Hearth less than 20 shillings a year and those who paid neither church nor poor rates. Also exempt were charitable institutions such as schools and almshouses, and industrial hearths with the exception of smiths' forges and bakers' ovens. The returns were lodged with the Clerk of the Peace between 1662 and 1688. A revision of the Act in 1664 made the tax payable by all who had more than two chimneys. The tax was abolished by William III in 1689 and the last collection was for Lady Day of that year. It was abolished in Scotland in 1690. Hearth tax records
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"