Qualla: Roscommon https://qualla.com/roscommon en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/1/roscommon-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Roscommon https://qualla.com/roscommon Roscommon: Introduction https://qualla.com/roscommon/ Photo credit 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lady Betty was sentenced to hang. Then the gaol of Roscommon found itself without an executioner, and the law required one, and they made her an offer: hang others, and live. She agreed. For decades she pulled the lever in the yard at the north end of the market square - the only female executioner in Irish history, walking out from the gaol Richard Cassells had designed in 1745, doing the work that had been her own sentence. The building she worked in lasted into the 1980s when a developer demolished it down to the facade. The town it served is a thousand years older than her story and a hundred times stranger.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/1/roscommon-wp/gcd1-roscommon-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Roscommon: St Coman's Wood https://qualla.com/roscommon/ Photo credit Darren J. Prior, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name comes from Comman mac Faelchon, who built a monastery here in the 5th century. The woods around it became Ros Comain - St Coman's Wood - and Anglicisation eventually flattened the Irish into Roscommon. The Annals of the Four Masters, of Inisfallen, of Loch Ce, and of Uls...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/1/roscommon-wp/gcd1-roscommon-st-comans-wood.mp3 0:06 2 full Roscommon: Felim's Abbey https://qualla.com/roscommon/ Photo credit Sarah777 at en.wikipedia, Public domain. Roscommon Abbey - more accurately a Dominican friary - was founded around 1253 by Felim O'Connor, King of Connacht. He was buried in it himself in 1265. His effigy in the chancel, carved decades later, shows a king in long English-style robe and mantle holding a fleur-de-lis scep...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/1/roscommon-wp/gcd1-roscommon-felims-abbey.mp3 0:06 3 full Roscommon: Roscommon Castle https://qualla.com/roscommon/ Photo credit Dagmar Willhalm, CC BY-SA 3.0. Built in 1269 by Robert de Ufford, Justiciar of Ireland, on lands he had seized from the Augustinian Priory, Roscommon Castle is one of the great early Anglo-Norman fortifications in Connacht: quadrangular, four corner D-shaped towers, twin towers at the gateway, the whole thing ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/1/roscommon-wp/gcd1-roscommon-roscommon-castle.mp3 0:06 4 full Roscommon: The Workhouse and the Famine https://qualla.com/roscommon/ Photo credit Jim TeVogt, CC BY-SA 2.0. Roscommon suffered as badly as any town in Ireland during An Gorta Mor. The workhouse was built in 1840 to hold 700 paupers; during the worst famine years it tried to hold 1,600. In January 1847 a notice went up outside the door: no new applicants could be admitted. There was no ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/1/roscommon-wp/gcd1-roscommon-the-workhouse-and-the-famine.mp3 0:06 5 full Roscommon: The Skyline https://qualla.com/roscommon/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sacred Heart Catholic Church dominates the town today: 52 metres of spire, built of local cut stone, opened in 1903 and completed in 1925. Over the main door is an Italian-made mosaic of two bishops of Elphin. Inside, until May 2016, was a replica of the Cross of Cong - the origi...

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