Rosslea is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.2393°, -7.1740°.

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Rosslea

Also known as: Ros Liath

Rosslea in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Rosslea is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Rosslea, locally Roslea (from Irish Ros Liath, meaning 'grey wood or wooded height'), is a small village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, near the border with County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. It stands on the Finn River, amid a number of small natural lakes. Spring Grove Forest, also known as Roslea Forest, is nearby. In the 2021 Census, the village had a population of 482 people.

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There were several incidents in the Roslea area during the Anglo-Irish War. On 21 February 1921, a group of Special Constables and Ulster Volunteers burned ten Irish nationalists' homes and a priest's house in Roslea as revenge for the shooting of a Special Constable. A UVF member mistakenly shot and killed himself during the attacks. On the night of 21 March, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacked the homes of up to sixteen Special Constables in the Roslea district, killing three and wounding others. IRA volunteers were also wounded and one was captured. Rosslea was one of several Catholic border villages in County Fermanagh that would have been transferred to the Irish Free State had…

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