Mallow, County Cork

The earliest form of the name is Magh nAla, meaning "plain of the stone".{{cite web |title=Mala / Mallow |url=http://www.logainm.ie/1414050.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029193334/http://www.logainm.ie/1414050.aspx |archive-date=29 October 2013 |access-date=10 March 2019 |website=logainm.ie |publisher=Placenames Database of Ireland}} In the anglicisation "Mallow", -ow originally represented a reduced schwa sound ({{IPAc-en|'|m|æ|l|ə}}), which is now however pronounced as a full vowel {{IPAc-en|oʊ}}.{{cite book |title=Gazetteer of Ireland / Gasaitéar na hÉireann |year=1989 |publisher=Government of Ireland |isbn=0-7076-0076-6}} In 1975, Mala—a shortening of Magh nAla—was among the first Irish placenames adopted by statute,{{cite web |title=I.R. Uimh. 133/1975 – An tOrdú Logainmneacha (Foirmeacha Gaeilge) (Uimh. 1) (Postbhailte) 1975. |url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1975/ga/si/0133.html |language=Irish |date=22 July 1975 |access-date=27 January 2008 |publisher=Government of Ireland |quote=Mallow (33) Mala (g. Mhala) |archive-date=29 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229235141/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1975/ga/si/0133.html |url-status=live }} on the advice of the Placenames branch of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland.{{cite web |title=Placenames Orders |url=http://www.pobail.ie/en/IrishLanguage/ThePlacenamesBranch/PlacenamesOrders/ |access-date=27 January 2008 |publisher=Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080402220255/http://www.pobail.ie/en/IrishLanguage/ThePlacenamesBranch/PlacenamesOrders/ |archive-date=2 April 2008 }}{{cite web|title=The Placenames Commission |url=http://www.logainm.ie/English/history.asp |access-date=27 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070924124141/http://www.logainm.ie/English/history.asp |archive-date=24 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}

In the Annals of the Four Masters, compiled in the 1630s, Magh nAla is misrepresented as Magh Eala, the County Donegal-based authors being insufficiently familiar with County Cork places.{{cite news |title=Marshmallows |newspaper=The Irish Times |first=Roibeárd |last=Ó hÚrdail |date=1 March 1996 |page=15 }} P.W. Joyce in 1869 surmised that in Magh Eala {{sic}}, Ealla referred to the river Blackwater, and connected the name to the nearby barony of Duhallow. Professor T. F. O'Rahilly in 1938 interpreted Magh Eala as "plain of the swans". This false etymology 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.

Evidence of pre-historic settlement is found in Beenalaght (13.6km/8.5 miles south-west of Mallow), where an alignment of six standing stones lie on a hill to the west of the Mallow-Coachford Road.{{cite book | last=Weir, A| year=1980 |title=Early Ireland. A Field Guide | publisher=Blackstaff Press | location=Belfast | page=113 | isbn=0-85640-212-5}} (grid ref: 485 873, Latitude: 52.035818N Longitude: 8.751181W).{{cite web | title=Beenalaght | work=The Megalithic Portal | url=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1768 | access-date=11 June 2008 | archive-date=10 June 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610084228/http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1768 | url-status=live}}

The first Mallow Castle was built in 1185 on the orders of King John.

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.{{cite web |last1=Childs |first1=John |title=The Williamite Wars in Ireland, 1688-91 |url=https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/the-williamite-wars-in-ireland-1688-91/ch16-cork-and-kinsale |website=bloomsburycollections.com |publisher=Bloomsbury Collections |access-date=31 March 2023 |language=en}} 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.{{cite journal |title=A True and faithful account of the present state and condition of the kingdom of Ireland together with the intire defeat of a body of Irish under the command of Colonel Sarsfield by a detached party of 1200 horse and 300 dragoons by Lieut. Gen. Scravenmore within 14 miles of the city of Cork. |url=https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12024/A63383 |website=Bodleian library |access-date=31 March 2023 |date=April 2011}}

