{"id":27269,"count":1,"description":"Roscommon (Irish: Ros Com\u00e1in, meaning \"Saint Coman's wood\") is the county town of County Roscommon in Ireland. Its population at the 2006 census stood at 5,017 (including rural area). The town is located near the junctions of the N60, N61 and N63 roads.\nThe name Roscommon is derived from Coman mac Faelchon who built a monastery there in the 5th century. The woods near the monastery became known as Saint Coman's Wood (Ros Com\u00e1in). This was later anglicised to Roscommon. The town is the location of a notable archaeological find in 1945 when a lunula, a gold necklace, and two discs were discovered. Both items are dated to the period 2,300 and 1,800 BC.\nIt was the homeland of the Connachta dynasty, and included such kingdoms as U\u00ed Maine, Delbhna Nuadat, S\u00edol Muirdeach, and Moylurg. In addition, it contained areas known as Tr\u00edcha c\u00e9t's, T\u00faath and is the homeland of surnames such as \u00d3 Conchobhair (O'Connor), Mac Diarmada (McDermott), \u00d3 Ceallaigh (Kelly), \u00d3 Birn (Beirne, Byrne, Burns), Mac...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/roscommon\/","name":"Roscommon","slug":"roscommon","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/27269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=27269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}