Rockchapel
| Rockchapel Irish: Séipéal na Carraige | |
| County Cork | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | R219159 |
| Location: | 52°16’60"N, 9°9’0"W |
| Data | |
| Local Government | |
| Dáil constituency: |
Cork North-West |
Rockchapel is a village in the north of County Cork, close to the border of counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick. It is in the Slieve Logher area, which spreads into the thee counties.
Much of the land close to the village is planted with coniferous trees, mainly of lodgepole pine and Sitka spruce. This was largely facilitated by financial funding from the national forestry company Coillte through its grant support scheme.
The village received its name from a rock here: during the days of the Penal Laws, when Roman Catholic religious services were banned, mass was said on a rock in a remote area.
About the village
The local Roman Catholic church, St Peter's, was built around 1830.[1]
Rockchapel has two pubs, one shop, a school, a community centre, church, funeral home and graveyard.
The waters of the River Feale rise some two and a half miles north-east of the village, between the townlands of Rockhill West, Rockhill East and Tooreenmacauliffe on the south-western slopes of Mullaghareirk Mountain.
Sport
- Gaelic sports: Rockchapel GAA
References
- ↑ "Saint Peter's Church, Rockchapel, County Cork". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20900401/saint-peters-church-tooreennagrena-rockchapel-co-cork. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
- Séipéal na Carraige / Rockchapel: Placenames Database of Ireland
