Editing County Roscommon

{{Short description|County in Ireland}}
{{for|the county in the United States|Roscommon County, Michigan}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=July 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox settlement
|name                   = County Roscommon
|native_name            = {{lang|ga|Contae Ros Comáin}}
|settlement_type        = [[Counties of Ireland|County]]
|native_name_lang       = ga
|image_flag             = 
|image_shield           = Roscommon COA.png
|shield_size            = 100px
|motto                  = {{langx|la|Constans Hiberniae Cor}}<br />"Steadfast Irish heart"
|image_map              = Island of Ireland location map Roscommon.svg
|subdivision_type       = [[Sovereign state|Country]]
|subdivision_name       = [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
|subdivision_type1      = [[Provinces of Ireland|Province]]
|subdivision_name1      = [[Connacht]]
|subdivision_type2      = [[Regions of Ireland|Region]]
|subdivision_name2      = [[Northern and Western Region|Northern and Western]]
|seat_type              = [[County town]]
|seat                   = [[Roscommon]]
|leader_title           = [[Local government in the Republic of Ireland|Local authority]]
|leader_name            = [[Roscommon County Council]]
|leader_title2          = [[Dáil constituencies]]
|leader_title3          = [[European Parliament constituencies in the Republic of Ireland|EP constituency]]
|leader_name2           = [[Roscommon–Galway (Dáil constituency)|Roscommon–Galway]] <br /> [[Sligo–Leitrim (Dáil constituency)|Sligo–Leitrim]]
|leader_name3           = [[Midlands–North-West (European Parliament constituency)|Midlands–North-West]]
|area_total_km2         = 2548
|area_rank              = [[List of Irish counties by area|11th]]
|area_footnotes         = <ref name=WDC>{{cite web | title = County Profiles – Roscommon | url = https://westerndevelopment.ie/policy/our-region/roscommon-county-analysis/ | publisher = Western Development Commission | access-date = 2 June 2021 | archive-date = 2 June 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210602223051/https://westerndevelopment.ie/policy/our-region/roscommon-county-analysis/ | url-status = live }}</ref>
|population_total       = 70,259
|population_density_km2 = auto
|population_as_of       = [[2022 census of Ireland|2022]]
|population_footnotes   = <ref name="census2022prelim">{{cite web|url = https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cpr/censusofpopulation2022-preliminaryresults/geographicchanges/ | publisher = Central Statistics Office | title = Census of Population 2022 – Preliminary Results | date = 23 June 2022 }}</ref>
|population_rank        = [[List of Irish counties by population|26th]]
|unemployment_rate = 
|blank_name_sec1        = [[Vehicle registration plates of Ireland|Vehicle index<br />mark code]]
|blank_info_sec1        = RN
|website                = {{official website}}
|timezone               = [[Western European Time|WET]]
|utc_offset             = ±0
|timezone_DST           = [[Irish Standard Time|IST]]
|utc_offset_DST         = +1
| established_title     = Established
| established_date      = {{circa|1569}}<ref>{{cite journal|first=Joseph|last=Mannion|title=Elizabethan County Galway: The Origin and Evolution of an Administrative Unit of Tudor Local Government|date=20 June 2019|journal=Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society|volume=64|pages=64–89|jstor = 24612855}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/County_Galway,_Ireland_Genealogy|title=County Galway, Ireland Genealogy Genealogy – FamilySearch Wiki|website=familysearch.org|access-date=20 June 2019|archive-date=28 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728224820/https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/County_Galway,_Ireland_Genealogy|url-status=live}}</ref>
| area_code_type = [[Telephone numbers in the Republic of Ireland|Telephone area codes]]
| area_code = 071, 090 <small>(primarily)</small>
| postal_code_type      = [[Eircode]] routing keys
| postal_code           = F42, F45, F52 <small>(primarily)</small>
| elevation_max_m       = 428
| elevation_max_point   = [[Seltannasaggart]]
| module                = {{infobox mapframe|zoom=7}}
| iso_code              = IE-RN
}}
'''County Roscommon''' ({{langx|ga|Contae Ros Comáin}}) is a [[Counties of Ireland|county]] in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]. It is part of the province of [[Connacht]] and the [[Northern and Western Region]]. It is the [[List of Irish counties by area|11th largest]] Irish county by area and [[List of Irish counties by population|26th most populous]]. Its [[county town]] and largest town is [[Roscommon]]. [[Roscommon County Council]] is the [[Local government in the Republic of Ireland|local authority]] for the county. The population of the county was 69,995 as of the 2022 census.<ref name="census2022prelim"/>

