Mallow

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Mallow ( Irish : Mala , older Maigh Eala , Magh nAla ) is a town with 8,794 inhabitants (as of 2016) in County Cork in the southwest of the Republic of Ireland . Located around 35 km north of the city of Cork on the N20 in the Blackwater River valley, Mallow is the administrative center of the north of the Irish county of Cork.

history

Clashes broke out in the city during the Irish War of Independence . Time and again, the lines of the railroad connections from Cork, Tralee and Waterford to Mallow station were interrupted by members of the IRA in order to prevent rapid troop transports to Mallow. Mallow was the only place in Ireland where a British Army barracks could be ambushed and their crew overwhelmed. The IRA volunteers under the command of Liam Lynch and Ernie O'Malley captured numerous rifles and other firearms and ammunition in the morning hours of September 28, 1920. A sergeant who tried to resist the raid was killed. Then an attempt was made to set fire to the barracks. In the evening, the British Army retaliated by burning a dairy and Mallow Town Hall. The fire in the main street spread as residents were prevented from extinguishing by the curfew and the gunfire by soldiers. Several buildings in the north of the city burned down.

On January 31, 1921, a Royal Irish Constabulary captain , George King, was ambushed at the train station. King had only been transferred to Mallow the year before for threatening to shoot a mother if she did not tell him the whereabouts of her sons. These were wanted because of their affiliation with the IRA. The captain was seriously injured and his wife accompanying him died in the attack. Police officers and paramilitary Black and Tans then took action against railway workers who could still be found at the station after 9 p.m., the curfew date. They shot three of them. This led to railroad workers' union meetings across the UK, but a strike by stokers and engine drivers was finally canceled.

Attractions

13.6 km southwest of Mallow is the Beenalaght Stone Range . The six stones in the row are on a hill west of the Mallow to Coachford road .

The two Mallow Castles are also worth seeing. The castle, which is still preserved today, was partly built in the last decade of the 17th century from the stones that fell when the old castle burned in 1689. This old fortification, the Short Castle , located south of the main house , dates back to the 15th century and was restored and expanded at the end of the 16th century by Sir Thomas Norreys, Lord President of Munster. The ruin has two towers that are still imposing today and contains the foundations of a fortress that was built by the Normans in 1185 after the land was taken from the local O'Keefes. The new castle was owned by the descendants of Sir Thomas Norrey's daughter Elizabeth, whose godmother was Elizabeth I , and her husband John Jephson until 1984 . Today it is owned by the McGinn family of Washington, DC , who turned it into a hotel business.

In the small health resort Mallow you will also find a former bath house, the clock house, a fountain with dog heads as well as the main street with bay windows and the two churches of St. James and St. Mary.

Sons and daughters

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Mallow is a railway hub in the south of Ireland. Mallow train station is in Annabella, just outside the city. Further south, the junctions to Cork and Tralee meet. Until March 1967 there was also a route connection to Waterford via Fermoy , Lismore and Dungarvan .

The station with three platforms was opened on March 17, 1849. In 1922 the important bridge connection "Blackwater Masonry Viaduct" on the route to Cork was destroyed after several unsuccessful attacks by the IRA. At first only two of the ten arches were blown up, but a few days later the entire bridge. Thousands of people in Mallow and the surrounding area became unemployed because the important connection to Cork and Kerry no longer worked.

As a crossing point of the N20, N72 and N73 Mallow is called the "crossroads of Munster " ( Crossroads of Munster called).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Irish Town Burning; Kill Two in Belfast; in New York Times (accessed on 21 December 2009) of 29 September 1920
  2. ^ Inspector's Wife Is Slain in Ireland. Capt. King Seriously Wounded, Mrs. King Shot Dead Near Mallow Railway Station in New York Times February 1, 1921 (accessed December 21, 2009)
  3. ↑ Strike Threatened Over Irish Shooting. British Railway Union Demands an Inquiry by Feb. 15 Into Affair at Mallow in New York Times, February 9, 1921 (accessed December 21, 2009)
  4. ^ A. Weir: Ireland. A field guide. Blackstaff Press, Belfast 1980, p. 113
  5. ^ Beenalaght at The Megalithic Portal
  6. ↑ Irish railways (PDF; 552 kB) Mallow station (p. 42)

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′  N , 8 ° 39 ′  W