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Roscommon Castle
Justiciar of Ireland
Demolished	1690
Governing body	The Office of Public Works (As guardian)
Location of Roscommon Castle in Ireland
National monument of Ireland
Official name	Roscommon Castle
Reference no.	181

Roscommon Castle (

The castle was located on a slope and is now a ruin. It covered a rectangular area and had four D-shaped towers three stories high and a two-tower gatehouse . One of the entrance towers is still preserved today with a vaulted roof. The entire castle was surrounded by a high curtain wall.

The Irish Government are in charge of the care of the castle through the state agency The Office of Public Works (OPW). The castle is on the List of National Monuments in County Roscommon.^[2]

History

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Tourism

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See also

• Castles in Great Britain and Ireland
• List of castles in Ireland
• Lordship of Ireland

References

Further reading

• Murphy, Denis (1891). "The Castle of Roscommon". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 1 (7): 546–556 – via JSTOR.
• McNeill, T. E. (18 August 2005). Castles in Ireland: Feudal Power in a Gaelic World. Taylor & Francis.
  ISBN 9781134708864
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• Cosgrove, Art, ed. (6 November 2008). A New History of Ireland: Medieval Ireland 1169-1534. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  ISBN 9780199539703
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• Moody, T.W., ed. (12 March 2009). A New History of Ireland: Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691. Vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  ISBN 9780199562527
  .

• "Roscommon Castle". Visit Roscommon. Retrieved 8 April 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
• "Roscommon Castle". National Monuments Service. Retrieved 8 April 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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