Features
Two miles from the town is a Cistercian monastery, Mount St. Joseph Abbey, and a boarding school for boys, Cistercian College.
Notable architectural features include the round tower, Roscrea Castle, the Damer House complex and the "Fancy Fountain". The latter feature was re-located from the old "Market Square" at the foot of Main Street to its present site in Rosemary Square.
The town is close to the Slieve Bloom Mountains. In ancient times, Ireland had five main radial roads leading to the Hill of Tara, seat of the High King. Roscrea is located on one of these ancient roads, the "Slighe Dhála", at a pass between the Slieve Bloom mountains and Devil's Bit mountain.
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