Rockchapel (Irish: Séipéal na Carraige, meaning 'chapel of the rocks') is a village in north County Cork in Ireland.[1] It is located near the border of counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick. Rockchapel is within the Dáil constituency of Cork North-West.
Rockchapel
Séipéal na Carraige | |
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Village | |
  Rockchapel Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°17′21″N 09°08′37″W / 52.28917°N 9.14361°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Cork |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | R219159 |
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 local GAA club is Rockchapel GAA which fields Gaelic football teams in Duhallow division competitions.[2]
The local church is dedicated to Saint Peter and was built c. 1830.[3] Rockchapel forms half a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, the other half of the parish being Meelin.[4]
The village got its name from the penal times when Catholic religious services were banned. Mass was said on a rock in a remote area.[citation needed]
Rockchapel has two pubs, one shop, a community centre, church, funeral home and graveyard.[citation needed] As of 2018, the local national (primary) school had 41 pupils enrolled.[5]
The headwaters of the River Feale rise approximately 4.3 km northeast of the village between the townlands of Rockhill West, Rockhill East and Tooreenmacauliffe on the southwestern slopes of Mullaghareirk mountain.[6]
See also
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edit- ^ "Rockchapel / Séipéal na Carraige". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
- ^ "Relieved Rockchapel let off by Lyre". corkman.ie. The Corkman. 2 July 2009. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011.
- ^ "Saint Peter's Church, Rockchapel, County Cork". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
- ^ "Parish: Rockchapel and Meelin". cloynediocese.ie. Cloyne Diocese. Archived from the original on 3 December 2019.
- ^ "Department of Education and Skills - Curriculum Evaluation - Rockchapel NS" (PDF). education.ie. Department of Education. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
- ^ "Google Maps coordinates 52.3184, -9.1024". Google Maps. 29 January 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2021. [better source needed]
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