Roscommon

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This article is about the town in Ireland. For other uses see Roscommon (disambiguation).

Roscommon (Ros Comáin in Irish) is the county town of County Roscommon in the Republic of Ireland.

This busy market town once had a hangwoman – a female hangman called Lady Betty – as well as a Dominican Friary, founded in 1253 by Felim O'Connor, King of Connacht (see Abbeys and priories in the Republic of Ireland). Roscommon Castle, built in 1269, is an Anglo-Norman fortress.

External links

• * Mapping from [Multimap] or [GlobalGuide]
• * Aerial image from [TerraServer]
• * Satellite image from [WikiMapia] or [Google Maps]

See also

• List of towns in the Republic of Ireland
• Lord Roscommon

 

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