placenamesRock
An Charraig
Rock’s pump, telephone kiosk and Water Carrier sculpture preserve memories of everyday life, while its Gaelic club carries the village emblem on its crest.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Charraig · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rock · English · main form
Place & story
A kiosk beside the village pump
The green on Rockdale Road brings together several generations of village street furniture. Its cast-iron telephone kiosk is a K6, the type designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935. A plate identifies the maker as Lion Foundry of Kirkintilloch. The heritage survey considers installation after 1955 likely because of the removable panel carrying its crown motif. The kiosk stands near the listed water pump, with the Water Carrier sculpture added in 2015. Together they mark changing ways of obtaining water, exchanging news and communicating beyond the village. [2]
Ellen Beck and village life
Local writer Ellen Beck described Rock’s late nineteenth-century life, including the repeated chore of carrying water. Rock Historical Society republished her work as The Dear Green Country. Her writing also inspired community performance: a programme associated with the Water Carrier sculpture proposed dramatizing six scenes from A Day in the Life of a Tyrone Village with a cast of forty villagers, period clothing and traditional implements. The sculpture’s subject connects that literary memory with the physical work once associated with the village pump. [3]
The pump on the club crest
Rock St Patrick’s dates its formation to 1916. The village pump appears at the centre of the club crest, linking its sporting identity with a familiar public landmark. New grounds beside Tullyodonnell chapel and the primary school were developed from 1995 and officially opened on 24 May 1998. In 2002, the footballers won their league and reached senior status for the first time. Centenary celebrations in 2016 included a school jersey-design competition, youth games and a parade from the village to Mass at Tullyodonnell. [4] [5] [6]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Upper
- Civil parish
- Desertcreat
- Within
- Oughterard
- Coordinates
- 54.59062, -6.83966 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 135109 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rock. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Telephone kiosk, Rockdale Road: HB09/05/035 · Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division
- Mystery statue revealed and turf-footing competition in Rock village outside Cookstown · Northern Ireland World
- The Club · Rock St Patrick’s GFC
- Club history: 2000 onwards · Rock St Patrick’s GFC
- Rock St Patrick’s Centenary celebrations, 18 May 2016 · Tyrone GAA
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2010-04-19. How this page was prepared.