The history of Costelloe
The gCaislé, Ismay's lodge, Manning's novel, the radio. 4 moments, in order.
- Ancient times
The gCaislé
A sept who lived between Casla and An Cheathrú Rua, from whom the Costelloe family here claims descent; the name may also mean the twisting creek.
- 1922 to 1925
Costelloe Lodge
The fishing lodge burned in the Civil War; Edwin Lutyens built the big house that replaced it in 1925, with gardens by Gertrude Jekyll, for J. Bruce Ismay, the White Star Line chairman condemned for taking a lifeboat seat when the Titanic sank.
- 1921, in fiction
The Wind Changes
Olivia Manning's novel of the independence fighters has the last leader of 1916 set to land at the pier at Costello.
- 1972
The radio
RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta has its headquarters in the village.
Where this comes from
Every paragraph above summarises a statement in Wikipedia, "Casla", licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, as it read on 2026-09-19. Follow it for the footnotes. Nothing has been added from memory.