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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
In 1868, the parish of Rossory contained the following places:"ROSSORY, a parish in the baronies of Clanawly and Magheraboy, county Fermanagh, province of Ulster, Ireland, containing part of the outskirts of Enniskillen, its post town. The surface extends along the shore of Lough Erne, and is traversed by the roads from Enniskillen to Sligo and Ballyshannon. The soil is mostly good. The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Clogher, value £298, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is an old building. The parish is united to Enniskillen in the Roman Catholic division. The royal endowed school of Enniskillen is within the parish, and there are several parish schools. In this parish was Lisgoole Abbey, founded in 1106, by MacNoellus Mackenleff, on the site of a previous religious establishment of earlier antiquity. It was rebuilt after the Dissolution, when the site was granted to Sir John Davis."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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