The district around Ballymote is rich in ruins. The most important of these is Emlaghfad. Its name is derived from a boggy or marshy place and one has only to pay a visit there to realise how suitable is the name. The walls of the Abbey are now covered with ivy and lichen but these do not conceal the magnificent structure of a once great building. It has a high rectangular tower surmounted by smaller spires. Since the Abbey is on a height it is a very impressive building and adds to the old-world beauty of the town. A short distance from the town beside the graveyard of Carrananty[?] is round tower. Tradition says that there is a king buried there and that the Round Tower is a monument erected to his memory.