About Manor Mills
Manor Mills Shopping Centre is located in the heart of Maynooth town. With 30 great stores, ranging from fashion to food and everything in between, there's better local shopping at Manor Mills. Dunnes Stores our anchor offer large food and drapery departments, as well as homewares.
Over 90% of the stores in Manor Mills are Irish owned, something we are really proud of, so shopping in Manor Mills really is shopping local at its best, supporting Irish jobs and businesses.
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Local History
Maynooth is an attractive 18th century town, located in Co. Kildare on the outer subarbs of Dublin. Today it has a population of around 12,510.
Maynooth College, founded as a Catholic seminary just over 200 years ago, is an excellent day trip for groups and families. The classically-styled college is now a bustling university and the ruined castle at the gates of the college was formerly the home of the Fitzgerald family. Maynooth offers horse riding, golf, pitch and putt and canal bank walks. The grounds of St. Patricks College run parallel to the Royal Canal.
The town of Maynooth takes its name from Nuadha Neacht, a pre-Christian King of Ireland, or perhaps from a later Mogh Nuadhat, a ruler of the second century after Christ. In early Christian times there were at least three churches within three miles of the present town though the actual origins of Maynooth could be said to date from the late 12th century when the Fitzgeralds were granted the Manor of Maynooth.
To establish themselves, the newcomers would at first have built a castle of the motte-and-bailey type, and this would have been replaced with a more permanent structure as time allowed. The ruins, now a national monument, are of the castle commenced in the 13th century and much enlarged in later centuries. The great tower still stands to its original height. In 1521 the Fitzgeralds founded a college but it did not survive the Reformation.
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