The National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park holds something no other Famine site in Ireland can offer — the actual letters of starving tenants, written to a landlord who would be shot dead within months of receiving them. Major Denis Mahon of Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, was assassinated on November 2nd, 1847.
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Dún Aonghasa is a 3,000-year-old Iron Age fortress on the edge of a 100-metre cliff on the Aran Islands, Galway. It has no back wall — and archaeologists still disagree about why — plus get weekly Ireland stories free in our newsletter.
If your family left Ireland from the north, there is a good chance County Antrim is where your story begins. Antrim gave the world some …
Griffith’s Valuation (1847-1864) records every Irish household by name and townland — free to search. Find your ancestors’ exact farm and trace your Irish roots.