Rochestown

[5][6] In the 19th century, the Capuchin Order opened a friary on the Rochestown-Monkstown road, which was developed as a secondary school, and is now more commonly known as St. Francis College Rochestown.

[10] In the 1920s, during the Free State offensive of the Irish Civil War, there were clashes around Rochestown as Anti-Treaty irregulars attempted to hold the village from advancing Pro-Treaty National Army troops.

[11] This engagement, sometimes referred to as the "Battle of Rochestown",[12][13] occurred as Emmet Dalton's National Army troops landed in numbers (with armoured car and field artillery support) at Passage West port, and advanced towards Cork city.

[14] Anti-Treaty troops, including reinforcements fresh from the Battle of Kilmallock, demolished the bridge and fortified several buildings in Rochestown, before retiring to defensive positions in Old Court Woods and Belmonte Hill.

The area is served by two schools, Scoil Phádraig Naofa (primary) which opened in 2008,[21] and St. Francis College Rochestown (secondary) which dates to 1884.