Families of County Roscommon

Families of County Roscommon

• KellySecond most common Irish surname, the Uí Maine of Galway, and six other dynasties besides.
• O'ConnorThe royal house of Connacht, the last high kings of Ireland.
• FlynnThe reddish one, across three Ó Floinn septs.

Historic ties to Roscommon

Families with historic but not core ground in this county.

• Brennan
• O'Carolan
• Wilde

Champions of County Roscommon

Famous bearers whose lives or work root in County Roscommon.

• J. W. DunneThe Anglo-Irish Boer War officer who designed the first inherently-stable aircraft, the swept-wing Dunne D.5 of 1910, then wrote An Experiment with Time (1927), the popular text on precognitive dreams that influenced J. B. Priestley, T. S. Eliot, Olaf Stapledon and Jorge Luis Borges.