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  • You can search and then order photocopies of certificates for €4 from the General Register Office in Roscommon (General Register Office, Government Offices, Convent Road, Roscommon).

    Genealogical tools with Cork twist… « Cork Genealogist 2009

  • Roscommon, which is dignified with the name of Dunmore House.

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

  • Mathew; a score of dirty cabins offering "lodging and enthertainment", as announced on the window-shutters; Mrs. Kelly's inn and grocery-shop; and, last though not least, Simeon Lynch's new, staring house, built just at the edge of the town, on the road to Roscommon, which is dignified with the name of Dunmore House.

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848

  • To the west of this lake is the "long and skinny-looking" county of Roscommon, which is bordered to the east by the counties of Westmeath (at the southern end, and bordering the lake), Longford (just north of Westmeath) and Leitrim (north of Longford).

    unknown title 2009

  • There was a mess-mate of mine in the 'Roscommon' who never paid car-hire in his life.

    Charles O'Malley — Volume 2 Charles James Lever 1839

  • "Now, the Roscommon was a beautiful corps; no petty jealousies, no little squabbling among the officers, no small spleen between the major's wife and the paymaster's sister, -- all was amiable, kind, brotherly, and affectionate.

    Charles O'Malley — Volume 2 Charles James Lever 1839

  • But the men and women who cut on the bogs of Ireland have a champion in Dublin, the TD for Roscommon South Leitrim, Luke "Ming" Flanagan.

    Irish turf cutters don't give a sod for EU bog ruling 2011

  • His father moved to London in 1924 from the hardscrabble western county of Roscommon in search of work.

    Irish Remedy for Hard Times: Leaving Guy Chazan 2011

  • Dana presents Late night visitors, or The attack of the coyotes posted at Roscommon Acres.

    Creative Carnival: February 2010 « Write Anything 2010

  • But the men and women who cut on the bogs of Ireland have a champion in Dublin, the TD for Roscommon South Leitrim, Luke "Ming" Flanagan.

    Irish turf cutters don't give a sod for EU bog ruling 2011

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