Rossie, a plain oblong mansion, with a large old-fashioned garden and well-wooded policies, in Forgandenny parish, Perthshire, immediately W of Forgandenny village, and 3 ½ miles W of Bridge of Earn. The estate of Rossie Hill or Rossie Ochil, 4 ¼ miles due S, was purchased from Andrew Blair in 1583 by William Oliphant of Newtoun, whose descendant, Robert, in 1727 added part of the charter lands of Forgandenny; and the present proprietor, Thomas Truman Oliphant, Esq. (b. 1839; suc. 1872), holds 1800 acres in the shire, valued at £1742 per annum.—Ord. Sur., shs. 48, 40, 1868-67. See chap. xiv. of Thos. Hunter's Woods and Estates of Perthshire (Perth, 1883).

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)