Rowdy Roscommon

Home to an infamous prison and what is possibly my favourite pub in the world, reason enough to give landlocked Roscommon its very own tour. Note: May venture into next door neighbour Lonely Longford. As when ever will you find yourself there otherwise?!

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What you might see

☘Hell's Kitchena pub with a full-size train carriage parked inside it
☘The gaol of the hangwomana prison whose executioner was famously a woman
☘A gateway to the Otherworlda cave mouth said in myth to lead underground
☘A pub-shop-undertakerone counter, three trades, still trading
☘The royal site of Rathcroghanearthworks that were a capital long before castles
☘A stone that marks the centre of Irelandthe disputed dead-centre of the country
☘A bog railway you can ridea narrow-gauge line built for turf, now for visitors
☘A monastery on a lake islandrowed to, ruined, and utterly quiet