Rockchapel () is a village in north
County Cork
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in
Ireland
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. It is located near the border of counties Cork,
Kerry
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and
Limerick
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. Rockchapel is within the
Dáil constituency of
Cork North-West.
Much of the land close to the village is planted with coniferous trees, mainly of
lodgepole pine
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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
Rockchapel GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the village of Rockchapel in the North West of County Cork, Ireland which forms part of the parish of Rockchapel and Meelin. The village is located close to border with County Kerry ...
which fields
Gaelic football teams in
Duhallow division competitions.
The local church is dedicated to
Saint Peter
) (Simeon, Simon)
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Bethsaida, Gaulanitis, Syria, Roman Empire
, death_date = Between AD 64–68
, death_place = probably Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire
, parents = John (or Jonah; Jona)
, occupat ...
and was built . Rockchapel forms half a parish in the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne
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, the other half of the parish being
Meelin.
The village got its name from the
penal times when
Catholic
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religious services were banned. Mass was said on a rock in a remote area.
Rockchapel has two pubs, one shop, a community centre, church, funeral home and graveyard. As of 2018, the local
national (primary) school had 41 pupils enrolled.
The headwaters of the
River Feale
Beach seine fishing for salmon in River Feale near by town Ballybunion, year 1975.
The River Feale (''An Fhéil'' or ''Abhainn na Féile'' in Irish) rises near Rockchapel in the Mullaghareirk Mountains of County Cork in the southwest of Irel ...
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.
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See also
*
List of towns and villages in Ireland
References
Towns and villages in County Cork
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