ROSINAN, a parish, in the barony of KNOCKTOPHER,
county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 5
miles (N. N. W.) from Waterford, on the road to Kilkenny;
containing 1130 inhabitants, and comprising 5105½
statute acres. It is in the diocese of Ossory; the rectory
is appropriate to the vicars choral of the cathedral of
St. Canice, Kilkenny, and the vicarage forms part of the
union of Kilbeacon. The tithes amount to £207, of
which £138 is payable to the vicars choral, and the remainder
to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions it forms
part of the union or district of Kilrnacow.