placenamesRosbercon
Ros Bearrcon
Lewis recorded a church tower carried on four pointed arches beside the Barrow.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Ros Bearrcon · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rosbercon · English · main form
Place & story
A record of the ruined monastery
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Rosbercon identifies a former monastery dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Among the ruins he recorded a tall church tower supported on four pointed arches and an aisle’s southern wall with five arches and ten windows. His account places these remains in the parish on the western bank of the Barrow beside New Ross. The detailed counts preserve a description of what he reported then; they do not establish how much of the structure survives today. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rosbercon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rossbercon, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.