Roscommon
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- This article is about the town in Ireland. For other uses see Roscommon (disambiguation).
Template:Infobox Irish Place 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.
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