Roscommon - Dominican Abbey

Roscommon takes its name from St Coman, who founded a monastery here in the sixth century. Of the original monastery nothing survives, but there still exists the ruins of a Dominican abbey founded by Felim O'Connor, King of Connacht, in 1253. In a canopied niche on the north wall of the church (National Monument) is the founder's tomb (ca. 1290), with the figures of eight armed retainers.