placenamesRossin
Rossin’s identity crosses administrative boundaries, linking a conspicuous industrial ruin with the shared institutions of a rural community.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Rossin · English · main form
Place & story
A community across boundaries
Bryn Coldrick’s study of Rossin treats it as a community extending across three townlands and two parishes. Its shop, pub, chapel, school and flour mill gave residents a shared centre without a separate administrative boundary. The publisher’s account of his research traces this settlement’s growth in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its subsequent decline. [2]
The mill complex
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates the former mill in Monknewtown approximately to 1820. Its interconnected stone blocks rise through four and five storeys. Red-brick window dressings contrast with cut limestone details elsewhere in the complex, while a brick chimney marks the recessed central range. The former mill house and outbuildings preserve the setting of a substantial industrial enterprise. [3]
Rossin Rovers and its first pitch
In a 2024 interview, Noel Walsh and Frank Taaffe recalled establishing Rossin Rovers in 1984 after local players competed at Laytown. Farmer Paddy Halpin supplied a field for their pitch. Walsh remembered volunteers mowing the playing area themselves. The club’s later home ground was named Frank Taaffe Park in 2019 in recognition of Taaffe’s contribution. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Slane Upper
- Civil parish
- Monknewtown
- Within
- Monknewtown
- Coordinates
- 53.71608, -6.46624
- Logainm ID
- 106107 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rossin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rossin, County Meath: An Unofficial Place, publisher’s account of Bryn Coldrick’s 2002 study · Four Courts Press
- Monknewtown mill, NIAH14401901 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Rossin Rovers and their part in a sporting revolution, 27 February 2024 · Jimmy Geoghegan, Meath Chronicle; interviews with Noel Walsh and Frank Taaffe
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-06-02. How this page was prepared.