Rosegreen's community history is closely connected with the training of racehorses at Ballydoyle and a hall and field donated in the year of Nijinsky's Triple Crown.
Illustration, Rosegreen church
⊕Recorded locationRosegreen52.46682° N · 7.83090° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
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Faiche Ró· Irish · main form · validated name
Rosegreen· English · main form
Place & story
People & connections
Vincent O'Brien's Ballydoyle
Vincent O'Brien selected the Ballydoyle property in 1950, when it was a working farm. Rosegreen's community history dates the establishment of his stables there to 1951. Ballydoyle became a major local employer and a centre for training thoroughbred racehorses. Its own history records Vincent's British trainers' championships in 1966 and 1977, and notes that his son David also trained on its gallops during the 1980s. The establishment's development connected the village's farming surroundings with international racing and its owners, trainers and staff.[2][3]
The gift of Nijinsky Park
In 1970 Charles Engelhard and his wife Jane presented a hall and field to the Rosegreen community. The property was named Nijinsky Park after the colt trained by Vincent O'Brien for Engelhard. That year Nijinsky won the English Triple Crown. Local residents formed a committee to oversee the hall and field, raising money through card games, shows, auctions and other events. Trustees included the O'Briens and parish priest William Breen. The later development association continued the management of a gift that linked racing success with village facilities.[2]
Jerome Davin's Rosegreen childhood
Jerome Davin, later a commandant in the Third Tipperary Brigade, described his Rosegreen beginnings in a Bureau of Military History statement. Born at Rathsallagh House in 1896, he attended the local national school before continuing his education with the Patrician Brothers at Fethard. He then worked on the family farm. Davin recalled joining the Rosegreen Volunteer company when it formed in 1914. Its first captain was James O'Brien, a Galbally man farming at nearby Tullamaine, and the company initially numbered twenty-eight members.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Rosegreen — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Rosegreen, South Tipperary — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
201people · 2006
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Rosegreen, South Tipperary — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
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Rosegreen, South Tipperary
Published census settlement populations
171people · 2016
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