Mainistir Ros Comáin | |
Monastery information | |
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Other names | Ros-comain; Ros-chomon; Ros-camain; Ros-coman |
Order | Canons Regular of Saint Augustine/Dominicans |
Established | 1140 |
Disestablished | 1578 |
Diocese | Elphin |
Architecture | |
Status | ruined |
Style | Norman |
Site | |
Location | Ballypheasan, Roscommon, County Roscommon |
Coordinates | 53°37′29.158″N8°11′30.487″W / 53.62476611°N 8.19180194°W |
Public access | yes |
Official name | Roscommon Abbey |
Reference no. | 362 |
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Roscommon Abbey was a Dominican priory founded in 1253 by Fedlim Ó Conchobair, king of Connacht. It was plundered by Mac William de Burgo 1260. It was hit by fire in 1270 and lightning in 1308. [2]
Roscommon Abbey was dissolved before 1578; granted to Sir Nicholas Malby in 1578 and to Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia in 1615. [3]
Roscommon Friary is located in the southern part of Roscommon town, The church consisted of a single long aisle with nave and choir; the northern transept was added in the fifteenth century.
On his death in 1265 Fedlim Ó Conchobair was interred in the abbey and his tomb was covered by an effigial slab which can still be seen in a niche in the north-east corner of the church. The effigy was carved between 1290 and 1300 and is one of only two Irish royal effigies surviving from this period. [4]
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