Mallow (;
) is a town in
County Cork
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, Ireland, approximately thirty-five kilometres north of
Cork City
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. Mallow is in a
townland
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and
civil parish
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of the same name, in the
barony of Fermoy.
It is the administrative centre of north County Cork, and the Northern Divisional Offices of
Cork County Council are located in the town. Mallow is part of the
Cork North-Central Dáil constituency after being moved from the
Cork East Dáil Constituency in 2023.
Name
The earliest form of the name is ''Magh nAla'', meaning "plain of the stone".
In the
anglicisation
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"Mallow", ''-ow'' originally represented a
reduced
schwa sound (), which is now however pronounced as a full vowel . In 1975, ''Mala''—a shortening of ''Magh nAla''—was among the first Irish placenames adopted by
statute
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, on the advice of the Placenames branch of the
Ordnance Survey of Ireland
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.
In the ''
Annals of the Four Masters
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'', compiled in the 1630s, ''Magh nAla'' is misrepresented as ''Magh Eala'', the
County Donegal
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-based authors being insufficiently familiar with
County Cork
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places.
P.W. Joyce in 1869 surmised that in ''Magh Eala'' , ''Ealla'' referred to the river Blackwater, and connected the name to the nearby
barony Barony may refer to:
* Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron
* Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron
* Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ...
of
Duhallow.
Professor
T. F. O'Rahilly in 1938 interpreted ''Magh Eala'' as "plain of the swans".
This
false etymology
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remains widely cited and has caused resentment by some of the official ''Mala'' as being a gratuitous simplification of ''Magh Eala''.
However, the name ''Mala'' has been used in Irish for more than 300 years.
History
Evidence of pre-historic settlement is found in
Beenalaght (13.6km/8.5 miles south-west of Mallow), where an
alignment
Alignment may refer to:
Archaeology
* Alignment (archaeology), a co-linear arrangement of features or structures with external landmarks
* Stone alignment, a linear arrangement of upright, parallel megalithic standing stones
Biology
* Struc ...
of six
standing stones lie on a hill to the west of the Mallow-
Coachford Road. (grid ref: 485 873, Latitude: 52.035818N Longitude: 8.751181W).
The first
Mallow Castle was built in 1185 on the orders of King John.
Williamite War in Ireland (1690)
On 16 September 1690, shortly after the failed
Siege of Limerick but before the
Siege of Cork, Colonel Moritz Melchior von Donop, commanding of the
second regiment of Danish cavalry, reconnoitred Mallow and destroyed the bridge. He reported encountering a group of Jacobite
raparees in Mallow, perhaps 3000 strong.
Following his return Major General
Ernst von Tettau and Major General
Scravenmore devised a
ruse whereby a small force of 100 cavalry and 50 dragoons was detached from the overall force of 1200 Horse, 300 Dragoons, and 2 Companies of Danish Foot. These acted as bait and successfully lured out the Jacobites commanded by
Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan and routing them, with 300 raparees dead. Some accounts claim that only Sarsfield and five companions escaped the battle.
Irish War of Independence
During the
Irish War of Independence
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, the town served as the headquarters of the North Cork Militia (also known as North Cork Rifles), a unit in the
Irish Republican Army
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(IRA). On 27 September 1920, IRA commanders
Ernie O'Malley and
Liam Lynch led the Cork No. 2 Brigade in an attack against the military barracks in Mallow, which was garrisoned by elements of the
17th Lancers. The successful attack saw the IRA capture large quantities of firearms and ammunition, partially burning the barracks in the process. In reprisal, angered soldiers from
Buttevant and
Fermoy
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went on a rampage in Mallow, burning several main street premises, including
Mallow Town Hall and the local
creamery
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, on the next day.
In February 1921, the IRA killed the wife of RIC Captain W. H. King during a botched assassination attempt on her husband near the
Mallow railway station
Mallow railway station is an Ireland, Irish station on the Dublin-Cork railway line, Mallow–Tralee line, Mallow-Tralee railway line and Cork Suburban Rail (Cork Kent railway station, Cork Kent, Cobh railway station, Cobh and Midleton railway ...
. In retaliation, a detachment of the
Black and Tans
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briefly occupied the station, arresting and killing three of its occupants- Patrick Devitt, Daniel Mullane and Denis Bennett, all of whom were railway workers. The killings prompted an
industrial action
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by the National Railworkers Union in Britain and Ireland.
