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

)[12] Today's Mitchelstown and Baile Mhistéala names evolved from several varied spellings, a number of which are listed in the Placenames Database of Ireland.

[11][14] 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.

[citation needed] 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 Cork, Limerick and Tipperary consisting of an estate of over 40,000 hectares.

[citation needed] 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.

Five years later she married her 15-year-old cousin, Robert King, Viscount Kingsborough who himself later inherited large estates in counties Roscommon and Sligo.

[16] 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] The layout established by the second and third Earls of Kingston, between 1776 and 1830, utilised the natural features of the site to give views of the Galtee Mountains.

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.

[citation needed] 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.

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.

This created confusion amongst the police inside the barracks, who by that time had been placed at the upstairs windows with carbine rifles.

The phrase "Remember Mitchelstown" (first coined by William Gladstone) became a rallying cry for Irishmen at home and abroad.

[citation needed] One of the first managers of Mitchelstown Creameries was Eamon Roche, who was credited with the organisation's massive growth.

[citation needed] Prior to the opening of the relief road in 2006, the N8 ran through Mitchelstown itself, seriously congesting the main street.

[citation needed] 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.