co roscommon in the republic of ireland what does roscommon mean?

Answer 1

Roscommon (Ros Comáin)
Ros is an Irish word for a wood or headland and Roscommon in the center of Ireland was heavily wooded at the time of St. Coman who founded a monastery there in the first half of the eighth century, so the name Ros Comáin mean St. Coman's Wood.
"St. Coman was the author of a monastic rule known as the "Law of Coman", a code of great ecclesiastical and general penitentiary importance which was held in great veneration and preached for many centuries after his death." You can read more about him at the sites below.

Answer 2

County Roscommon, Ireland; owes origin and name to a monastery founded by St. Coman in the first half of the eighth century on a "ros" or wooded point amidst marshes.

Answer 3

No yet we flow to there often, practically offered the railway cottage on Marion highway till at last we observed merely how close the music replaced into, Say hi to Eddie and Sylvia in Crightons bar for us, do you recognize the Cooney's, The Noone's and The Smith's? we would be over in March all being properly tell em Slainte !

Answer 4

Wasn't the pagan goddess who was worshipped there called rose? try looking up Irish pagan gods/ worship;
they offered up there children and shed there blood in exchange for the land.
Ros-common may be linked. People who came after paganism often used old sacrificial sites to build christian/catholic Churches and monasteries etc. which would be near towns and villages called Ros-common etc.

Answer 5

Ros Comáin = Corman's fort