Editing Mitchelstown

{{short description|Town in County Cork, Ireland}}
{{For|the place in Victoria, Australia|Mitchellstown}}
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{{Historical populations
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|1821|3773
|1831|3545
|1841|4181
|1851|3084
|1861|2922
|1871|2743
|1881|2467
|1891|2312
|1901|2146
|1911|2268
|1926|2146
|1936|1902
|1946|2054
|1951|2148
|1956|2674
|1961|2655
|1966|2617
|1971|2783
|1981|3106
|1986|3210
|1991|3090
|1996|3123
|2002|3300
|2006|3365
|2011|3677
|2016|3740
|2022|3744
| footnote=<ref>[http://www.cso.ie/census Census for post 1821 figures.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920090814/http://cso.ie/census |date=20 September 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.histpop.org |title=Histpop – The Online Historical Population Reports Website |website=histpop.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ |archive-date=7 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |title=NISRA – Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (c) 2015 |publisher=nisranew.nisra.gov.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census/ |archive-date=17 February 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book
| last=Lee|first=JJ| author-link =J. J. Lee (historian)|editor-last=Goldstrom|editor-first=J. M.|editor2-last=Clarkson
| editor2-first=L. A.|title=Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell
| year=1981|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford, England
| chapter=On the accuracy of the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Pre-famine]] Irish censuses}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last = Mokyr | first = Joel
| author-link = Joel Mokyr | last2 = O Grada | first2 = Cormac
| author2-link = Cormac Ó Gráda | title = New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850 | journal = The Economic History Review | volume = 37 | issue = 4
| pages = 473–488 | date = November 1984
| url = http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121204160709/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2012-12-04 | doi = 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x
| hdl = 10197/1406 | hdl-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=49D3A0AA-C500-4AD4-AA78-B02E4646BA48 | publisher = Central Statistics Office | title = Census 2016 – Small Area Population Statistics (SAPMAP Area) – Settlements – Mitchelstown | work = Census 2016 | access-date = 19 August 2018 | archive-date = 19 August 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180819182322/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=49D3A0AA-C500-4AD4-AA78-B02E4646BA48 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="cso2022"/>
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'''Mitchelstown''' ({{Irish place name|Baile Mhistéala}})<ref name=logainm>{{cite web | url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/1414051 | title = Baile Mhistéala/Mitchelstown | publisher = [[Placenames Database of Ireland]] | website = logainm.ie | access-date = 28 November 2021}}</ref> is a town in the north of [[County Cork]], [[Ireland]] with a population of over 3,740.<ref name="cso2022"/> It is situated in the valley to the south of the [[Galtee Mountains]]. Mitchelstown is 13&nbsp;km south-west of the [[Mitchelstown Cave]], 53&nbsp;km north of [[Cork (city)|Cork City]], 56&nbsp;km south-east of [[Limerick|Limerick City]] and 15&nbsp;km north of [[Fermoy]]. The town is close to the [[M8 motorway (Ireland)|M8 motorway]] which links [[Cork (city)|Cork]] and [[Dublin]].

Mitchelstown has been described as one of the "finest Georgian planned towns" in Ireland.<ref>{{cite web| last = Barker | first = Tommy |url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/arid-30846530.html | title = Georgian home fit for a king in Mitchelstown | work = Irish Examiner | date = 2 June 2018 | accessdate = 5 December 2024}}</ref> The River Gradoge runs by the town into the [[River Funshion]], which in turn is a tributary of the [[Munster Blackwater|River Blackwater]]. Mitchelstown is within the [[Dáil constituency]] of [[Cork East (Dáil constituency)|Cork East]].{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

==Name==
Prior to the 12th century [[Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland]], the area around Mitchelstown was known as "Caoille", a territory bounded by the Kilworth Mountains to the south and the Galtee Mountains to the north. It was occupied by a people known as the ''Fir Muighe'' – the "men of the plain".<ref>{{cite book | editor = Patrick Power | title = Crichad an Chaoilli being the Topography of ancient Fermoy | place = Cork | publisher = Cork University Press | date = 1932 | page = 56}} {{No ISBN}}</ref>

