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Roscommon Abbey was founded by St. Comman in the eighth century. That monastery survived as a house of Augustinian Canons into the fifteenth century but nothing of it survives today. The Dominican Friary was founded by Fedhlim O'Conchobhair, King of Connacht, in 1253 on the new site. The Friary was dissolved at the end of the sixteenth century during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. On his death in 1265 Fedhlim O'Conchobhair was interred in the abbey and his tomb was covered by an effigial slab which can still be seen in a niche in the north-east corner of the church. The effigy was carved between 1290 and 1300 and is one of only two Irish royal effigies surviving from this period. (Text mostly from Cultural Heritage Ireland Link ).