==Etymology==
County Roscommon is named after the [[county town]] of [[Roscommon]]. Roscommon comes from the Irish ''Ros'' meaning a wooded, gentle height and ''[[Coman mac Faelchon|Comán]]'', the first abbot and bishop of Roscommon who founded the first monastery there in 550 AD.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/what-do-irelands-county-names-mean-translations-of-the-irish-names-226474671-237781971|title=What do Ireland's county names mean?|last=Walsh|first=Jane|date=2016-09-09|newspaper=IrishCentral.com|access-date=2016-11-22|archive-date=10 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110235245/http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/what-do-irelands-county-names-mean-translations-of-the-irish-names-226474671-237781971|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Geography==
County Roscommon has an area of {{convert|2548|km2}}.<ref name=WDC/> [[Lough Key]] in north Roscommon is noted for having thirty-two islands. The [[geographical centre of Ireland]] is located on the western shore of [[Lough Ree]] in the south of the county.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.osi.ie/en/faq/faq3.aspx |title=Ordnance Survey Ireland: FAQs |access-date=2016-02-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120228155031/http://www.osi.ie/en/faq/faq3.aspx |archive-date=28 February 2012 }}</ref>

Roscommon is the third largest of Connacht's five counties by size and the second-smallest in terms of population. It ranks 11th in size of Ireland's 32 counties, but 26th in terms of population, making it the 3rd most sparsely populated county after Leitrim and Mayo. The county borders every other [[Connacht]] county: [[County Galway|Galway]], [[County Mayo|Mayo]], [[County Sligo|Sligo]], and [[County Leitrim|Leitrim]], as well as three [[Leinster]] counties: [[County Longford|Longford]], [[County Westmeath|Westmeath]], and [[County Offaly|Offaly]]. In 2008, a news report said that statistically, people from Roscommon have the longest life expectancy of any county on the island of Ireland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0812/health.html |title=Roscommon tops life expectancy study |date=12 August 2008 |work=RTÉ News |publisher=RTÉ Commercial Enterprises |location=Dublin |access-date=19 August 2009 |archive-date=4 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080904072830/http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0812/health.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Seltannasaggart]], which is located along the northern border with [[County Leitrim]], is the tallest point in County Roscommon, measuring to a height of 
{{convert|428|m|ft|2|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mountainviews.ie/summit/698/?PHPSESSID=87tvm76ra11k249hp2l55gf6b2|title=Seltannasaggart 428m hill, Arigna Mountains Ireland at MountainViews.ie|website=mountainviews.ie|access-date=10 November 2016|archive-date=10 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110173532/http://mountainviews.ie/summit/698/?PHPSESSID=87tvm76ra11k249hp2l55gf6b2|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Largest towns by population===
According to the 2016 census:<ref name=WDC/>
#[[Roscommon]] 5,876
#[[Boyle, County Roscommon|Boyle]] 2,568
#[[Castlerea]] 1,992
#[[Ballaghaderreen]] 1,808

==Baronies==
There are nine historical [[Barony (Ireland)|baronies]] in County Roscommon.

'''North Roscommon'''
*[[Boyle (barony)|Boyle]] (north Roscommon including [[Boyle, County Roscommon|Boyle]] and [[Arigna]]).
*[[Frenchpark (barony)|Frenchpark]] (north-west, including [[Ballaghaderreen]] and [[Frenchpark]]).
*[[Roscommon (barony)|Roscommon]] (mid-north-east, including [[Strokestown]] and [[Tulsk]]).
*[[Castlereagh (County Roscommon barony)|Castlereagh]] (west, including [[Castlerea]] and [[Ballinlough, County Roscommon|Ballinlough]]).
*[[Ballintober North]] (east including [[Rooskey]] and [[Tarmonbarry]]).

'''South Roscommon'''
*''[[Ballymoe (County Roscommon barony)|Ballymoe]]'' shared with [[County Galway]] includes [[Ballymoe]], [[Creggs]] and [[Glenamaddy]].
*[[Ballintober South]] (south-mid-east, including [[Roscommon]]).
*[[Athlone (barony)|Athlone]] (mid-south, including [[Knockcroghery]] and part of [[Athlone]]).
*[[Moycarn]] (far-south, including part of [[Ballinasloe]]).