The name of Mitchelstown originates from the [[Anglo-Normans|Anglo-Norman]] family called ''de St Michel'' who founded a settlement close to the site of the present town in the 13th century.<ref name="booklet">{{cite web|url = https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-04/mitchelstown-pdf.pdf | publisher = Cork County Council | title = Mitchelstown – Historic Town | website = corkcoco.ie | accessdate = 3 April 2024 }}</ref>  Their family name was well attested among Anglo-Normans in this area of Munster.<ref name="logainmMitchelstownTownland">{{Cite web |title=Baile Mhistéala/Mitchelstown |url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/12869 |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=logainm.ie |language=en}}</ref>  (A reference in 1288 to a Geoffrey ''Michel'' in the 'vill of Michel', appears to refer to Mitchelstown townland in County Limerick.)<ref name="logainmMitchelstownTownland"/> Today's Mitchelstown and ''Baile Mhistéala'' names evolved from several varied spellings, a number of which are listed in the [[Placenames Database of Ireland]]. The database records 1618 as the earliest instance of today's standard English version.<ref name="logainmMitchelstownTownland"/>

==History==
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Before the development of Mitchelstown, a 7th-century settlement was established in the nearby townland of Brigown.<ref name="booklet"/> Brigown ([[Irish language|Irish]]: ''Brí Ghabhann'', meaning "hill of the smiths")<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/12851 | website  =logainm.ie | title = Brí Ghabhann / Brigown (Townland) }}</ref> was founded by a [[monk]] named Fionnchú (Findchú in Old Irish), now popularly known as Saint Fanahan.<ref name="booklet"/><ref name="logainmFionnchu"/> On the eastern side of the town is a holy well associated with the saint that is traditionally visited on 25 November, his annual [[pattern day]].<ref name="logainmFionnchu">{{Cite web |title=Tobar Fhionnchon/Saint Fionnchú's Well |url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/1410655 |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=logainm.ie |language=en}}</ref> By the 9th century, Brigown had a round tower (this tower was damaged in a lightning strike in 1720 and demolished in 1807).<ref name="booklet"/><ref>{{cite book | first = Bill | last = Power | title = Another Side of Mitchelstown | publisher = PsyOps Books | date = 2009 | pages = 1, 33 }}{{ISBN missing|date=April 2024}}</ref>

Mitchelstown itself is based at or near the site of a 13th-century Norman settlement called "Villa Michel".<ref name="booklet"/> During the 13th century, "Villa Michel" was granted market rights giving it a commercial focus within the region.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} From about 1300 to 1600, the town was the property of the White Knights, Chiefs of the Clan Gibbon (FitzGibbons), a branch of the Earls of Desmond. The White Knights were lords over large portions of modern-day counties [[County Cork|Cork]], [[County Limerick|Limerick]] and [[County Tipperary|Tipperary]] consisting of an estate of over 40,000 hectares.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} The first Mitchelstown Castle was built by the White Knights sometime in the 14th century and it lasted until the 1770s.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} The original town itself appears to have evolved from a cluster of cabins and laneways around this castle probably starting in the late-thirteenth or early-fourteenth centuries.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

The area known as Kingston College (or "King's Square") was built around 1764 by [[James King, 4th Baron Kingston]] for the cost of £12,000. It was initially established as housing for elderly, impoverished [[Protestantism|Protestants]]. When James died in 1764, his 10-year-old granddaughter Caroline FitzGerald inherited the estate. Five years later she married her 15-year-old cousin, [[Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston|Robert King, Viscount Kingsborough]] who himself later inherited large estates in counties Roscommon and Sligo.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} For a time, their joint land ownership was around 70,000 hectares.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} The revolutionary writer [[Mary Wollstonecraft]], briefly worked as a governess to three of their daughters.<ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/from-the-education-of-daughters-to-the-rights-of-woman-mary-wollstonecraft-in-ireland-1786-7/ | title = From the Education of daughters to the Rights of woman: Mary Wollstonecraft in Ireland, 1786–7 | magazine = History Ireland | issue = 1 (January/February 2016) | volume = 24 }}</ref>

Unlike other landlords of the time, who had a "hands off" management style, Caroline and Robert King undertook a number of progressive projects in their Mitchelstown estate from the mid-1770s onwards.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} The demesne wall, reputed to be the longest park wall in Ireland,{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} took 16 years to build. It is 10&nbsp;km long, encloses 500 hectares and was originally over 3 metres in height in most places.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

