placenamesRoebuck
Reabóg
Early accounts preserve details of Roebuck’s working landscape and local curiosities beyond the castle’s succession of owners.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Reabóg · Irish · main form · validated name
- Roebuck · English · main form
Place & story
A farm among the ruins
Francis Elrington Ball’s history records Austin Cooper visiting Roebuck in 1781. Only a small part of the castle remained roofed, serving as a farmer’s storehouse; the farmer lived in a small house nearby. Ball also notes an eighteenth-century bleach yard and advertisements offering the castle farm as suitable accommodation for a dairyman. [2]
Volunteers and a disputed path
Ball records the Dublin Volunteers choosing Roebuck as a camping ground in 1784. Five years later, a dispute over closing the footpath between Milltown and Clonskeagh led to a duel near the castle. His account says the parties eventually reached an accommodation, although shots had already been exchanged. [2]
The walnut tree in 1837
Samuel Lewis recorded an unusual walnut tree adjoining the castle in 1837. It had grown from an old wall and enclosed a large stone within its trunk, lifting it more than four feet above the ground. His description preserves a nineteenth-century curiosity; it does not establish that the tree survives today. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Within
- Dublin
- Civil parish
- Taney
- Within
- Dundrum-Taney
- Within
- Pembroke West A
- Coordinates
- 53.30389, -6.23224
- Mapped area
- 3.16 km²
- Logainm ID
- 16634 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Roebuck. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- A History of the County Dublin, part II: Parish of Taney, Roebuck section (1903) · Francis Elrington Ball
- Roebuck, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.