==History==
[[File:RiverSuck2781.jpg|220px|thumbnail|River Suck at [[Athleague]].]]
[[Rathcroghan]] ({{langx|ga|Rath Cruachán}}), near [[Tulsk]], a complex of archaeological sites, the home of [[Queen regnant|Queen]] [[Medb]] ({{langx|ga|Méadhbh}}, anglicised Maeve), was the seat of Kings of Connacht and then to the High Kings of Ireland.  This was the starting point of the ''[[Táin Bó Cúailnge]]'', or Cattle Raid of Cooley, an epic tale in [[Irish mythology]]. The county is home to prehistoric [[ringforts]] such as [[Carnagh West Ringfort]] and [[Drummin fort]].

County Roscommon as an administrative division has its roots in the Middle Ages. With the conquest and division of the [[Kingdom of Connacht]], those districts in the east retained by [[John, King of England|King John]] as "The King's [[Cantred]]s" covered County Roscommon, and parts of East [[County Galway|Galway]]. These districts were leased to the native kings of Connacht and eventually became the county. In 1585 during the Tudor re-establishment of counties under the [[Composition of Connacht]], Roscommon was established with the South-west boundary now alongside the [[River Suck]].

===Medieval art===
A "well defined" and "original" fine metal workshop was active in County Roscommon in the 12th century. The [[Cross of Cong]], [[Aghadoe Cathedral#Artifacts|the Aghadoe crosier]], Shrine of the [[Book of Dimma]] and [[Shrine of Manchan|Shrine of Manchan of Mohill]]' are grouped together as having been created by ''Mael Isu Bratain Ui Echach'' et al., at the same Roscommon workshop.{{sfn|Ó Floinn|1987|pp=179–187}}{{sfn|Hourihane|2012|pp=225}}{{sfn|Edwards|2013|pp=147}}{{sfn|Karkov|Ryan|Farrell|1997|pp=269}} The workshop has been linked to [[Assicus#Artisan|St. Assicus]] of Elphin.{{sfn|Kelly|1902|pp=291–292}}

===Ordnance Survey===
[[File:Roscommon Castle view.jpg|220px|thumb|Roscommon Castle]]
[[John O'Donovan (scholar)|John O'Donovan]] (1806–1861), historian and scholar, visited County Roscommon in 1837, while compiling information for the [[Ordnance Survey]]. Entering St Peter's parish in Athlone in June 1837, he wrote, "I have now entered upon a region totally different from Longford, and am very much pleased with the intelligence of the people." However, he had major problems with place-names. He later wrote, "I am sick to death's door of lochawns, and it pains me to the very soul to have to make these remarks, but what can I do when I cannot make the usual progress? Here I am stuck in the mud in the middle of Loughs, Turlaghs, Lahaghs and Curraghs, the names of many of which are only known to a few old men in their immediate neighbourhood and I cannot give many of them utterance from the manner in which they are spelled."<ref>{{cite thesis|last=Hunt |first=Roy |title=Painful progress: the slow evolution of County Roscommon society, 1850–1914 |publisher=[[National University of Ireland Galway]] |year=2010 |page=8}}</ref><ref>John O' Donovan, "Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the County of Roscommon, collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey, 1837". p. 5. Special collections section, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009, reproduced by Rev. Michael O'Flanagan, Bray 1927.</ref>
[[File:River Shannon, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland - geograph.org.uk - 345361.jpg|220px|thumbnail|The [[River Shannon]] running through [[Athlone]] town.]]
[[File:Lough Key from Above 2010.jpg|220px|thumb|[[Lough Key]]]]

== Places of interest ==
{{See also|List of National Monuments in County Roscommon}}
*[[Arigna Mining Experience]]
*[[Boyle Abbey]]
*[[Clonalis House]]
*[[Elphin Windmill]]
*[[Lough Key Forest Park]]
*[[McDermott's Castle]]
*[[Meehambee Dolmen]]
*[[National Famine Museum]]
*[[Rathcroghan]]
*[[Roscommon County Museum]]
*[[Strokestown Park]]

==Government and politics==
{{main|Roscommon County Council}}
[[File:County Hall, Roscommon - 2024-12-27.jpg|thumb|Roscommon County Hall in 2024]]
Roscommon is governed locally by the 18-member [[Roscommon County Council]], a body created under the [[Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898]].

