Rosenallis


Rosenallis is a village in north County Laois, Ireland. It is in the foothills of the Slieve Bloom Mountains on the R422 Mountmellick to Birr road.
In 2002, the population of the village's catchment area was 440 persons - representing an 8.9% increase in population since 1996. The population of the surrounding electoral division increased to 469 by 2011.
Rosenallis is also important in the history of the Quaker movement, with William Edmundson, founder of the Quakers in Ireland, buried outside the village in the Friends graveyard. Published in 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described the area:
The village has two churches as well as a village primary school, community centre and small shops, the village has two pubs, Shellys and Pooles Tavern. The secondary level schools serving the area are Clonaslee and Mountmellick. Every year usually in July the village hosts the "Festival Of The Mountain" which is situated in the Festival Field just outside the village.
The River_Barrow rises in Glenbarrow which is in the parish of Rosenallis.
Rosenallis GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.
Rosenallis AFC is the local soccer club. It plays home games at its grounds "Johnsgrove".
In the Society of Friends graveyard just outside the village lies the remains of Ireland's heaviest man, Roger Byrne, who was said to have weighed 52 stone when he died in March 1804. This was listed in prior Guinness Book of Record but has more recently been omitted.