placenamesStillorgan
Stigh Lorgan
The shopping centre opened in 1966 and introduced an American-influenced retail layout to Stillorgan.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Stigh Lorgan · Irish · main form · validated name
- Stillorgan · English · main form
Place & story
Opening a new kind of centre
Seán Lemass opened Stillorgan’s shopping centre on 1 December 1966. Crampton built it for developer MEPC, with architect John Costello drawing inspiration from visits to America. Its open-air malls and covered walkways offered a new arrangement for local shopping, combining shops in a single planned complex. [2]
A later transformation
Renovations in 2018 changed the centre’s façades and canopies, repaved the malls and altered the car-park layout. The works also included an extension and a redesigned first-floor mall named the Orpen Mall, adding another phase to the centre’s development. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Stillorgan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Stillorgan Village: Some History · Stillorgan Village Shopping Centre
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2010-04-13. How this page was prepared.