Hearth tax a baker who, to avoid chimney tax, had knocked through the wall from her oven to her neighbour's chimney. After the Glorious Revolution, the hearth tax was repealed by the newly empowered English Parliament and agreed to by the newly installed William III and Mary II in 1689, as "not only a great oppression to the poorer sort, but a badge of slavery upon the whole people, exposing every man’s house to be entered into, and searched at pleasure, by persons unknown to him." At the end of the Glorious Revolution in 1688, William III and Mary II also agreed
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"