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Rosconnell (Laois portion)

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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, if 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. 6½. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Ballyragget. About 30 children are educated in a private school.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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