| 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. The holiday camp was registered on 1 May 1984[1] and officially opened on 29 June 1985.
History
Pontin's Trabolgan
Trabolgan first opened in 1948 by British holiday camp company 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.[2]
Scoil na nÓg
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.[2]
Trabolgan Holiday Village
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 Failte and W.L Van Leeuwen, the Director of Trabolgan Homes.[2] The site changed hands several times, and was put up for sale in 2000[3] and purchased by Trevor Hemmings in 2002 to operate as Trabolgan Holiday Village.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "Trabolgan Holiday Centre Ltd | Irish Legal & Business Services Company & Director Check". www.solocheck.ie. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- 1 2 3 "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.