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The winning Roscommon team received the J. J. Nestor Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.
Arthur French, 1st Baron de Freyne (1786–1856), United Kingdom Member of Parliament for Roscommon (1821–1832)
The fund is a founding member of Roscommon Social Finance, a collaboration in County Roscommon with the Roscommon Integrated Development Company, local credit unions and the Roscommon County Development Board.
Delbhna - south County Roscommon, and both sides of the Corrib
Maureen O'Sullivan, Ireland's first international movie star, was born in Boyle, County Roscommon.
He is the son of Séamus Qualter, former manager of both the Westmeath and Roscommon senior hurling teams, and the grandson of P. J. Qualter, a hurling star with Galway in the 1960s and 1970s.
Dermot Earley, Snr (1948–2010), Roscommon Gaelic footballer and Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces
Descendants of the Uí Domhnalláin are still found in Galway and Roscommon under the surname Donnellan.
During the Irish War of Independence whilst Coyle was based in the Longford-Roscommon area she became a close comrade of the local Irish Republican Army, providing them with sketches of a local police station that she knew.
Luke O'Connor, the first soldier who won the British military award, the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War was born in Hillstreet, County Roscommon, very near to Elphin.
In a 1903 book, Douglas Hyde, an Irish scholar from Roscommon who had learned Irish, referred to him as "a schoolmaster named O'Sullivan, in Munster" in his book The Songs of Connacht (which includes a drinking song by Ó Súilleabháin).
Four Roads GAA club, founded in 1904, is the most successful hurling club in Roscommon.
The subsequent All-Ireland final saw 'the Barr's' take on Roscommon's Clann na nGael.
Route 425 (Longford-Galway) provides a daily (except Sunday) service each way to/ from Galway via Lanesboro and Roscommon.
Additionally, in 1385, the MacDermots Roe established the Dominican Priory of the Holy Cross at Cloonshanville, near modern day Frenchpark in County Roscommon.
Its Cathedral, which was originally established in the County Roscommon town of Elphin, is now in Sligo.
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There are currently thirty-seven parishes in the Diocese, which are divided into 6 administrative deaneries, based in the towns of Sligo, Boyle, Strokestown, Castlerea, Roscommon and the part of Athlone west of the River Shannon.
In addition, it contained areas known as Trícha cét's, Túath and is the homeland of surnames such as Ó Conchobhair (O'Connor), Mac Diarmada (McDermott), Ó Ceallaigh (Kelly), Ó Birn (Beirne, Byrne, Burns), Mac Donnchadha (McDonough) and Brennan (Mac Branáin and Ó Branáin).
On 19 January 1881, he married Mary Eliza Chichester, daughter of Charles Raleigh Chichester (1830–1891), of Burton Constable, Holderness, and Mary Josephine Balfe (d. 1871), of Runnamoat, Roscommon.
Among his public works were alterations to the cathedral at Cashel, the court-house and gaol at Galway, court-houses at Carlow, Clonmel, Roscommon, Wexford, and elsewhere, and St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, the Catholic Pro-cathedral at Dublin.
A backup band is hired and, joined by Margaret’s boyfriend John Ford (Simon Keogh) and his friend Sean Flanagan (Domhnall Gleeson), Diogo and The Fandango’s begin a tour of Ireland’s graveyards and other lesser-known legendary venues including Ballymore Eustace, Roscommon, Strokestown, Ballaghderreen, Ballagh and Westport.
Thomas Mahon, 2nd Baron Hartland (1766–1835), MP for County Roscommon, grandson of the above
Tigernach Ua Braín (d. 1088), abbot of Clonmacnoise and Roscommon, putative author of the Annals of Tigernach
As part of the Auckland railway electrification project, the $100 million EMU maintenance and stabling depot was built on 4.4 hectares of the old Winstone Quarry in Wiri, located next to the South-Western Expressway and bordered by Roscommon and Wiri Station Roads.