Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon (1633–1685) This article is about Roscommon, the town in Ireland. ...
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Johnson, Samuel. "Preface to Roscommon." Prefaces, Biographical and Critical to the Works of the English Poets. 10 vols. Vol 6. London: J. Nicols, 1779.
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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