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
@ohhbobba3401 Жыл бұрын
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~
@johnconway80707 жыл бұрын
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 .
@niallhickey6036 жыл бұрын
John Conway roscommon and Athlone are good spots with decent shops pubs restaurants but Longford has become quite rundown in recent years
@johnconway80706 жыл бұрын
+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.
@greenstreet6811 жыл бұрын
I love this little town. Just spent two weeks there.
@willowfarm19 жыл бұрын
great wee tour thank you. You have the perfect voice for tv or radio work.
@TranslatorsTech7 жыл бұрын
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!
@milsyoutubex4 жыл бұрын
In a place called Darren or something?
@milsyoutubex4 жыл бұрын
My mum used to work there
@DaddyDrummer00712 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this. I was born in Roscommon.
@annefrearson84716 жыл бұрын
I was born in Roscommon now live in UK. Great to see this
@bigbruh40045 жыл бұрын
I was born in roscommon... And I still live in roscommon 🙂🙂🙂
@fearailer2 жыл бұрын
Great footage...was this filmed in 2012...looks a bit older..
@rjburbine11 жыл бұрын
My roots are from Co. Roscommon too. Slainte!
@Quickxphos4 жыл бұрын
I traced my Hertitage to Roscommon today. Left Ireland mid 1800s to Liverpool. Any Roscommon locals know of any Clarke’s today?
@bernadettecollins8664 жыл бұрын
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....
@born2soon3 жыл бұрын
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.
@Ronaldo-zf5xd10 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this.... the best city ireland!!!!
@sandralynch82156 жыл бұрын
It's not a city
@BullGaming-rg2yr4 жыл бұрын
Not a city
@geraldotobaljunior870210 жыл бұрын
I have good lembraças this place, I have worked in Roscommon, I'm Brazilian
@maikarce15318 жыл бұрын
I love this City
@emmalouise82047 жыл бұрын
Maik Arce this is not a city
@PotatoChipBaby7 жыл бұрын
Maik Arce I live in Balbirggan
@gracewiththeface8384 жыл бұрын
this is not a city
@douglasvilledarling29354 жыл бұрын
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
@Corgis1754 жыл бұрын
My ancestors came from Roscommon.
@JRAR242 жыл бұрын
Kind of looks like Newport, Charleville and Listowel mixed together
@Corrie12111 жыл бұрын
Nice tour of Roscommon Town. Thank you for sharing and thanks to sessnazx for sending.
@niallmcweeney9311 жыл бұрын
Inspiring. This video made me realise who I really am. Sensational.
@bilalawan46187 жыл бұрын
have a driving test there so thought watching this might help :)
@rickygaming28499 жыл бұрын
is there a place near Rosscommom called Ballahadreen probably i have got the spelling wrong lol,
@seanier36489 жыл бұрын
Yes it's 40 mins away in the north of the county
@rickygaming28499 жыл бұрын
ok thanks, I am trying to find someone who's family live there and I have lost touch with.
@josephososkie30298 жыл бұрын
ricky latta that's where my grandfather grew up!! Dignan.
@luvy23614 жыл бұрын
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?.
@kk-zb6ue4 жыл бұрын
get outside of the town and it’s all green hills as far as the eye can see .
@bernadettecollins8664 жыл бұрын
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...
@PotatoChipBaby7 жыл бұрын
Ms Kelly Lives in Roscommon
@heatherc336 жыл бұрын
PotatoChipBaby alot of them do
@nataliana90893 жыл бұрын
Abbey national school
@RaccoonNation4 жыл бұрын
I have been to Roscommon USA 🇺🇸
@fecheteniku797911 жыл бұрын
nice town......
@emmalouise82047 жыл бұрын
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!!!
@edileuzasouza37207 жыл бұрын
Emma Kearns i live in rosscomon
@heatherc336 жыл бұрын
Samee
@SethMcFartlane6 жыл бұрын
It's a local town for local people.
@bashirD5 жыл бұрын
i get lost in all these roundabouts
@MrGixxernut6 жыл бұрын
The most depressing town in Ireland
@niallhickey6036 жыл бұрын
dave davey far from it😂
@bae25855 жыл бұрын
dave davey I live there and ur fucking right it’s absolutely shite
@threeletteragent5 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@mamiyapress3 жыл бұрын
I hope that you have learned to enter and exit a round-a-bout properly since you made this video.