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Extract from the Roscommon Travel Guides:
More or less in the centre of the county, there's nothing much to
ROSCOMMON
, but it's an oddly pleasant town to spend time and soak up the atmosphere. Its solid tone is set by heavy, stone buildings - among them the Bank of Ireland, once the courthouse, and the
county jail
, now housing a collection of shops, its serrated top giving the town a characteristic silhouette, identifiable for miles around. The jail was the scene of all public hangings in the county and used to have a woman executioner called Lady Betty, whose own sentence for murder was revoked on condition that she did her gruesome job for free.
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read the whole Roscommon Travel Guides...
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