: The variant spelling ' Elphin ' may refer to the town of Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland or the Diocese of Elphin, cathedral in Sligo Town, Co. Sligo, Ireland.

It is named after the town of Roscommon.

Roscommon () is the county town of County Roscommon in Ireland.

The impressive ruins of Roscommon castle are located on a hillside just outside the town, the castle is quadrangular in shape, it had four corner D-shaped towers, three storey ’ s high, and twin towers at its entrance gateway, one of which still retains its immensely sturdy vaulted roof.

After 1903 it became a recreational hall to commemorate Dr John Harrison ( who was a physician in Roscommon town ’ s workhouse, during the famine of the 1840s ) it was used as a dance hall, cinema and theatre before it was sold to the Bank of Ireland in 1972.

The ruined Abbey of Roscommon is on the outskirts of the core of the town, and is reachable by a path at the back of the Abbey Hotel running alongside the Abbey boy's school.

The workhouse building was constructed in 1840, in response to a sudden increase in extreme poverty and famine in the Roscommon town area.

The health services of Roscommon town serve all of County Roscommon and the surrounding areas, with a catchment population of around 70, 000.

It was named after the town and county of Roscommon in Ireland.

In 2000 Gaelscoil de hÍde was set up in Roscommon town.

Monksland for example, a suburb on the west side of the town, is not within the official town boundaries, yet it is the most populous area of County Roscommon.

Athlone is near the geographical centre of Ireland which is 8. 85 kilometres north-northwest of the town, in the townland of Carnagh East in County Roscommon.

As an ancient stronghold of the O ' Rourkes of Breifne and their ofttimes rivals, the O ' Raghnaills ( Reynolds ) of North Roscommon, the town was granted a royal charter and named a borough with its own seal in 1607.

A short drive from the town will leads across the bridge to County Roscommon.

Longford lies at the meeting of the N4 and the N5 primary routes, which means that traffic travelling between Dublin and Counties Mayo and Roscommon passes through the town.

Instead, the guide described Castlerea: ' Altogether, Castlerea is a very neat, pleasant and agreeable little town, exhibiting less poverty than other towns in the county '.< Hunt, Roy, ' Painful progress: the slow evolution of County Roscommon society, 1850-1914.

A ' concerned inhabitant ' wrote to the Roscommon Messenger ( 7 Feb. 1891 ) complaining about the ' neglected and unsanitary state of the roads and footpaths of the town '.

He was born George Brendan Nolan in Raharabeg, County Roscommon on the opposite bank of the River Shannon from the town of Shannonbridge, County Offaly, Ireland, the son of a British Army officer.

The earliest mention of Tubbercurry is from 1397 when a battle took place in the town between two O ’ Connor families, the O ’ Connor Don from Roscommon and the O ’ Connors from Sligo town.

Boyle () is a town in County Roscommon, Ireland.

In 2008, a news report said that statistically, Roscommon has the longest life expectancy of any county on the island of Ireland.

County Roscommon as an administrative division has its origins in the medieval period.

Roscommon has a leisure centre which opened early 2002 and has a 25 m ( 82 ft ) deck level pool with a learner swimming pool and spectator gallery and fully equipped gymnasium.

In 1617, Aedh Ó Mannin ( Hugh O ' Mannin ) surrendered his estates, but a small portion of it was restored under the Act of Settlement in 1676 where the name is still common in Galway and Roscommon, and has spread into other parts of Ireland.

His recitation, in his native Roscommon Irish dialect, remains one of the few recordings of a dialect that has long disappeared and of which Hyde himself was one of the last speakers.

Athlone has many Gaelic football teams including Garrycastle GAA, Athlone GAA, with St. Brigids ( Roscommon ) GAA and Clann na nGael GAA ( Roscommon ) being located outside Athlone itself.

* Since May 2011, there has been an ongoing outbreak in South Roscommon in Ireland.

He has been a Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Roscommon – South Leitrim constituency since 2007.

Before he was 18 he has tasted Connacht Colleges glory and also won a Roscommon minor hurling medal with Ballygar.

Archaeological research conducted by the Discovery Programme, Ireland ’ s archaeological research institute funded by the Heritage Council, has been examining the nature of Gaelic lordship and settlement in north Roscommon during the later medieval period, c. 1170-1650 AD.

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 '.< Hunt, Roy, ' Painful progress: the slow evolution of County Roscommon society, 1850-1914 '.

The building was renovated in 1991 and now contains many exhibits and artifacts illustrating and interpreting the history of Roscommon.

* Kirtland Center for the Performing Arts, located at the Kirtland Community College in Roscommon, Michigan hosts many visiting performers, including regular visits from The Second City traveling ensemble.

There is evidence in the Trias Thaumaturga for Brigit's stay in Connacht, especially in County Roscommon and also in the many churches founded by her in the Diocese of Elphin.

The French family had been major landowners in County Sligo and County Roscommon for many years.

The constituency spanned the entire area of County Longford and County Roscommon, taking in the towns of Longford and Roscommon and many other areas.

He was for many years a pastor of a Protestant church at Caen, and also studied in Oxford, where he was tutor to Wentworth Dillon, later Earl of Roscommon.

His father, Dillon O ' Brien ( 1817 – 82 ), novelist, was born in Tullabeg, Co. Roscommon, Ireland and educated there, he emigrated to the USA, working as a teacher among Native Americans in the Wisconsin town of La Pointe, on Madeline Island before settling his family in St Paul, Minnesota in 1863 to work with Archbishop John Ireland helped establish many Irish Catholic colonies in Minnesota.

Their traditional capital was Cruachan ( modern Rathcroghan, County Roscommon ).

Moylurg was an ancient kingdom in what is now northern County Roscommon, Ireland and lay within the Kingdom of Connacht which included the modern counties of Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo.

Additionally, in 1385, the MacDermots Roe established the Dominican Priory of the Holy Cross at Cloonshanville, near modern day Frenchpark in County Roscommon.