•  Rosconnell, County Laoighis

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In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Rosconnell like this:

ROSCONNELL, a parish, partly in the barony of FASSADINING, county of KILKENNY, but chiefly in that of UPPER OSSORY, QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 1 ¾ mile (S. by W.) from Ballynakill, on the road to Durrow; containing 795 inhabitants, and comprising 1942 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Ossory, forming part of the union of Attanagh: the tithes amount to £143. 1. 6 ½. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Ballyragget. About 30 children are educated in a private school.

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