Rossorry parish

CountyFermanagh
Location

Fermanagh

Baronies: Clanawley, Magheraboy

Diocese: Clogher

Poor law union: Enniskillen

Poor law union: Armagh

County districts: Enniskillen (Urban), Enniskillen No. 1

Place: Enniskillen

Graveyards

Rossorry CI

Rossorry Old (inscriptions in Clogher Record, vol. 19, no. 2/3 (2007/08))

Inscriptions from both burial grounds published by David R. Elliott, Kinfolk Finders

Church of Ireland RecordsRossory: baptisms, 1796-97 and 1799-1956; marriages, 1799-1950; burials, 1799­1923 (MIC1/22; CR1/45)
Roman Catholic RecordsEnniskillen: baptisms, 1838-81; marriages, 1817-80 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0308) 
Presbyterian Records 
Methodist Records 
Other Church Records 
Tithe RecordsTithe applotment book, 1826 (FIN/5/A/240A-B)
Vestry recordsVestry minutes, 1763–1870, including payments to the poor of the parish in 1764 (MIC1/22/1)
Landed estates

Clogher bishopric estate

Enniskillen estate

Huntingdon estate

School Records

Jones’ Memorial PE: male and female registers, 1907–50 (SCH/1131)

Crown Hall PE: male register, 1939–56; female register, 1937–55 (SCH/1132)

Local government 
Law and order 
Business records 
Valuation records

Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/45, /427A-B

Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/4/18, /24B

Board of Guardians

Enniskillen Union records include: minute books, 1840–1948; dispensary committee minute books: Enniskillen, 1852–99, Tempo, 1852–99; outdoor relief order books, 1899–1905; outdoor relief registers, 1848–1948 (including indexes, 1847–8 and 1865–99, prepared by D.R. Elliott); salaries book, 1893–1900; indoor registers, 1845–1949; medical relief registers: Tempo, 1887–1948, Holywell no. 1, 1899–1925, Holywell no. 2, 1906–17; records of births, 1846–1948; records of deaths, 1845–54, 1899–1922; indexed minute books of register of births, 1880–1948; vaccination registers: Ely, 1869–1945, Enniskillen, 1877–1913, Holywell, 1883–1948, Lisbellaw, 1864–1921, Tempo, 1864–97; rate book, 1876 (BG/14) 

See also Margaret Quinn, ‘Enniskillen Poor Law Union (1840–49)’, Clogher Record, vol. 7, no. 3 (1971/72) and Desmond McCabe and Cormac Ó Gráda, ‘“Better off thrown behind a ditch”: Enniskillen workhouse during the Great Famine’ in Michael De Nie and Seán Farrell (eds), Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland: Essays in Honour of James S. Donnelly, Jr (2010)

Famine Relief 
Family papers 
19thC Census 
Census 
Census subsRelC (Protestants and Catholics), FL
Societies, etc 
Printed Sources 
PublicationsM. Rogers, A Short History of Rossory Parish (n.d.)
Other sources 
Ordnance Survey MemoirsOSM, County Fermanagh II (vol. 14)
NotesThe name of this parish is also spelled Rossory.