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[www.roscreaonline.com] This is a premier portal website for the town of Roscrea and it's surrounding areas. Features info on local history, businesses, maps, activites, local news and more.
[www.roscreacu.ie] Roscrea Credit Union operate a website where any member of the Credit Union can check their balances and account details online. There is also a wide range of information for those interested in applying for membership.
[www.roscrearfc.com] This is the website of Roscrea Rugby Club

[www.golfeurope.com/clubs/roscrea] The website for Roscrea Golf Club

 

Heritage Links
[www.iol.ie/~mtjoseph] The website for the Mount Saint Joseph Abbey (Cistercian Order & Monastic Community) in Roscrea
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Some newspapers and periodicals dealing with Roscrea
Nenagh Guardian – to date
Midland Tribune - to date
Tipperary Star
– to date
Roscrea People, 1974 to date.
Shuler, 1919
Roscrea Review, 1928
An Fiolar, Cistercian College, Roscrea, 1930-1989
Molua, 1934-1959
Éile, 1982, 1983/84
Tipperary Historical Journal, 1988 to date.

Link, monthly newsletter, Roscrea Youth Centre.
St Cronan’s Weekly Mass leaflet
Printed Material
Bassett, H.G., The Book of County Tipperary (Dublin, 1889;
reprinted 1991).
Cooke, T.L., History of Birr etc. (Dublin, 1975).

Cunningham, George, (ed) Roscrea People, 1974 to date.
Roscrea and District (Roscrea, 1976).
Tourist Trail to Roscrea (Limerick, 1977; later re-issued as
Historic Roscrea).
100 Years of Roscrea, (Roscrea, 1979).
Roscrea People of the Year, annual booklets, 1987 to date.
Monastic Roscrea (Roscrea, 1991).
Convent of the Sacred Heart 1842-1992 (ed, with Tom
Prior, Roscrea, 1992).
Roscrea Golf Club, 1892-1992 (1992).
Roscrea Hurling Club (ed with Tom McCarthy, 1980).
The Anglo-Norman Advance into the SW Midlands of Ireland, 1185-1221, (Parkmore Press, Roscrea, 1987).
Gleeson, Dermot F., Roscrea: town and parish (Dublin, 1947).
A history of the Diocese of Killaloe, Vol 1
(Dublin, 1962).

Gleeson, Rev John, History of the Ely O’Carroll Territory
(Dublin, 1915; reprinted with biography and bibliography
by GC in 2 vols, 1982).

Harbison, Peter, Cooper’s Ireland (Dublin, 2000).

Hewson, Adrian, Faith in Place (Roscrea, 1990).
Inspiring Stones, (LKA, 1993).
No Ivory Tower (Roscrea, 2002).

Hogan, Flannan, O.Cist., The building of Mount St Joseph Abbey
Church, Éile,No 1 (Roscrea, 1982), pp59-66.

(Unpublished typescript), The O’Learys of Beechwood.
Moloughney, Kathleen, Roscrea Me Darlin’ (Roscrea, 1987).
Roscrea, My Heart’s Home (Roscrea, 1992).

Murphy, Ignatius, The Diocese of Killaloe, 3 vols (Dublin, 1991,
1992, 1995).
The appointment of Bishop Michael Flannery and the
proposed revival of Roscrea Diocese 1858, Éile, No 1
(Roscrea, 1983/84), pp87-96.
Same issue, A note on the building of St
Cronan’s, Roscrea, pp105-107.

Nicholson, Asenath, The Bible in Ireland (New York, 1927).
O’Neill, Tim, The Roscrea Missal, Éile, No 1 (Roscrea, 1982),
pp40-44.

O’Shea, James
, Priests, Politics and Society in Post-famine Ireland
(Dublin, 1983).
Sister S., A Son of St Patrick – Michael Bergin SJ (Dublin, 1932).
Souvenir Programmes:
Roscrea Carnival, 1940
Organ Recital and Concert, St Cronan’s, 1953
Restoration Brochure, St Cronan’s, 1956
Golden Jubilee, Roscrea Bacon Factory, 1907-1957.
Centenary Souvenir, Sacred Heart, 1842-1942
Sacred Heart, Souvenir Annals, 1842-1976.
Na Bráithre Críostaí, Ros Cré, 1961-1999.
Various programmes, booklets and brochures of RHS,
1980 to date.
Various booklets, brochures etc of Mount St Joseph Abbey.
Walsh, Laurence, OCSO, Mount St Joseph Abbey (Roscrea, 1971).
Two Men of Roscrea, Éile, No 1 (Roscrea, 1982), pp67-70.
Richard Heaton of Ballyskenagh, (Parkmore Press, 1978).

Wright, John, Offaly One Hundred Years Ago (Tullamore, 1989:
Originally published 1890 as The King’s County Directory).

 

Ely O'Carroll
Roscrea Walking Heritage Trail
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