The medieval town was demolished and replaced by the present town which is centred more to the south-east. The town was laid out in a grid pattern of two main streets intersected by a number of smaller streets.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

Some of its streets are named after members of the King family, namely [[Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton|Robert]], [[George King, 3rd Earl of Kingston|George]], [[Edward King (Royal Navy officer)|Edward]], James, Thomas and also King (the family name). The other streets of the Georgian town are Church Street, Baldwin Street, Alley Lane, Chapel Hill, Convent Hill, King Square, New Square and Mulberry Lane.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

The layout established by the second and third [[Earl of Kingston|Earls of Kingston]], between 1776 and 1830, utilised the natural features of the site to give views of the Galtee Mountains.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} This is best illustrated by how George Street was designed with Saint George's Arts and Heritage Centre (formerly Saint George's Church) closing the view on the southern end, and the northern view being terminated by Kingston College and Temple Hill on the Galtee Mountains.{{original research inline|date=April 2024}}

[[Mitchelstown Castle]] was rebuilt between 1823 and 1825 by George King, 3rd Earl of Kingston.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

During the Irish Civil War in 1922, the castle was occupied by the Irish Republican Army. During six weeks of occupation, its contents were looted and the building was burnt on the night 12 and 13 August 1922 – ostensibly to prevent it from being used by the [[Irish Free State]] army. However, there is no evidence to support that claim.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} Another motive, put forward for the fire, was to cover up the looting and destruction of the building.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} The ashlar limestone of the house stood as a ruin until about 1930 when it was bought by the monks of [[Mount Melleray Abbey]] who used it to build their new monastery in County Waterford.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

===Mitchelstown massacre===
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Between 1879 and 1881, and again between 1886 and 1888, local tenantry, led by [[John Mandeville (Land Leaguer)|John Mandeville]] and [[William O'Brien]], MP, organised a [[rent strike]] on the Mitchelstown Estate, then owned by Anna, Dowager Countess of Kingston and her second husband, William Downes Webber. On 9 September 1887, a protest was held later in the day in New Market Square outside the Market House where Mandeville and O'Brien were being tried. Neither man appeared in court. After the court ended, approximately 8,000 demonstrators paraded into New Square. As the speeches began from a wagon in the square, the police attempted to get an official police notetaker closer to the platform so that he could hear and record what was being said. Their motives were misunderstood, and they were held back by the crowd. They retreated, returning moments later with fifty reinforcements. This time, they fixed bayonets and used the butts of their rifles to hit horses that had been placed around the edge of the crowd to prevent their access to the wagon. In the melee that followed, hand-to-hand combat involving police being beaten with sticks and stones being thrown at them. The police retreated to their barracks, which was on a house that overlooked part of the square. As the last constable arrived at the barracks, he drew his revolver and fired a single shot into the air. This created confusion amongst the police inside the barracks, who by that time had been placed at the upstairs windows with carbine rifles. Several shots were fired into the crowd. Three men were killed and several more injured. The dead men were John Shinnick of [[Fermoy]], John Casey of [[Kilbehenny]] and Michael Lonergan of [[Galbally, County Limerick]].<ref>Bill Power, 'White Knights Dark Earls, the rise and fall of an Anglo-Irish dynasty,' (The Collins Press, 2000)</ref><ref>W.E. Vaughan, 'A New History of Ireland VI: Ireland Under the Union, 1870-1921'(Oxford, 2010), p. 72</ref> The incident generated considerable international attention and became known as the "Mitchelstown Massacre". The phrase "Remember Mitchelstown" (first coined by [[William Ewart Gladstone|William Gladstone]]) became a rallying cry for Irishmen at home and abroad. The memorial to Mandeville that stands in Market Square was unveiled in 1906 by [[William O'Brien]] MP. It also commemorates the names of the three men killed in 1887.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

