Roscommon is still very much a county of wide-open spaces, rivers, meadows, low hills and lakes. The main thing this part of the world has going for it is a chance to unwind in laid-back surroundings and sociable pubs; and there are some fine places to stay and eat too. Roscommon (Accommodation, Roscommon, Ireland) is a popular place for visitors, horse racing enthusiasts and golfers.
Roscommon, a county of Ireland, province of Connaught, bounded E by Roscommon (Hotels, Roscommon, Ireland). Little is known about Coman, the fifth-century saint from whom the name comes. The Dominicans founded the ruined abbey that dominates the town, in the thirteenth century.
The Chief Towns in Co Roscommon are Strokestown, Boyle, Elphin, Loughlynn, Ballaghadereen, Castlerea and Knockcroghery.
Some popular surnames in County Roscommon (Accommodation, Roscommon, Ireland) are Hanley, Beirne, Kelly, Brennan, Connor, Flynn, Cox, McDermott, Brady and Farrell.
After the Anglo-Norman invasion Irish Romanesque architecture was replaced by Gothic. The Transitional period from the Romanesque to the Gothic style can be studied in some of the Cistercian abbeys built about a.d. 1200 such as Boyle Abbey, Co. Roscommon (Bed and Breakfasts, Roscommon, Ireland) ; Abbey Knockmoy, Co. Galway; and Corcomroe, Co. Clare. There arc some good Irish examples of thirteenth-century buildings in the so- called Early-English style as also of the later periods ; hut the; Gothic architecture of Ireland is no more slavish copy of English models ; it exhibits peculiarities of great interest, and it seems doubtful if English influence played such a preponderating part in its development as sometimes is thought.
The name Roscommon (Holiday Apartments, Roscommon, Ireland) comes from the combination of the Gaelic word Ros, which means wooded and St. Coman, who was a famous saint that established a monastary there in the 6th century. Dominican monks later founded an abbey in place of the monastary during the 13th century.
Northern Roscommon was the sovereign dominion of the Mac Dermot clan, and Southern Roscommon was ruled by the OKelly clan. The Norman occupation had a minimal influence on Roscommon (Self Catering, Roscommon, Ireland), and the later Crowellian confiscations and divisions excluded all of Connaught, except as the new refuge for displaced Irish from the east.
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