The 1898 Act also divided the county into the rural districts of Athlone No. 2, Ballinasloe No. 2, Boyle No. 1, Carrick-on-Shannon No. 2, Castlerea, Roscommon, and Strokestown.<ref>{{cite book |last=Clancy |first=John Joseph|author-link=J. J. Clancy (North Dublin MP)|title=A handbook of local government in Ireland: containing an explanatory introduction to the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898: together with the text of the act, the orders in Council, and the rules made thereunder relating to county council, rural district council, and guardian's elections: with an index|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookoflocalg00clan/page/424/mode/2up |page=424 |year=1899|publisher=Sealy, Bryers and Walker|location=Dublin }}</ref> The rural districts were abolished in 1925.<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|year=1925|parl=ifs|number=5|name=[[Local Government Act 1925]]|date=26 March 1925|section=3|stitle=Abolition of rural district councils|access-date=22 December 2021}}</ref> [[Boyle, County Roscommon|Boyle]] and [[Roscommon]] were administered locally by [[town commissioners]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1926 Census: Table 9: Population, Area and Valuation of urban and rural districts and of all towns with a population of 1,500 inhabitants or over, showing particulars of town and village population and of the number of persons per 100 acres |url=https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/census1926results/volume1/C_1926_V1_T9.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427074421/http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/census1926results/volume1/C_1926_V1_T9.pdf |archive-date=2016-04-27 |url-status=live |publisher=Central Statistics Office |page=28 |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref> Roscommon town commissioners were abolished in 1927. After becoming a [[town council (Ireland)|town council]] in 2002,<ref>{{Cite Irish legislation|year=2001|number=37|name=[[Local Government Act 2001]]|schedno=6|stitle=Local Government Areas (Towns)|date=21 July 2001|access-date=3 August 2022}}</ref> in common with all other town councils in Ireland, Boyle Town Council was abolished under the [[Local Government Reform Act 2014]].<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|name=[[Local Government Reform Act 2014]]|year=2014|section=24|stitle=Dissolution of town councils and transfer date|number=1|date=27 January 2014|access-date=21 May 2022}}</ref>

For general elections, Roscommon is completely within the three-seat [[Dáil constituency]] of [[Roscommon–Galway (Dáil constituency)|Roscommon–Galway]]. For European elections, the county is part of the [[Midlands–North-West (European Parliament constituency)|Midlands–North-West]] constituency.

==Rail transport==
There are railway stations located in [[Boyle, County Roscommon|Boyle]] (Dublin–Sligo line), [[Carrick-on-Shannon]] (Dublin–Sligo line), [[Roscommon]] (Dublin–Westport line), [[Castlerea]] (Dublin-Westport line), [[Ballinasloe]] (Dublin-Galway line) and [[Athlone]] (Dublin–Galway and Dublin–Westport lines).

==Sport==
[[Gaelic football]] is the dominant sport in Roscommon. Roscommon won the [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]]s in 1943 and 1944 and the [[National Football League (Ireland)|National Football League]] [[National Football League (Ireland)#Division 1|Division 1]] in 1979, as well as [[2015 National Football League (Ireland)#Division 2|Division 2]] in 2015 and 2018. Roscommon have captured the [[Connacht Senior Football Championship]] on 23 occasions, the most recent being in 2019. In March 2025 Roscommon won back promotion to Division 1.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/roscommon-promoted-and-through-to-division-2-final-despite-westmeath-draw/a1578978123.html?errorCode=0 | title=Mayo and Kerry to meet in final as Tyrone are relegated following dramatic day in Allianz League | date=23 March 2025 }}</ref>

Roscommon's main [[hurling]] title was the 2007 [[Nicky Rackard Cup]].

[[Soccer]] and [[Rugby football|rugby]] are also popular sports in the county.

