Roscam
Four kilometres east of the city, where the suburb of Roscam meets the water of Oranmore Bay, a stump of round tower stands inside a wide enclosure. It was never finished, and it once marked the edge of the O'Halloran country. The monastery it belonged to goes back to the fifth century, and Vikings attacked it in 807.
Checked against the source on 2026-09-19.
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Roscam Folly, Roscam Church, Roscam Medical Practice on the 3D model; tap a pin for its page and directions.
Patrick, Odran and the Vikings
Legend links the founding to St Patrick, and the site was associated with Odran, a brother of Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, in the sixth century, when St Aedus is said to have brought the bones of Brión mac Echach Muigmedóin here. The Viking raid came in AD 807. The round tower dates from the eleventh century and the church from the fifteenth; in the Middle Ages the place was well outside the town and was said to have been used for duels.
What is there
A limestone round tower 11 metres tall, several bullaun stones and a church 22 metres long, all inside a large enclosure, immediately north of the bay and just south of the housing that took its name. The model pins Roscam's church and folly with the medical practice and resource centre nearby.
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Written from Wikipedia, "Roscam" (CC BY-SA 4.0), read on 2026-09-19, and from the OpenStreetMap places on the model. Nothing has been added from memory; follow the source for its footnotes.