==Economy==
===Co-operative===
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{{see also|Dairygold#History}}
[[file:Mitchelstown, 1978 geograph-3174900-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|Streetscape in 1978]]
Up to 1990, Mitchelstown was the headquarters for Mitchelstown Co-operative Agricultural Society Ltd, one of the largest co-operatives in Ireland. This farmers co-op was founded in 1919. Between 1919 and 1990, Mitchelstown Co-op Creameries became the largest dairy processing business on the island of Ireland. While it became known for its processed cheese brands, it was better known in overseas dairy industry circles for its natural cheeses, which were exported around Europe and for which it earned several international prizes.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

In the 1930s, the co-op promoted the introduction of intensive pig production in the area as another source of farm income, and several of Ireland's largest industrial pig farms were subsequently based in the Mitchelstown area.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

In October 1990, Mitchelstown Co-operative merged with Ballyclough Co-operative (based in [[Mallow, County Cork]]) to create an enlarged [[Dairygold|Dairygold Co-Operative]]. The co-op is now the largest farmer owned co-operative in Ireland and has its headquarters in Mitchelstown.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} One of the first managers of Mitchelstown Creameries was Eamon Roche, who was credited with the organisation's massive growth.

Today Mitchelstown is home to Kerrygold Park, a €40 million butter production and packing facility supplying the [[Ornua|Kerrygold]] butter brand worldwide.<ref>Haddaoui, Lara. "[https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/business/kerrygold-unveils-new-40m-expansion-at-its-flagship-butter-facility-in-cork/a1505204121.html Kerrygold unveils new €40m expansion at its flagship butter facility in Cork]". ''[[Irish Independent]]'', 25 October 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2025</ref>

==Transport==
===Road===
[[File:Mitchelstown R639 cantilever sign.JPG|thumb|Cantilever sign for access to Mitchelstown from the [[M8 motorway (Ireland)|M8]], 3&nbsp;km south of the town.]]
Mitchelstown is situated close to the [[M8 motorway (Ireland)|M8]] Dublin to Cork motorway, which runs to the east and can be accessed from Junctions 12 and 13.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

A relief road, located to the west of the town, serves to filter [[N73 road (Ireland)|N73]] traffic towards [[Mallow, County Cork|Mallow]] and [[R513 road (Ireland)|R513]] traffic towards [[Limerick]]. The construction of the relief road to the west and north, and its connection in 2009 to the [[M8 motorway (Ireland)|M8]] to the east of Mitchelstown, means that the town has become the smallest in Ireland to have a full 360-degree ring road.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} Prior to the opening of the relief road in 2006, the [[N8 road (Ireland)|N8]] ran through Mitchelstown itself, seriously congesting the main street. The [[R665 road]] connects Mitchelstown to [[Clonmel]], while the former N8 now redesignated as the [[R639]] provides an alternative route from Mitchelstown to [[Cork (city)|Cork]], [[Fermoy]] and [[Cahir]].{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

===Bus===
[[Bus Éireann]] runs intercity services through the town providing a service to both Dublin and Cork.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} Since late 2022, there is an expanded bus service between the town and Limerick city, which serves several intermediate towns and villages.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

===Rail===
Mitchelstown railway station opened on 23 March 1891, closed to passenger and goods traffic on 27 January 1947, and closed on 1 December 1953.<ref>{{cite web | title=Mitchelstown station | work=Railscot – Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=4 November 2007 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302022802/http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | archive-date=2 March 2011 }}</ref>

==Mitchelstown caves==
{{Main|Mitchelstown Cave}}
The Mitchelstown Caves are [[limestone]] caves located near the [[R639]], between Mitchelstown and [[Cahir]]. One cave, Mitchelstown Cave itself, is privately owned and has been developed as a [[show cave]], with a number of caverns open to the public through a guided tour. Some of the [[speleothem]]s are noteworthy including the ''Tower of Babel'' formation. Various other [[stalactite]]s, [[stalagmite]]s and rock formations are also named for their unique structures.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

==Events==
[[Indiependence]], an annual three-day festival weekender, typically takes place on the outskirts of Mitchelstown over the August Bank Holiday. The event has previously hosted acts like Editors, Bastille, Lewis Capaldi, Hozier, Public Enemy, Picture This, The Coronas, Ash, and Feeder.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

