Ráth Maonais

The name Maonas is perhaps derived from Maoghnes or the Norman name de Meones, after the de Meones family who settled in Dublin about 1280. William de Meones came to Ireland in the entourage of an Anglo-Norman archbishop in 1279-80 and acquired extensive landholdings from his ecclesiastical superior. Like many of the surrounding areas, it arose from a fortified structure which would have been t...