Roscommon

Connacht province county

Roscommon is a county in the west of Ireland, part of the province of Connacht.

The county town shares the name.

In American usage, Roscommon also appears as a place name in Michigan and elsewhere, carried by Irish emigrants.

As a surname, it indicates ancestry from the region.

county

Boyle

Gas behavior law eponym

Gaelic

Irish language

Celtic language of Ireland

Hyde Park · traditional music · bodhran · fiddle · set dancing

rural

farming

Cultivating land for food

turf · livestock · cattle · sheep · grassland · tillage · meadows · drumlins · wetlands · countryside

heritage

Táin Bó Cúailnge

Old Irish heroic saga

ancestry · clan · antiquities · archaeology · folklore · tradition · mythology

Opposites
geographic position (coastal vs inland)

RoscommonDublin

Irish capital city

Kerry · Cork · Galway · Donegal · Clare

coastal vs landlocked geography

RoscommonCounty Cork

Irish coastal administrative region

Connemara

Family

Ross, common, commonly, uncommon, uncommonly, commonness, commonality, commons, commoner

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G