{{short description|Village in County Cork, Ireland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Rostellan | native_name = {{Native name|ga|Ros Tialláin|paren=omit}} | native_name_lang = gai | settlement_type = Civil parish | image_skyline = Siddons' Tower in Rostellan, County Cork, Ireland.jpg | image_caption = Siddons Tower (an 18th century folly built on Rostellan Castle demesne) is now a ruin | imagesize = 200px | image_map = | map_caption = | 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 | population_as_of = | population_footnotes = | population_total = | coordinates = {{coord|51|50|40|N|08|11|18|W|display=inline,title|region:IE_type:city}} | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | blank_name = Irish grid reference | blank_info = {{iem4ibx|W873664}} | footnotes = }} '''Rostellan''' ({{Irish place name|Ros Tialláin}}) is a civil parish, townland and village in the historical Barony of Imokilly, County Cork, Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/678.aspx | publisher = Irish Placenames Database | website = logainm.ie | title = Ros Tialláin / Rostellan (Civil Parish) | accessdate = 20 December 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/12519.aspx | publisher = Irish Placenames Database | website = logainm.ie | title = Ros Tialláin / Rostellan (Townland) | accessdate = 20 December 2020 }}</ref> An electoral division of the same name forms part of the Cork East Dáil constituency.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2017/act/39/schedule/enacted/en/html | publisher = Irish Statute Book | title = Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 | date = 2017 | accessdate = 20 December 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.townlands.ie/cork/rostellan2/ | website = townlands.ie | title =Rostellan Electoral Division, Co. Cork | accessdate = 20 December 2020 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2011/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST&Geog_Code=18060 | publisher = Central Statistics Office | work = Census 2011 | title = Settlement Aghada-Farsid-Rostellan (CSO Area Code ST 18060) | date = April 2011 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20211024041627/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2011/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST&Geog_Code=18060 | archivedate = 24 October 2021 }}</ref>
==Promontory== thumb|Farmland near Rostellan Wood Rostellan Wood, a forestry amenity managed by Coillte, lies on Rostellan promontory.<ref name="coillte">{{cite web|url = https://www.coillte.ie/site/rostellan/ | publisher = Coillte | title = Rostellan | accessdate = 20 December 2020 }}</ref> Rostellan Wood contains the ruins of an 18th-century folly and the remains of a megalithic portal tomb.<ref name="dolmen">{{cite web|url = https://www.ringofcork.ie/listings/rostellan-dolmen/ | publisher = | website = ringofcork.ie | title = Rostellan Dolmen | accessdate = 20 December 2020 }}</ref><ref name="NIAHtower">{{cite web|url = https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20908830/siddons-tower-rostellan-county-cork | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | website= buildingsofireland.ie | title = Siddon's Tower, Rostellan, County Cork | accessdate = 20 December 2020 }}</ref> 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).<ref name="dolmen"/><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.irishstones.org/place.aspx?p=648 | website = irishstones.org | title = Rostellan Portal Tomb | accessdate = 21 December 2020 }}</ref> The folly, "Siddons Tower", was built in the 1770s by Murrough O'Brien, 1st Marquess of Thomond on the grounds of his estate.<ref>{{cite book | title = Burke's Guide to Country Houses: Volume 1 – Ireland | last = Bence-Jones | first = Mark | publisher = Burke's | page = 248 | date = 1978 | isbn = 9780850110265 | quote = the 1st Marquess built a tower in honour of Mrs [Sarah] Siddons, whom he entertained here}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book |title = The Little Book of Cork Harbour | first = Kieran | last = McCarthy | publisher = History Press | date = 2019 | isbn = 9780750989602 | quote = The Earl of Inchiquin greatly admired her [Sarah Siddons] and built a tower in her honour in his grounds }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.irishstones.org/place.aspx?p=999 | website = irishstones.org | title = Siddon's Tower, Rostellan Demesne | accessdate = 21 December 2020 }}</ref>
Originally associated with the FitzGerald family, the O'Brien (Inchiquin) estate at Rostellan spanned the entire townland, and its manor house was Rostellan Castle.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Rostellan Castle and its owners | url = https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1936/b1936-036.pdf | author = Q., J.C. | journal = Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society | series = 2 | volume = XLI | pages = 109–111 | date = 1936 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book | chapter = Rostellan | chapter-url = https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/R/Rostellan-Imokilly-Cork.php | last = Lewis | first = Samuel | title = Topographical Dictionary of Ireland | date = 1837 }}</ref> While some ruined and standing structures of the estate remain (including a large set of gates in Rostellan village),<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20908841/knockanemorney-rostellan-co-cork | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | website = buildingsofireland.ie | title = Knockanemorney, Rostellan, County Cork | accessdate = 21 December 2020 }}</ref> Rostellan Castle itself was demolished in 1944.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=3617 | publisher = NUI Galway | work = Landed Estates Database | title = Rostellan | accessdate = 20 December 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork | place = Dublin | publisher = Stationery Office | date = 1994 | quote = 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}}</ref>
Aghada GAA club, founded in 1885, has its main sports ground on Rostellan promontory.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.aghadagaa.com/about | website = aghadagaa.com | title = About Aghada GAA Club | accessdate = 21 December 2020 }}</ref>
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Category:Townlands of County Cork Category:Civil parishes of County Cork