==Notable people==
{{See also|Category:People from Mitchelstown}}
*[[Seán Clancy (Irish general)|Seán Clancy]], [[Irish Air Corps|Air Corps]] general, current [[Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces (Ireland)|Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces]]
*[[Michael Francis Crotty]] (born 1970), [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[prelate]] and diplomat, current [[Apostolic Nunciature to Burkina Faso|Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso]] and [[Apostolic Nunciature to Niger|Niger]] and [[Titular bishop|titular]] [[Roman Catholic Bishop of Lindisfarne|archbishop of Lindisfarne]], grew up in Skeheen
*[[John Dunne (bishop of Bathurst)|John Dunne]] (1845{{Ndash}}1919), [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] prelate, [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst (Australia)|Bishop of Bathurst]]
*[[Liam Hamilton]] (1928{{Ndash}}2000), judge and barrister, former [[Chief Justice of Ireland]]
*[[Mark Keane (footballer)|Mark Keane]], professional Australian rules footballer<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41439289.html | title = Mark Keane: 'There was a training session in Castlelyons. I didn't show up. My head was scrambled' | first = Maurice | last = Brosnan | work = Irish Examiner | date = 19 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.balls.ie/gaa/mark-keane-afl-cork-412661 | title = 'I Didn't Grow Up Wanting To Play AFL, I Wanted To Play For Cork But I Got A Chance' | first = Maurice | last = Brosnan | website = balls.ie | date = 22 June 2019}}</ref>
*[[Margaret King]] (1773{{Ndash}}1835), hostess, writer, traveller and medical adviser
*[[John Roach (shipbuilder)|John Roach]] (1815{{Ndash}}1887), proprietor of America's largest post-[[American Civil War|Civil War]] shipbuilding empire, [[John Roach & Sons]]
*[[Kevin Roche]] (1922{{Ndash}}2019), American architect and son of Eamon Roche, Mitchelstown Co-operative Creameries' first general manager, raised in the town
*[[William Trevor]] (1928{{Ndash}}2016), author, five-time [[Booker Prize]] nominee, born and spent his early childhood in the town

==See also==
*[[Market Houses in the Republic of Ireland|Market Houses in Ireland]]


==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*[[Elizabeth Bowen]], ''Bowen's Court'', London, 1940. 
*Penny Johnston and Jacinta Kiely, ''Hidden Voices: The archaeology of the M8 Fermoy-Mitchelstown motorway'', Transport Infrastructure Ireland, 2019. {{ISBN|978-1-911633-15-0}}
*Melanie McQuade, Bernice Molloy and Colm Moriarty, ''In the Shadow of the Galtees, archaeological excavations along the N8 Cashel to Mitchelstown Road Scheme'', The National Roads Authority, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-9545955-9-3}}
*Margaret O'Doherty, ''Mitchelstown's West Side Story: A History of Killacluig/Gortroe 1845-1995'', Gortroe National School Board of Management. 1995. 
*Margaret O'Doherty et al., ''Ballygiblin by the Galtees'', The Ballygiblin Church Anniversary Committee, 1997
*Tom O'Donnell, ''The Story of Mitchelstown C.B.S.'', Mitchelstown C.B.S., 2008. 
*Tom O'Donnell, ''The Turbulent Life of Dean Morgan O'Brien'', Carraig Print, 2009. 
*Bill Power, ''The Mitchelstown Saints'', Mitchelstown, 1980.
*Bill Power, ''Mitchelstown through seven centuries'', Eigse Books, 1987. {{ISBN|0-907568-16-5}}
*Bill Power, ''Evensong, the story of a Church of Ireland country parish'', Mount Cashell Books, 1994. 
*Bill Power, ''White Knights, Dark Earls: The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Irish Dynasty'', The Collins Press, 2000. {{ISBN|1-898256-94-2}}
*Bill Power, ''Another Side of Mitchelstown'', PsyOps Books, 2009. ISBN 0-9529606-64-1
*Bill Power, ''Doomed Inheritance: Mitchelstown Castle – Looted & Burned August 1922'', Scriptorium Mulberry, 2022.

==External links==
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{{EB1911 poster|Mitchelstown}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110605234828/http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Mitchelstown%2FMitchelstown.shtml Mitchelstown Poor Law Union and Workhouse] (archived 2011)

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