A Strokestown businessman is being praised for his role in preserving key documents about the famine in Roscommon.
The sod was turned over the weekend on the plans for a new €5m national famine Museum which will be located on the gerunds of Strokestown Park House and Gardens.
Jim Callery bought the property in 1979 and discovered several pages of never before seen documents relating to the Famine and its impact locally
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A major upgrade to the museum was annoucned in October 2019, but due to pandemic delays, it is now expected to be complete for visitors by summer 2022.
Michael Hogan is the architect of the new museum extension and he says that the new buildings are inspired by the origins of the discovery of the Strokestown famine archive :