Captain Rubén Ocaña landing
Mallow Racecourse, now known as Cork Racecourse, became an emergency airfield on 18 April 1983, when a Mexican
Gulfstream II business jet piloted by Captain Rubén Ocaña made a precautionary landing. A temporary
tarmacadam
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runway of 910 m (3,000 ft) in length which was paid for by the plane's insurers was laid to enable the aircraft to leave five weeks later. In the meantime, Captain Ocaña became a local celebrity. On 23 May 1983 just before the plane departed, the captain said his farewell to the people of Ireland in the Irish language.
The F3A World Model Aircraft Aerobatic Championship was held there in 2001. The incident formed the basis of the 2010 film '. Following Ocaña's death in 2009,
his family travelled to Mallow in 2023 to scatter his ashes at the racecourse during "OcanaFest", a local event held in his honour.
Geography
Mallow lies on the
River Blackwater, and developed as a defensive settlement protecting an important ford on the river.
Mallow, as with other parts of North Cork, is in an area "likely to have high
radon
Radon is a chemical element; it has symbol Rn and atomic number 86. It is a radioactive noble gas and is colorless and odorless. Of the three naturally occurring radon isotopes, only Rn has a sufficiently long half-life (3.825 days) for it to b ...
levels".
A 2007 reading at one building in the town was one of the highest levels of radon ever found in Ireland, being more than 60 times above the
acceptable limit.
Demography
As of the
2022 census, the town had a population of 13,456, an increase of 1,003 from the
2016 census.
[The 2022 census reports an ethnic composition of 68.9% white Irish, 1.1% white ]Irish travellers
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, 12.2% other white ethnicities, 5.6% black, 3.3% Asian, 2.4% other, with 5.6% not stating their ethnicity.
Economy
Irish statesmen such as Thomas Davis and William O'Brien were both born in Mallow in the 19th century. The main street in Mallow is called Davis Street (although commonly referred to as Main Street), and joins with William O'Brien Street outside Mallow Town Hall. At the point where Davis Street meets O'Brien Street there is a monument to J.J. Fitzgerald, a little-known local politician who was involved in establishing both Mallow Urban District Council and Cork County Council.
The town developed an industrial base in the early 20th century, based largely on its agricultural capability, with dairy produce and sugar beet supplying a sugar factory, operated by Greencore.
Transport and communications
Road
Mallow lies at the convergence of several important routes: National Primary Route 20 ( N20) north-south road
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Th ...
between Cork (35 km) and Limerick
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(70km), National Secondary Route 72 ( N72) east-west between Dungarvan
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(51.5km) and Killarney
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(41.5km), National Secondary Route 73 ( N73) northeast to Mitchelstown and the M8 motorway (21km).
Bus
Mallow is a stop on the Bus Éireann 51 bus service from Cork to Galway
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and 243 bus service from Cork to Newmarket service. Mallow is also serviced by the TFI Local Link buses, connecting the town with Fermoy, Mitchelstown and Charleville via three separate routes, with stops in intermediary villages.
Rail
The Mallow railway viaduct
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which straddles the Blackwater, commonly known as the "Ten Arch Bridge", was bombed and destroyed during the Irish Civil War
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. It was rapidly rebuilt in girder form due to its importance in connecting the Cork, Tralee
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and Dublin
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lines. An additional line east through Fermoy
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and Lismore to the Waterford
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South station closed in 1967. Mallow railway station
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was opened on 17 March 1849 by the Great Southern and Western Railway
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. It is served by trains to via Limerick Junction to Dublin Heuston, Cork and Killarney
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, Farranfore and Tralee
Tralee ( ; , ; formerly , meaning 'strand of the River Lee') is the county town of County Kerry in the south-west of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town is on the northern side of the neck of the Dingle Peninsula, and is the largest town in ...
.
Onward connecting trains link Mallow via Limerick Junction to Limerick
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, Ennis
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, Athenry and Galway
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as well as Carrick-on-Suir
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and Waterford
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.
Air
The nearest airports are Cork Airport
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(42.5 km), Kerry Airport (70 km) and Shannon Airport (84 km). Kerry Airport is accessible by train from Farranfore railway station.
