KnowYour5K?

A new initiative from the Heritage Council and National Museum of Ireland invites you to share your discoveries and insights about the hidden heritage of your locality. The project helps the public to use a wealth of online resources to find out more about the story of their locality. #knowyour5k is a follow on from our Mysterious Monuments initiative.

We would love to see lots of discoveries on #knowyour5k from Co. Roscommon! As we are all #InThisTogether, we will give a FREE heritage guidebook to anyone who makes a submission from Co. Roscommon to #knowyour5k.

Heritage is a very broad term. It includes archaeology and architecture like ancient monuments, old graveyards or historic buildings. It can be old documents, photographs or letters of historic value. It includes natural heritage like flora and fauna, rivers, lakes or mountains. It also includes local names for fields, music and songs, poems and storytelling, crafts and traditions, sports and leisure.

You can find more information about KnowYour5k on https://www.ouririshheritage.org/content/category/archive/place/knowyour5k

On the website you can find a how-to section to help you to research your locality, you can browse other people’s submissions to see what they have in their area or you can submit your own through an easy to use form.

These resources will help you find out more about #knowyour5k

• https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/content/files/Adopt-a-Monument-Research-Toolkit.pdf
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• https://webgis.buildingsofireland.ie/HistoricEnvironment/
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• https://www.archaeology.ie/sites/default/files/media/publications/irish-field-monuments.pdf
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• https://www.archaeology.ie/sites/default/files/media/publications/earthen-banks-and-broken-walls.pdf
• http://heritagemaps.ie/
• http://www.roscommoncoco.ie/en/Services/Community/Heritage/In-this-together-Roscommon-Heritage-Online/Heritage-Publications/

To claim your FREE guidebook, simply email heritage@roscommoncoco.ie with the link to your discovery up on the #knowyour5k website, which guidebook you would like and your postal address.

Your FREE Guidebook choice is between: ‘Roscommon Castle a Visitors Guide’ by Margaret Murphy & Kieran O’Conor; ‘Roscommon Abbey – a Visitors Guide’ by Kieran O’Conor & Brian Shanahan; Rindoon Castle and Deserted Medieval Town’ by Kieran O’Conor & Brian Shanahan or ‘Karst, Turloughs and Eskers – the Geological Heritage of Co. Roscommon’ by Robert Meehan & Matthew Parkes