Roscommon Castle-South West Tower

The location of Roscommon Castle was both strategic and symbolic. Connacht was one of the last Irish kingdoms to fall under Anglo-Norman rule after their invasions of the late 12th century. The powerful Ó Conchobair (O’Conor) kings had fought, and politically manoeuvred, with the invaders in the decades following the invasions. By the 1260s, the Anglo-Normans were locked into a deadly conflict ...