Opening Hours: 1st April - 31st October, 11.00 - 05.30. Open all year for pre-booked groups. Tel: 00 353 ( 71 ) 96 33013 Fax: 00 353 ( 71 ) 96 33712 e-mail: info@strokestownpark.ie web: www.strokestownpark.ie
		Strokestown Park House was seat of the Parkenham-Mahons since the 1660's. The guided tour of the house includes all the main reception rooms, the first floor bedrooms, the children's nurseries and the galleried kitchen, complete with their original furnishings.
		The Great Irish famine of the 1840's is now regarded as the single greatest social disaster of 19th century Europe. Between 1845 and 1850, when blight devastated the potato crop, in excess of two million people - almost one-quarter of the entire population - either died or emigrated.

Strokestown Park House was seat of the Parkenham-Mahons since the 1660's.

The guided tour of the house includes all the main reception rooms, the first floor bedrooms, the children's nurseries and the galleried kitchen, complete with their original furnishings.

Located in the stable yards of Strokestown Park, is the very impressive Famine Museum, which commemorates the Great Irish Famine of the 1840's. The museum uses the extensive Strokestown archive to explain the significance of the Famine nationally and to reflect critically on the ongoing spectacle of contemporary world hunger and is worth spending a few hours in.

The National Famine Museum

This brilliant museum at Strokestown Park, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, Ireland is twinned with Grosse Ile and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site, Grosse Ile, Quebec, Canada. Over 5,500 Irish people who emigrated during the famine years are buried in mass graves at Grosse Ile.
The Great Irish famine of the 1840's is now regarded as the single greatest social disaster of 19th century Europe. Between 1845 and 1850, when blight devastated the potato crop, in excess of two million people - almost one-quarter of the entire population - either died or emigrated. The Famine Museum is located in the original Stable Yards of Strokestown Park House. It was designed to commemorate the history of The Great Irish Famine of the 1840's and in some way to balance the history of the 'Big House'.
The Museum also has a strong educational focus and seeks to create a greater awareness of the horrors of contemporary famine by demonstrating the link between the causes of the Great Irish Famine of the 1840's and the ongoing spectacle of famine in the developing world today. The Famine Museum was opened in 1994 by the then President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, and she said 'More than anything else, this Famine Museum shows us that history is not about power or triumph nearly so often as it is about suffering and vulnerability'.

Strokestown Park House Walled Gardens

a 4 acre 18th century walled pleasure garden has been fully restored to its' original splendour.It's piece de resistance is its' herbaceous border which is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest herbaceous border in Britain & Ireland.