Rostellan Explained

Rostellan
Native Name Lang:gai
Settlement Type:Civil parish
Pushpin Map:Ireland
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Ireland
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Ireland
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Munster
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:County Cork
Coordinates:51.8444°N -8.1883°W
Blank Name:Irish grid reference

Rostellan is a civil parish, townland and village in the historical Barony of Imokilly, County Cork, Ireland.[1] [2] An electoral division of the same name forms part of the Cork East Dáil constituency.[3] [4] For census purposes, the village of Rostellan is combined with the neighbouring villages of Farsid and Aghada. As of the 2011 census, the combined settlement of Aghada-Farsid-Rostellan had a population of 1,015 people.[5]

Promontory

Rostellan Wood, a forestry amenity managed by Coillte, lies on Rostellan promontory.[6] Rostellan Wood contains the ruins of an 18th-century folly and the remains of a megalithic portal tomb.[7] [8] This portal tomb, known as Rostellan Dolmen, stands in a tidal section of Saleen Creek, and comprises a large capstone and three upright stones (with two of the uprights acting as supporting orthostats to the capstone).[7] [9] The folly, "Siddons Tower", was built in the 1770s by Murrough O'Brien, 1st Marquess of Thomond on the grounds of his estate.[10] O'Brien, then 5th Earl of Inchiquin, so "greatly admired" the Welsh-born English actress Sarah Siddons (who reputedly visited Rostellan) that he built and named the tower in her honour on the Rostellan Castle demesne.[11] [12]

Originally associated with the FitzGerald family, the O'Brien (Inchiquin) estate at Rostellan spanned the entire townland, and its manor house was Rostellan Castle.[13] In A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, published by Samuel Lewis in 1837, Rostellan Castle is described as an "elegant mansion", with its "highly cultivated and extensive demesne" spanning one-third of the parish.[14] While some ruined and standing structures of the estate remain (including a large set of gates in Rostellan village),[15] Rostellan Castle itself was demolished in 1944.[16] [17]

Aghada GAA club, founded in 1885, has its main sports ground on Rostellan promontory.[18]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ros Tialláin / Rostellan (Civil Parish) . Irish Placenames Database . logainm.ie . 20 December 2020 .
  2. Web site: Ros Tialláin / Rostellan (Townland) . Irish Placenames Database . logainm.ie . 20 December 2020 .
  3. Web site: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 . Irish Statute Book . 2017 . 20 December 2020 .
  4. Web site: Rostellan Electoral Division, Co. Cork . townlands.ie . 20 December 2020 .
  5. Web site: Settlement Aghada-Farsid-Rostellan (CSO Area Code ST 18060) . Central Statistics Office . Census 2011 . April 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211024041627/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2011/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST&Geog_Code=18060 . 24 October 2021 .
  6. Web site: Rostellan . Coillte . 20 December 2020 .
  7. Web site: Rostellan Dolmen . ringofcork.ie . 20 December 2020 .
  8. Web site: Siddon's Tower, Rostellan, County Cork . National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . buildingsofireland.ie . 20 December 2020 .
  9. Web site: Rostellan Portal Tomb . irishstones.org . 21 December 2020 .
  10. Book: Bence-Jones, Mark . Burke's Guide to Country Houses: Volume 1 – Ireland . Burke's . 248 . 1978 . 9780850110265 . the 1st Marquess built a tower in honour of Mrs [Sarah] Siddons, whom he entertained here.
  11. Book: McCarthy, Kieran . The Little Book of Cork Harbour . History Press . 2019 . 9780750989602 . The Earl of Inchiquin greatly admired her [Sarah Siddons] and built a tower in her honour in his grounds .
  12. Web site: Siddon's Tower, Rostellan Demesne . irishstones.org . 21 December 2020 .
  13. Rostellan Castle and its owners . Q., J.C. . Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society . 2 . XLI . 109–111 . 1936 .
  14. Book: Lewis, Samuel . Rostellan . https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/R/Rostellan-Imokilly-Cork.php . Topographical Dictionary of Ireland . 1837 .
  15. Web site: Knockanemorney, Rostellan, County Cork . National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . buildingsofireland.ie . 21 December 2020 .
  16. Web site: Rostellan . NUI Galway . Landed Estates Database . 20 December 2020 .
  17. Book: Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork . Dublin . Stationery Office . 1994 . CO088-024---- [..] Castle [..] Townland: Rostellan [..] No visible surface trace of Fitzgerald Castle, which was rebuilt as a large house "some time ante 1750, probably by the 4th Earl of Inchiquin" (Bence-Jones 1978, 248). The house was demolished in 1944.
  18. Web site: About Aghada GAA Club . aghadagaa.com . 21 December 2020 .

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