placenamesRossorry
Lewis recorded a small charitable fund alongside the parish’s farming and quarrying.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Rossorry · English · main form
Place & story
Income from Mrs Noble’s bequest
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Rossorry records a £50 bequest from Mrs Noble. Its interest was divided annually among twelve aged women. The £50 was the capital sum supporting the charity, rather than an annual payment to each recipient. [2]
Limestone for fields and roads
Lewis described much of the parish’s land as meadow and pasture, with a smaller cultivated portion. Limestone was quarried for agricultural use and for road repairs. These activities formed part of the wider rural parish beside Lough Erne, which also included some suburbs of Enniskillen. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Magheraboy
- Barony
- Clanawley
- Coordinates
- 54.31714, -7.64653 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 31.36 km²
- Logainm ID
- 58925 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rossorry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rossory: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2014-11-21. How this page was prepared.