; 14.15 Roscommon 14.14–16 suggan 2.64; 6.58; 9.front cover surgeons, students (1920), photo 12.66 Sweeney, Michael, Rev, gravestone, photo 6.96 sword, iron, found in River Lung, drawing 1.front cover Synge, Bishop, census (1749) 3.50–4

Taghmaconnell, stone crucifixion plaque 2.64 Tate, Christopher, photo 6.97 Taylor, Melanie, ‘The Union Workshop in Cloonslanor’ (co-author) 5.85–8 TB (tuberculosis) 14.88–93 March of the White Plague cartoon (1907) 14.90 outdoor ward, photo (1920s) 14.88 Teachers’ Class, Convent of Mercy, Roscommon 1910/1913, photo 3.64 Tempe House (nr Oran), sheela-na-gig, 3.46, 47-8 Thomastown Cemetery, restoration 7.102–4 Park House, photo 7.104 Thompson, Joe, ‘The North Roscommon Brigade’ (poem) 12.140 Thompson, Peter, Fr ‘An Chruiceog Chiúin’ 2.36 obituary 2.36 Thomson, David, obituary 2.22 Thorne, Kathleen Hegarty ‘Vaughan Vibrations’ 8.124 ‘Workhouse inmate statistics’ 11.115 throne of grace, 15th century, drawing 13.135 Tibohine 1.55–6 graveyard memorials, photos 12.39–44 Tiernan, Danny, ‘The Connaught Rangers: The Fighting Men of Roscommon’ 10.144–6 Tiernan, Manus ‘Father Plunkett’s Monument’ 13.67 ‘Re-Modelling of Rathmoyle House’ 12.33 Tiernan, Padraig, ‘Tulsk Abbey’ 6.67–9 Timon, Patrick, ‘Tibohine’ 1.55–6 Timoney, Martin A., ‘Sub-rectangular pits and pitfields in Central North Roscommon’ 11.139–43 54

Timoney, Mary B., ‘Notable 18th and 19th Century Memorials in Tibohine Old Graveyard, Co. Roscommon’ 12.39–44 tinkers, and the Famine 4.26 Titanic Centre, Belfast, photo 12.47 Tivnan, Frank ‘Introduction’, vol 5 of Journal 5.2 ‘A Ramble Around the Northwest of Lough Gara’ 8.107–8 ‘An t-athair Tomas O Ceallaigh’ 5.5 Tobar Largan font, photos 13.131 Tobar na gCreacht, well, slab 4.77 Tobar Reeoge, well, inscription 4.77 Toberbride see Brideswell toilets, bill for installation, early 19th century 7.94 Tomona House drawing 12.back cover photo 11.98-9; 12.132 Tonlegee, medieval cross 1.33-4; 2.58 Tonra, Henry ‘Ardcarne’ 7.55–7 ‘Charles Seymour’ 7.10 ‘The Famine in Ardcarne’ 6.91–4 ‘Sailing from the Lowlands Low’ 5.90–3 ‘What We Used To Die Of: Death Statistics for Co Roscommon, 1832-1841’ 8.96–8 tourist office, Roscommon Town 4.39–40 towerhouses, Roscommon Co 6.17–18 Towey, Fergal, ‘The Emergency Years in Castlerea (1939-1945)’ 5.63–4 Treacy, Kate, life 8.71 tribal groups, Connaught, 800 A.D. 11.119 Trien townland 8.20 Tully, Jasper (1858-1938), life 3.59, 61-2 Tully Lodge 5.24 Tully Lough Cross 10.front cover; 10.4 Tully N.S., group photo (1908) 5.41 (1924) 5.40 (1938) 5.41 (1958) 5.41 Tulsk Abbey 6.67–9 Castle, attack on 12.134–5 Friary, photo 10.12 St Patrick’s Priory, medieval history, photos 13.106–10 Village, Cruachan Aì Visitor Centre, 8.45-7, 49-51 Tumna, gold beads 10.36–9 Tuohy, Anthony ‘Castlerea: History On Your Doorstep’ 2.47 55

‘Castlerea Union Workhouse’ 11.113–14 ‘St Joseph’s Church in the Parish of Kilkeevin, Castlerea (1798-1898)’ 3.36 turf cutting, Co Roscommon (1881), sketch 12.114

United Ireland Party 13.14–17 United Irish League membership card 12.115 Roscommon Co. (1903-7) 5.73–5 (1909) 11.114 Urney Church 8.140–1

Valkenburg, Fr, ‘Dominican Priories of Roscommon’ 1.6–7 Vaughan, John, Capt (1893-1921), life & times 3.40–1 Vaughan, Mairead, ‘The Life And Death Of A Volunteer: Captain John Vaughan (1893-1921)’ 3.40–1 Vesey, Patrick ‘Statistical survey of population...Strokestown 1841-51’ 11.95–7 ‘Undiplomatic Relations - the Landlord and the Bishop’ 10.45–8 Vesnoy, origins of name 10.133 wages and prices, 18/19th centuries 6.66; 7.37 Waldron’s farm machinery shop, Ballintubber (1950s), photo 7.99 Wall, Oliver, ‘The Foundation of Christianity in the Parish of Kilkeevan (Castlerea)’ 5.54–7 War of Independence, images 14. front cover Warren, Bernard J. ‘A Message Home’ (poem) 3.10 ‘Sunday Morn in Ireland’ (poem) 6.12 wars, Irish nurses in 11.107–10 Webster, Gillian (née Mahon), ‘Descent of The Mahons of Cavetown Co Roscommon’ 3.42–3 Weld, Isaac on Ballinlough 14.133 photo 12.20 prices & wages, Roscommon Co, 19th century 6.66 topographer and artist, life 12.20–2 wells Brideswell, plaque 2.53 ‘The Holy Well’ (poem), 7.17, 81 Oran, inscription 4.77 in Roscommon Co. 4.56-7, 59, 76-7; 7.58–65 in Roscommon Town, photo 11.31 St Catherine’s, inscription 4.77 St Comain’s Vat, slab 4.77 St Patrick’s, Kiltoom 7.31 St Ronan’s, crucifixion plaque 2.64; 4.77 Tobar Largan, photo 13.131 56

Tobar Reeoge, inscription 4.77 Tober na gCreacht, slab 4.77 Welsh, Michael (Ribbonman), life 3.8–10 White family home, Oran, photo 2.51 Strokestown (1910), photo 14.81 Wilde, Sir William caricature 13.40 life & times 4.34–8 memorial stone 13.42 portrait 13.40 windmill (about 1685), map showing 2.53 windows Main St, Roscommon Town, 19th century windows, drawings 2.64 mendicant friars architecture 10.11 stained glass Roscommon Co library 5.103 work of James Joseph Cox 11.16–18 Woodbrook (David Thomson) 2.22 Woodbrook House 1.15; 7.15–16 wooden bowls Emlaghmore 10.109 from Roscommon bogs 11.40–7 workhouses Boyle, inmate statistics 11.115 Castlerea 11.113–14 certificate of authorisation 5.22 inmate statistics 11.115 Cloonslanor 5.85–8 with hospitals 1.41–2 Roscommon Town, 1890s 7.37 Strokestown 1850 12.107–8 model, photo 13.33 World War II Local Security Force, recruits (1940), photo 12.79 see also The Emergency (1939-1945)

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