Overview
graveyard/cemetery — Circular Road is recorded as graveyard/cemetery in Roscommon. Graveyard, c.1800, set within ruins of medieval abbey. Comprising variety of limestone upright, recumbent and wall-mounted gravemarkers dating from late-eighteenth to early-twentieth centuries.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Rock-faced mausoleum of the Kellys of Essex Lawn, a house located to the north of Roscommon town centre is located to the north of the abbey.
People and work
The saved account records: Graveyard, c.1800, set within ruins of medieval abbey.
How it changed
The saved account records: Comprising variety of limestone upright, recumbent and wall-mounted gravemarkers dating from late-eighteenth to early-twentieth centuries.
What survives
The saved account records: Earliest legible grave-marker dates to 1797.
Why it mattered
graveyard/cemetery — Circular Road matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Though no longer in use, the remains of the medieval abbey, together with the collection of grave-markers attest to the long tradition of religious activity on the site, thus placing it centrally in the ecclesiastical history of Roscommon. Artistic detailing is apparent in the execution of many of the carved grave-markers. The cessation of the use of this site appears to coincide with the establishment of St Coman's Cemetery in 1912. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Mapped graveyard — County Roscommonmemorialunder 0.1 miles
- Abbey — Ballypheasanmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Graveslab in Ballypheasanmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Indicated — Ballypheasanmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Stone sculpture in Ballypheasanmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Tomb — effigial in Ballypheasanmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Tomb — unclassified in Ballypheasanmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Wall monument in Ballypheasanmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Architectural fragment in Ballypheasanmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- The Abbey — Abbeytownbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Roscommon County Library — Galway Roadbuilding0.2 miles
- Roscommon Railway Station — Galway Roadbuilding0.2 miles
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