placenamesRossdroit
Ros Droichid
Lewis recorded the reuse of friary stone and a five-date cattle-fair calendar at Moneyhore.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ros Droichid · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Rossdroit · English · main form
Place & story
Granite from an older religious building
Rossdroit’s church was built in 1795 with a £500 gift from the Board of First Fruits, according to Samuel Lewis. Its original tower later became unsafe and was taken down. Parishioners paid for a replacement, using granite corner stones brought from the ruined Franciscan friary at Enniscorthy. Lewis’s 1837 account records the material’s origin without dating the tower replacement precisely. [2]
Five cattle fairs at Moneyhore
Lewis listed cattle fairs at Moneyhore on 25 February, 25 March, 25 May, 2 October and 7 December. Four were held under a patent for which William Condon of Dublin paid the Crown fifteen shillings annually. The entry does not identify which four dates the patent covered or give numbers of animals traded. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rossdroit. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rossdroit — 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.