Trabolgan Holiday Village
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| Trabolgan Holiday Village | |
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 Panorama of the amenities centre at Trabolgan Holiday Village | |
  Trabolgan Holiday Village | |
| Location | Whitegate, Midleton, County Cork |
| Coordinates | 51°47′55″N 8°14′09″W / 51.798691°N 8.235810°W |
| Subsequent names | Trabolgan |
| Campus size | 140 acres (0.57 km2) |
| Residences | 344 |
| Restaurants | 2 |
| Facilities | Indoor sports complex, an indoor swimming pool |
| Established | 29 June 1985 |
| Website | www |
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] The holiday camp was registered on 1 May 1984[3] and officially opened on 29 June 1985.
History
[edit]Roche family
[edit]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][4][5] 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][4][5] Trabolgan House itself was largely rebuilt in the Georgian style circa 1780, with the house being significantly extended during the nineteenth-century.[2][5] Trabolgan House was demolished in the early 1980s.[6][2][5]
Pontin's Trabolgan
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c '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.html
- ^ a b c 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/
- ^ "Trabolgan Holiday Centre Ltd | Irish Legal & Business Services Company & Director Check". www.solocheck.ie. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- ^ a b Landed Estates: Roche (Trabolgan). https://landedestates.ie/estate/2694
- ^ a b c d House Histree: Trabolgan. https://househistree.com/houses/trabolgan
- ^ Lord Belmont in Northern Ireland: 1st Baron Fermoy. https://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2019/12/1st-baron-fermoy.html?m=1
- ^ a b c "History of Trabolgan". trabolgan.com.
- ^ Fagan, Jack (18 October 2000). "Trabolgan complex put on the market with £20m-plus price tag". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ^ Troy, Catherine (4 May 2004). "Leisure-savvy Briton plotting a 'sequel' to Trabolgan's fairytale". Irish Independent. Retrieved 7 May 2017.