Organisation : | Waterford County Museum |
Article Title : | Lewis's Topographical Dictionary - Waterford County |
Page Title : | Rosduff |
Page Number : | 71 |
Publication Date : | 15 March 2011 |
Expiry Date : | Never Expires |
Category : | Home |
URL : | https://www.waterfordmuseum.ie/exhibit/web?task=Display&art_id=332&pagenum=71&lang=en |
Rosduff, a parish in the barony of Gaultier, union and county of Waterford, and province of Munster; containing 111 inhabitants. This small parish is situated upon the harbour of Waterford, and comprises only 197 statute acres. It was a rectory, in the diocese of Waterford, forming part of the union of Killare, now suppressed: the tithe rent-charge is £7.10. Rossmere, Rossmire or Rossmore Within its limits, at Newtown, on the confinesof the three baronies of Upperthird, Middlethird, and Decies-without-Drum, it was designed to build a new town, of which the streets were marked out and paved, but only a few houses were built, and these have since mostly gone to ruin. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Lismore, and in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire, in whom the rectory is impropriate: the tithe rent-charge is £375, of which £225 are payable top the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar. The church is a modern structure, towards the erection of which the late Board of First Fruits granted a loan of £750; and there is a Roman Catholic chapel. |
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