Michael McManus

Billy the Boy McManus

At 10pm. on the night of 25th. June, 1831, Sergeant Thomas Armstrong, of the staff of the Roscommon Militia, was returning home peacefully after visiting a friend in his home town of Boyle, County Roscommon, when he met in the street a local man of disrepute, namely William, alias ‘Billy the Boy’, McManus.

The McManus’s of Ardnanure and Nure

The arrival of a number of McManus families to settle in Ardnanure and Nure would have gone unnoticed and indeed unrecorded were it not for Nure’s great local Historian the Late Kieran McManus (1874-1973) who related to Folklore Collector James Delaney in 1961 that several centuries ago, the McManus’s in Nure and Ardnanure hailed from the North of Ireland.

Three McManus Strays From The 1700's

Two Clans that bear the McManus name

Kilronan Outrages 1845

The following are from The House of Commons Reports abstracts of police reports of some of the principal outrages in County Roscommon during 1845 Kilronan Parish.

John McManus, 88th Regiment of Foot

Born Parish of Kilronan, near town of Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Roscommon
Occupation - Labourer

Dirty Work

The photograph is a haunting family relic. At one and the same time it conveys a sad, yet proud, moment in our family history, my grandfather, James McManus, born Crook, County Durham, sits proudly in military combat uniform amid two anonymous comrades from the . Tyneside Irish Brigade

MJ MacManus Family

Michael MacManus

John Strong's Will

Elizabeth Gallagher McManus, (RIP) Arigna, Ireland.

A Calendar of Kilronan McManus

Circa 1617 - Calendar of The Patent Rolls of The Chancery of Ireland at the time of James 1st. (1566-1625):

John and Jane McManus

John and Jane McManus of Keadue East

King of Spain

Evidence can be found the eighteenth century of a connection between Kilronan McManuses and the kings of Spain.

Sweet Sixteen and True Love Waits

My Granma, Catherine Cairns, was born in Milburn Street Crook, County Durham in 1872.

James McManus

James McManus, my great great grandfather, was born shortly after the Battle of Ballinamuck, which took place on the borders of Counties Longford and Leitrim in 1798, when the French Army under General Humbert and the Irish Rebels were brutally defeated by an English Army of 29,000 men under Lord Cornwallis and General Lake

Where Rests Our Genesis

Where rests our Genesis: An historical note on the noble and ancient clan McManus of North Roscommon, Ireland, together with nominal references from five Catholic Parish es: Aghanagh Ardcarne and Tumna, Boyle and Kilbryan, Kilronan, and Kill