Hearth tax significant proportion of householders were not liable to pay at all. The hearth tax was much resented because it often entailed inspection of the interior of dwellings by the sub-collectors and petty constables, who had legal authority to enter every property to check on the number of hearths. Some people stopped up their chimneys so that the tax was not due on them, but where this was discovered by the assessors the tax was doubled. On 31 July 1684, a fire in Churchill, Oxfordshire, destroyed 20 houses and many other buildings, and killed four people. It was apparently caused by
Rosehill, Templeport the townland as part of "Kilcrooghan" (the other part was Gortnaleck). The 1665 Down Survey map depicts it as part of "Killcrachan". An 1809 map of ecclesiastical lands in Templeport depicts it as "Bellacrohaw", (from Irish: "Bél Átha Cruachán", meaning "The Entrance to the Ford of the Round Hill") which was probably its old Irish name before it was changed to Rosehill in the 19th century. The 1652 Commonwealth Survey lists the proprietor of Killecrooghan as "John Boyd". In the Hearth Money Rolls of 1662 there were two people paying the Hearth Tax in "Killecrohean- John Bride and Robert Grige"