 The name is derived from an Anglo-Norman 
family called Maundeville, which settled there soon after 1172.After the Rebellion of 1641 Theobald Taaffe, Earl 
of Carlingford, acquired the greater part of the 
parish.The Plunkett family of Bawn, the Gernons in Wottonstown 
and Gilbertstown and the Clintons in Derrycamagh were dispossessed.