Rockchapel
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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. 1830Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Rockchapel has two pubs, one shop, a community centre, a church, a funeral home and a graveyard.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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]
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