Tourism documents & ephemera.

Roscommon is a beautiful place to visit. its scenery and historical sites are amongst the best in the country. Places like Roscommon and Rindoon castles, Roscommon and Boyle Abbeys, Cruachán, Strokestown Park and King Houses - If you have been here yourself you know the feeling, if not you should make it your business to come!

 

Walking, cycling and visiting places of historical or cultural interest have long been popular pastimes. Information leaflets to facilitate these activities are common. These are often discarded however and examples from the past (even the recent past) are quite scarce.

 

 

Above: Roscommon Tourism Strategy 2010 - 2014 and an invitation to the official launch.

 

This link will take you to see our Roscommon Collection.

This collection is part of our Co. Roscommon cultural archive. Items are categorised as Regional (Lough Ree, Midlands or Connacht) and Local (Roscommon only)

Some information on Roscommon is contained in various Connacht tourism & travel literature. To see our collection follow the link below.

This link will take you to see our Connacht Collection.

         

To contact Roscommon Tourist Office - Email: roscommon@irelandwest.ie

A pack of Souvenir Playing Cards (above) produced by the Irish Tourist Association. No date but ca. 1950's? This pack has one card for Roscommon, the Three of Hearts "McDermott's Castle, Lough Key, County Roscommon". The other card, the Ace of Hearts, has the caption "Lough Key, County Roscommon" but the same card in our pack is for "Muckno Lake, Co. Monaghan"! Did the set with the Lough Key (Ace of Hearts) card also have the McDermott Castle card? There were obviously a number of different editions made? How many different sets are there? Does anyone know? Please contact us.

 

 

 

 

 

Images are not to scale.

 

 

 

We are always looking for new material for the collection. Posters, leaflets, letters, flyers, badges, stickers, tourism newspapers and newsletters, postcards, documents of any kind relating to tourism in Roscommon, letters, books, newspaper reports and cuttings, press releases etc. All material welcome. Contact us.

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