Baile an Róistigh

Rochestown is first documented in 1385 as "Rochestoun" in the Pipe Roll of Cloyne, establishing its identity as an Anglo-Norman settlement deriving from the de Róiste (Roche) family. The name persisted through subsequent centuries, appearing in the Down Survey of 1656 as "Rochtowne." The area remained predominantly rural through the medieval and early modern periods, its landscape characterized...