==Notable people==
{{See also|Category:People from County Roscommon}}
*[[Charles O'Conor (historian)|Charles O'Conor]] (1710–1791), historian and antiquarian of the O'Conor Don family
*[[Matthew O'Conor]] Don (1773–1844) historian born in [[Ballinagare]]
*[[Arthur French, 1st Baron de Freyne]] (1786–1856), Member of Parliament and landlord of [[Frenchpark]] House
*[[Sir John Scott Lillie]] (1790–1868) [[Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath|CB]], decorated [[Peninsular War]] veteran, inventor and political activist in England
*[[James Curley (astronomer)|James Curley]] (1796–1889), Jesuit and astronomer, born in [[Athleague]]
*[[William Wilde]] (1815–1876), surgeon, innovator and father of [[Oscar Wilde]], born in [[Castlerea]]
*[[Michael Dockry]] (born 1817), member of the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]]
*[[Thomas Curley (Wisconsin general)|Thomas Curley]] (1825–1904), American Civil War colonel, farmer and [[Wisconsin]] legislator, born in [[Athleague|Tremane, near Athleague]]
*[[John G. Downey|John Gately Downey]] (24 June 1827 – 1 March 1894), [[List of Governors of California|seventh]] [[governor of California]] from 14 January 1860 to 10 January 1862
*[[Henry Gore-Browne]] (1830–1912), [[Victoria Cross]] recipient, born in Newtown
*[[Luke O'Connor]] (1831–1915), first soldier to receive the [[Victoria Cross]], born in Hillstreet, near [[Elphin, County Roscommon|Elphin]]
*[[John Fitzgibbon (politician)|John Fitzgibbon]] (1845–1919), Member of Parliament
*[[William Griffiths (VC)|William Griffiths]] (1841–1879), recipient of the Victoria Cross, born in County Roscommon
*[[Percy French]] (1854–1920), born in [[Tulsk]], was a foremost songwriter and entertainer, and water-colour painter
*Sir [[Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd|Owen Lloyd]] (1854–1941), recipient of the Victoria Cross, born in County Roscommon
*[[Thomas Heazle Parke]] (1857–1893, explorer and naturalist, born at Clogher House, Kilmore
*[[Charlotte O'Conor Eccles]] (1860–1911) writer, journalist and translator born in the county
*[[Roderic O'Conor]] (1860–1940), [[impressionist]] artist of the O'Conor Don Family
*[[Douglas Hyde]] (1860–1949), scholar of the Irish language, first [[President of Ireland]] (1938–45), founder of the [[Conradh na Gaeilge|Gaelic League]] during the Revival of the late 19th – early 20th century, born in Castlerea and buried in the Hyde Museum, [[Frenchpark]]
*[[Margaret Cousins]] (née Gillespie, 1878–1954), educationist and suffragist in India, born in [[Boyle, County Roscommon|Boyle]]
*[[Edward J. Flanagan|Edward Flanagan]] (1886–1948), priest and founder of the orphanage [[Boys Town (organization)|Boys Town]]
*[[Maureen O'Sullivan]] (1911–1998), Ireland's first international movie star, born in Boyle
*[[Máire McDonnell-Garvey]] (1927–2009), Traditional Irish musician born in Tobracken near [[Ballaghaderreen]]
*[[Brian O'Doherty]] (1928-2022), artist and [[art critic]] in New York City, born in [[Ballaghaderreen]]
*[[Albert Reynolds]] (1932–2014), [[Taoiseach]], born in [[Rooskey]]
*[[Nuala Quinn-Barton]] (born 1952), US film producer, artist and model brought up at Killerr, [[Ballintober, County Roscommon|Ballintober]]
*[[Brian Leyden]] (born 1960), novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and documentarian of [[Arigna]]
*[[Luke 'Ming' Flanagan]] (born 1972), politician and MEP born in Roscommon
*[[Chris O'Dowd]] (born 1979), actor and comedian, born in Boyle
*[[Seamus O'Neill (Gaelic footballer)|Seamus O'Neill]] (born 1982 or 1983), Gaelic footballer
*[[Bernard J. D. Irwin|Bernard J.D Irwin]] 1st Recipient of The [[Medal of Honor|Medal Of Honor]] 

==See also==
* [[Counties of Ireland]]
* [[Earl of Roscommon]]
* [[High Sheriff of Roscommon]]
* [[List of monastic houses in Ireland#County Roscommon|List of abbeys and priories in Ireland (County Roscommon)]]
* [[Lord Lieutenant of Roscommon]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{wikivoyage}}
{{commons category}}
* {{official website}} – Roscommon County Council
* [http://www.rathcroghan.ie/ Rathcroghan, Celtic Royal site of Connacht]

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|Centre = County Roscommon
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