Publications & Books from – Drum (Athlone).

This is our current collection of publications from Drum. All but one was produced by Drum Heritage Group, a prolific publisher who would put many other such groups to shame. All images are linked to larger ones and these can be seen by clicking on the image.

We are always on the look out for additional examples to add to our collection. If you have any publications or books that you no longer need please contact us.

Produced in aid of Drum Community Centre - Mayor of Drum Campaign. Seventeen essays on Drum history by various authors. 60 pages. The booklet was edited by Micheál Macken.

368 page book with 49 articles on the history of the area by various authors. Illustrated with black & white pictures throughout and with family charts, graveyard lists etc. Sold out.

Information on Drum Heritage Group, "Drum & its Hinterland", St. Brigid's Holy Well, The Great Famine, Summerhill Orphanage, Mass Paths & The Funeral Route to Clonmacnoise.

Souvenir Brochure of Commemorative Walk over Ancient Funeral Route from Ardkeenan to Clonmacnoise on Sunday 20th. September 1998. The story of the funeral route.

St. Peters Parish Millennium Walk, Mass & Family Outing to Drum Old Cemetery on Sunday 27 June 1999. Information on Cloonakilla, The Cluniac Monks of Athlone and Drum Monastic Site.

Souvenir Brochure. The Jubilee 2000 Great Millennium Walk over Ancient Funeral Route from Ardkeenan to Clonmacnoise on Sunday 17th September 2000. The Route, The Great Millennium Walk, The Gravel Road - Nure to Columper, The Bridge of Clonmacnoise.

Forty eight page commemorative booklet produced for the celebration of the 70th. Anniversary of the 31st. International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin in 1932. The booklet tells the story of Drum's part in the original celebration. June 2002.

432 pages. As first edition above, but with twenty extra essays on various local history subjects. (Seventy articles in total).

Souvenir Brochure for Lennon Homecoming Weekend - June 20th - 22nd 2003 at Drum Heritage Visitor Centre, Drum, Athlone, Co. Roscommon. The Lennons of Kilmacormack, Drum & Joliet, USA.

Thirty two page commemorative booklet produced for the official unveiling of a memorial plaque to Seán Ó Neachtain on the wall of his former dwelling at Clonellen, Drum. Illustrated.

154 pages on the mills and millers of South Roscommon. Illustrated in black & white and colour on inside covers. Launched on 16th April 2004.

Fundraising card for Drum Parish Hall Development and Drum Heritage Visitor Centre. Pilgrim Walk over Ancient Funeral Route Ardkeenan to Clonmacnoise on Sunday 19th September 2004.

Eight page Souvenir Brochure of the Daniel O'Connell 1843 Repeal Meeting Commemorative Walk, from Athlone to Summerhill on Sunday 24th Sept. 2006.  Daniel O'Connell - The 'Liberator', Daniel O'Connell in Politics, The 1843 Repeal Meeting at Summerhill, Tom Steele - a lifelong Friend of Daniel O'Connell, Post Summerhill Meeting, Daniel O'Connell Imprisoned on Charges of Conspiracy. Illustrated in colour.

540 pages. Sixty one different articles on local history from Drum and area. Includes 1901 census for townlands. Illustrated in black & white and colour. Launched on 26th August 2007.

100 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. Contents: Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Drum Monastic Site. St. Brigids Well. The James Tormey Memorial. The Pilgrims Path to Drum. "Drum & its Hinterland". A Photographic & Pictorial record of Old Homesteads. The Ancient Funeral Route to Clonmacnoise. The Restoration of Thomastown Cemetery, ... Millennium 2000 Celebrations. Reconstructing the Wake House at Nure. The Great Millennium Walk .. A Heritage Centre for drum. Drums 70th Anniversary of the 1932 Eucharistic Congress. The Lennon Homecoming - 2003. Drum Heritage remembers the Great Famine 1846 - 1847. The Elphin Diocese Walk to Clonmacnoise - 2004. Sean O'Neactain ... The Bridal Path & 3500 BC Megalithic Tomb. The Summerhill Daniel O'Connell Repeal Meeting Commemoration. "Bygone Times - A Near forgotten History". Curraghaleen Hedge School. All-Island Pride of Place - Drum an Award Winner 2007.

Edward Egan is the author, editor or compiler of most of the publications above, therefore we feel it appropriate to keep his latest offering here on the Drum page (rather than Curraghboy of the title). This 231 page book, lavishly illustrated in colour and monochrome, was produced for a limited audience (the Egans and their descendants) and launched in June 2009. We compliment Edward on another fine publication.

Fold out brochure with historic references, photographs and illustrations. Contents: Drum Monastic Site & St. Brigid's Well. The Origin of St. Brigid's Cross. Mary of the Gael. Her Travels in Ireland. St. Brigid at Drum Dreastain. St. Brigid's Well. Local Folklore, Customs & Traditions, The "Breegeens" (sometimes called Breedhógs or Brídeogs). A County Kildare Nun Recollects. Baptism at St. Brigid's Well. Ongoing devotion to St. Brigid. June 2010.