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Roscommon
County Roscommon · Connacht

About Roscommon

Roscommon, Ros Comáin in Irish, is a town in County Roscommon, 69 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N60, N61 and N63. The map gives it 4,913 buildings and 76 named streets, with 145 places named on them in 77 kinds, and 41 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
69 km north-east of Galway, 131 km from Dublin
Position
53.6312° N, 8.1907° W, 80 m above sea level
Area
8 km²
Roads
N60, N61, N63, R366, L1812 and L1814
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
4,913 buildings, 76 streets, 145 named places in 77 kinds
Main Street, Roscommon
Main Street, Roscommon·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Harrison Hall, Roscommon
The Harrison Hall, Roscommon·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Roscommon in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1253 to 1971. That is not a history of Roscommon, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

12531971Roscommon AbbeyDoctor Hyde Park
The thirteenth century
  • 1253Roscommon AbbeyAbbeys · 700 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

County Roscommon since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

253,59151,89770,25918412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 41 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N60, N61, N63, R366, L1812 and L1814 running through Roscommon. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 10 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

7 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Roscommon?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 69 km north-east of Galway and 131 km from Dublin, on the N60, N61 and N63.
How big is Roscommon?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 4,913 buildings, 76 named streets and 145 named places, which by building count makes it the largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Roscommon?
41 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Loughlenane Park Playground, Loughlenane Park and Roscommon Castle.
How do you get to Roscommon?
10 bus and train lines call at 9 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Bus4u and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
4,913
buildings on the model
76
named streets
145
named places
77
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q677631). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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