There is a flying club
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Many clubs also provide flight training, flight planning facilities, pilot supplies and ...
at nearby Rathcoole Aerodrome, and a helicopter charter company in nearby Dromahane. The runway constructed for Rubén Ocaña has since been used for parking during race meets and for learner driving. Other light aircraft have occasionally landed on the grass area of Cork Racecourse.
Sport
Founded in 1882, Mallow Rugby Club is one of the oldest rugby clubs in the country. Former players include Munster
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Second Row Ian Nagle, who played juvenile rugby for Mallow and Ulster
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Prop Jerry Cronin, who played juvenile and Junior Rugby for the club.
The town's association football club, Mallow United Football Club, was founded in 1926 and fields senior, junior, schoolboy, and schoolgirl football teams in the Munster Leagues.
The local racecourse, Cork Racecourse
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The cou ...
, now renamed "Cork Racecourse Mallow", plays host to large horse racing
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events.
Mallow GAA is the town's GAA club, and fields teams in hurling
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and Gaelic football
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. The club won the 2017 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship.
Mallow Golf Club, founded in 1947, is located just outside Mallow and has 18 holes. Mallow AC is a local running club.
Amenities
Recreation
Mallow is home to a branch of the Gate Cinema as well as a county library
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with an exhibition space. Other community amenities include a youth centre and a public swimming pool. The town also has several gyms and pubs. A farmers' market is held in the grounds of St James' Church on Friday mornings.
Healthcare
Mallow General Hospital, a hospital in the Cork University Hospital Group, is an acute general hospital in the area. It ran an Emergency Department
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which was replaced with an Urgent Care Center — comprising an Injury Unit (for treatment and diagnosis of minor injury) and Medical Assessment Unit (for treatment and diagnosis of serious symptoms) — following restructuring in 2013. The hospital provides inpatient, outpatient and day patient services including radiology
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, physiotherapy
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, sleep study
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and cardiology
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.
Southdoc, an out-of-hours service for urgent medical assessment, also has a location in Mallow.
People
* Sister Celeste Bowe (1931–1976), Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul
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nun and nurse was born in Newberry, Mallow
* Elaine Crowley (b.1977), television presenter from Newtwopothouse near Mallow
* Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845), nationalist, politician, author, poet and author of the rebel song " A Nation Once Again", was born here.
* Carl Dodd (1942–2018), Irish Army
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officer who served as Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
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(UNTSO) from 2002 to 2004, was born in Mallow.
*Donovan
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(b.1946), singer born in Scotland
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who now lives near Mallow
* John Hogan (1805–1892), a United States representative
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from Missouri
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born in Mallow.
* Paul Kane (1810–1871), Canadian painter
* Joe Lynch (1925–2001), actor
* Joan Denise Moriarty (c.1910–1992), ballet
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dancer, dance teacher and musician, and niece of John Francis (below), is believed to have been born in Mallow.
* John Francis Moriarty (1855–1915) Attorney General for Ireland
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and judge of the Irish Court of Appeal.
* Robert Murphy (1806–1843), mathematician and physicist.
* William O'Brien (1852–1928), nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher and author.
* Stephen O'Flynn (b.1982), former League of Ireland
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and NIFL Premiership
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footballer
* John Baptist Purcell (1800–1883), Bishop of Cincinnati from 1833 to his death.
* Richard Quain (1816–1898), physician to Queen Victoria
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, author of Quain's Dictionary of Medicine.
* Seán Sherlock (b.1972), Labour Party TD for Cork East Constituency, was born in Mallow
* Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet (1822–1885), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was born in Mallow.
International relations
Mallow is twinned with the towns of
* Tinley Park, Illinois, United States
* Landreger, Côtes-d'Armor
The Côtes-d'Armor ( , ; ; , ), formerly known as Côtes-du-Nord until 1990 (, ), is a department in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. In 2019, it had a population of 600,582.[Brittany
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, France
See also
* Metropolitan Cork
* List of towns and villages in Ireland
* Mallow (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Mallow was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800 and was incorporated by Charter of 1613, with a further charter of 1689. It was a manor borough, the franchise being vested in the freeholders of the manor and the r ...
* The Corkman
* Davis College (Mallow)
References
External links
*
Official website
Mallow town community website
accessed 11 June 2021
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Towns and villages in County Cork
Townlands of County Cork
Civil parishes of County Cork
Former urban districts in the Republic of Ireland
Former boroughs in the Republic of Ireland