Roche Mount

Roche Mount is an estate in , . Roche Mount is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Trabolgan Holiday Village and Roche’s Point Lighthouse.

Resort
Trabolgan is a self catering holiday village on a 140-acre site which was a former country estate in the civil parish of Trabolgan, , . The holiday camp was registered on 1 May 1984 and officially opened on 29 June 1985.

Lighthouse
Roche's Point Lighthouse is situated at the entrance to , . A lighthouse was first established on 4 June 1817 to guide ships into Cork Harbour. is situated 2½ km west of Roche Mount.

Power station
is a gas-fired power station located near the entrance of in , . It was built at this location in order to use gas that had been discovered at the nearby Kinsale Head gas field, from which gas was extracted from 1978 until its depletion in 2020. is situated 4 km north of Roche Mount.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Whitegate and Crosshaven.

Village
is a small village in East Cork on the eastern shore of in , . It lies within the townlands of Ballincarroonig and Corkbeg. is situated 3 km north of Roche Mount.

is a coastal village in , with a population of 3300 in 2022. It's at the point where the River Owenabue flows into Cork Harbour, and its Irish name is Bun an Tabhairne, "mouth of the river Sabhrann".

is a port in Cork Harbour, , in southwest Ireland. It's pronounced "cove" and that's what it means, a sheltered harbour. It's part of the commuter belt for city and in 2022 had a population of 14,000.

Roche Mount

Latitude
51.8° or 51° 48′ north
Longitude
-8.21667° or 8° 13′ west
Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)
Open location code
9C3HRQ2M+28
Geo­Names ID
2961773
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