Trabolgan_Holiday_Village

Trabolgan Holiday Village

Trabolgan Holiday Village

Holiday village in County Cork, Ireland

Trabolgan (Irish: Trá Bholgan, meaning 'strand of Bolgan') is a self catering holiday village on a 140-acre (0.57 km2) site which was a former country estate in the civil parish of Trabolgan, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.[1][2][3] The holiday camp was registered on 1 May 1984 (1984-05-01)[4] and officially opened on 29 June 1985 (1985-06-29).

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History

Roche family

Trabolgan House was the seat of the Roche dynasty from the middle of the seventeenth-century up until 1880, when the family was forced to sell the house and most of the Trabolgan Estate.[1][2][5][6] The head of the Roche family was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Fermoy in 1856, when Edmond Burke Roche was created the 1st Baron Fermoy.[1][2][5][6] Trabolgan House itself was largely rebuilt in the Georgian style circa 1780, with the house being significantly extended during the nineteenth-century.[2][3][6] Trabolgan House was demolished in the early 1980s.[2][3][6]

Pontin's Trabolgan

Trabolgan was first opened as a holiday camp in 1948 by Pontin's, which built over 100 chalets, a dance hall and an outdoor swimming pool. The development was initially successful at attracting British holiday-makers.[7]

Scoil na nÓg

Trabolgan was not successful in the longer term however, and it was converted into a boy's boarding school, Scoil na nÓg, operated by Gaedhealachas Teo from 1959 to 1973.[7]

Trabolgan Holiday Village

In 1975, the Trabolgan estate was purchased by a Dutch Coal and Metal Industry Pension Fund and a small holiday development consisting of 30 houses, bar and clubhouse was opened in 1980, catering mainly for the continental market. The decision to extend the village to include a Main Centre and a wide range of facilities was taken in 1983, and building was completed in 1985; the village was officially opened on 29 June 1985 (1985-06-29) by Michael McNulty, the Director General of Bord Fáilte, and W.L. Van Leeuwen, the Director of Trabolgan Homes.[7] The site changed hands several times, and was put up for sale in 2000[8] and purchased by Trevor Hemmings in 2002 to operate as Trabolgan Holiday Village.[9]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    'Trabolgan: A corker of a weekend' (Irish Independent, 22 August 2009). https://m.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/trabolgan-a-corker-of-a-weekend/26560870.doc
  2. [2]
    Lord Belmont in Northern Ireland: 1st Baron Fermoy. https://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2019/12/1st-baron-fermoy.doc?m=1
  3. [3]
    Archiseek: 1780s - Trabolgan, Whitegate, Co. Cork (This article erroneously says that the Roche family held the title 'Earl of Fermoy'; they actually held, and still hold, the title Baron Fermoy). https://www.archiseek.com/2022/1780s-trabolgan-whitegate-co-cork/
  4. [4]
    "Trabolgan Holiday Centre Ltd | Irish Legal & Business Services Company & Director Check". www.solocheck.ie. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  5. [5]
    Landed Estates: Roche (Trabolgan). https://landedestates.ie/estate/2694
  6. [6]
    House Histree: Trabolgan. https://househistree.com/houses/trabolgan
  7. [7]
    "History of Trabolgan". trabolgan.com.
  8. [8]
    Fagan, Jack (18 October 2000). "Trabolgan complex put on the market with £20m-plus price tag". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  9. [9]
    Troy, Catherine (4 May 2004). "Leisure-savvy Briton plotting a 'sequel' to Trabolgan's fairytale". Irish Independent. Retrieved 7 May 2017.

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