The name of Mitchelstown originates from the Anglo-Norman family called ‘St Michel’ who founded a settlement close to the site of the present town in the 13th century. The parish was originally known as ‘Villa Michel’.

“Mitchelstown began as a trading co-op – farmers had started coming together on an informal basis in 1918 to try and buy seeds at reasonable prices immediately after the war and it developed from that into a trading co-op.”

north east Victoria
Mitchellstown is a locality in north east Victoria, Australia. The locality is in the Shire of Strathbogie local government area and on the Goulburn River, 134 kilometres (83 mi) north east of the state capital, Melbourne….Mitchellstown.

County Cork
Mitchelstown Catholic Parish, County Cork, Ireland Genealogy.

Mitchelstown, and the villages and townlands that make up its hinterland, is an area of great beauty, agricultural richness, culture and heritage. It is located in the heart of an area known as the “Golden Vale”, and is famous for its cheese.

The castle was the seat of the King family and of George King, Third Earl of Kingston, who built it between 1823 and 1825 on the site of an earlier building. It represented the power and majesty of an order that has now passed.

A land dispute is believed to have led a farmer to murder his two brothers with an axe before he killed himself. Detectives say Johnny Hennessy attacked Paddy, 60, and 66-year-old Willie near Mitchelstown, Co Cork, on Thursday night.

Best Things To Do in Mitchelstown, Ireland

• The Ramble Inn. 4.3 (36 Votes) Bar, Restaurant. Address: 3 Baldwin St, Ballinwillin, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, Ireland.
• Mitchelstown Library. 4.3 (4 Votes) Sutton’s Court Clonmel Road.
• Indiependence Music & Arts Festival. 52 Upper Cork St.
• Paddy Power. New Market Square & Lower Cork St.

Breeo Foods cited poor industrial relations, intense competition and high costs for the decision to shut the processed cheese plant in Mitchelstown. Breeo Foods decided to axe the plant after a review of its operations concluded the factory did not have a future.

Pj luddy
On 12 August 1922, Mitchelstown Castle was burned on the orders of a local republican leader, Pj luddy, whose father and grandfather had been middlemen on the Kingston estate.

Not everyone likes what he has to say about the somewhat unseemly demise of the once-great Mitchelstown Castle, which was razed by the Republican side in the Civil War on August 12th, 1922. The event itself is well-remembered in the area.

Sometime on the evening of Thursday, February 25, Johnny Hennessy killed his two brothers, Willie and Paddy, and then went on to kill himself by drowning in the Funcheon River – at the same spot more or less where a fourth brother, Jerry Hennessy, took his own life in January 2014.

The name of Mitchelstown originates from the Anglo-Norman family called ‘St Michel’ who founded a settlement close to the site of the present town in the 13th century.

Mitchellstown is a small Victorian Rural Location within the local government area of Strathbogie, it is located approximately 107kms from the capital Melbourne covering an area of 52.672 square kilometres. Mitchellstown has a recorded population of 57 residents and is within the Australian Eastern Daylight Time zone Australia/Melbourne.

Mitchelstown (Irish: Baile Mhistéala) is a town in County Cork, Ireland with a population of approximately 3740.

There are three Churches in the Parish: Our Lady Conceived Without Sin, in Mitchelstown itself; the Church of the Holy Family in Ballygiblin and the Church of St. Joseph in Killacluig. We have four Primary schools, two located in the town itself, Bunscoil na Toirbhirte and CBS, and Ballygiblin NS and Glenahulla NS.