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What is the difference between Roslea and Rosslea?

  • 01-10-2006 11:28AM
    #1
    Yorky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭


    Could anyone please explain the following in the County Fermanagh village:

    Roslea: Nationalist way of spelling

    Rosslea: Unionist way of spelling

    The official spelling is Rosslea so what is the significance of the extra 's' that Nationalists find so unacceptable?


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