🌐 If The Past Could Talk

Strokestown Park & Famine Museum

📍 Roscommon🚶 6 stops🚶️ 2.06km⌛ ~45 min

A Palladian mansion and its stable-yard now home to the National Famine Museum, a courthouse and two churches, and a convent still known locally as Dún Maeve — 6 stops through the Roscommon estate town where the Great Famine's history is told in full. Looking for things to do in Strokestown? Start here — no car, no ticket, no booking.

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Stops on This Trail

  1. Strokestown Park House
  2. Strokestown Park Stables (National Famine Museum)
  3. St John's Church (Bumlin)
  4. Church of the Immaculate Conception
  5. Strokestown Courthouse
  6. Convent of Mercy (Dún Maeve)

For Schools

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