During the Irish War of Independence, the town served as the headquarters of the North Cork Militia (also known as North Cork Rifles), a unit in the Irish Republican Army (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 went on a rampage in Mallow, burning several main street premises, including Mallow Town Hall and the local creamery, on the next day.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FpOZpEu1XYwC&dq=28+September+1920+mallow&pg=PA121 | title=Rebel Cork's Fighting Story, 1916-21: Told by the Men who Made it : With a Unique Pictorial Record of the Period | year=2009 | publisher=Mercier Press | isbn=9781856356442 }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAk7EAAAQBAJ&dq=28+September+1920+mallow&pg=PA49 | title=Political Conflict in East Ulster, 1920-22: Revolution and Reprisal | isbn=9781783275113 | last1=Magill | first1=Christopher | year=2020 | publisher=Boydell & Brewer }}O'Malley, On Another Man's Wound, pp. 239–247

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. In retaliation, a detachment of the Black and Tans 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 by the National Railworkers Union in Britain and Ireland.{{cite book|last=Keane|first=Barry|title=Cork's Revolutionary Dead|year=2017|publisher=Mercier Press|isbn=978-1-7811-7496-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QD3BDwAAQBAJ&dq=Patrick+Devitt,+Daniel+Mullane&pg=PT225}}{{cite book|last=O'Donoghue|first=Florence|title=No other law: the story of Liam Lynch and the Irish Republican Army, 1916–1923|year=1954|publisher=Irish Press|pages=132|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=izdoAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Captain+King+was+accompanied+by+his+wife+and+in+the+exchange+of+fire%22}}

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.{{Cite web |date=28 May 2025 |title=Emergency Landing At Mallow Racecourse 1983 |url=https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0521/965058-mexican-lands-plane-at-mallow-racecourse/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326211455/https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0521/965058-mexican-lands-plane-at-mallow-racecourse/ |archive-date=26 March 2019 |access-date=28 May 2025 |website=RTE Archives}} A temporary tarmacadam 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.{{Cite news |last=Browne |first=Bill |date=15 March 2023 |title=Mallow’s ‘Ocana Fest’ to rekindle memories of the famous time Mexico landed in North Cork |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/mallows-ocana-fest-to-rekindle-memories-of-the-famous-time-mexico-landed-in-north-cork/42384058.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250528174958/https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/mallows-ocana-fest-to-rekindle-memories-of-the-famous-time-mexico-landed-in-north-cork/42384058.html |archive-date=28 May 2025 |access-date=28 May 2025 |work=Irish Independent}} On 23 May 1983 just before the plane departed, the captain said his farewell to the people of Ireland in the Irish language.{{cite web |last=Hegarty |first=Mandy |title=Interview: 'The Runway' Writer/Director Ian Power on His Debut Feature Film |url=http://iftn.ie/news/featureinterviews/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4283942&tpl=archnews |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507041302/http://iftn.ie/news/featureinterviews/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4283942&tpl=archnews |archive-date=7 May 2015 |access-date=28 November 2013 |publisher=Irish Film and Television Network}} The F3A World Model Aircraft Aerobatic Championship was held there in 2001. The incident formed the basis of the 2010 film {{va|The Runway}}.{{cite web |last=Wilkinson |first=Ron |date=25 July 2012 |title=The Runway – Movie Review |url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/reviews/article_1701333.php/The-Runway-?-Movie-Review |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029191447/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/reviews/article_1701333.php/The-Runway-?-Movie-Review |archive-date=29 October 2013 |access-date=4 August 2012 |publisher=Monsters and Critics}} Following Ocaña's death in 2009,{{Cite news |date=4 April 2023 |title=Jet to return as tourist attraction 40 years after emergency landing on Cork racetrack |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41109265.html |access-date=28 May 2025 |work=Irish Examiner}} his family travelled to Mallow in 2023 to scatter his ashes at the racecourse during "OcanaFest", a local event held in his honour.

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 levels".{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/new-interactive-epa-map-reveals-vast-swathes-of-cork-are-radon-hotspots/41706304.html| work = The Corkman | title = New interactive EPA map reveals vast swathes of Cork are radon 'hotspots' | date = 31 May 2022 |access-date=13 September 2023 | first = Bill | last = Browne }} 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.{{cite news | title=Record radon levels found at Mallow office | publisher=RTÉ News | url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0920/radon.html |access-date=17 July 2009 | date=20 September 2007 | archive-date=20 September 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920151810/http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0920/radon.html | url-status=live}}

{{Historical populations

|1821|4114

|1831|5229

|1841|6851

|1851|5439

|1861|4841

|1871|4165

|1881|4439

|1891|4366

|1901|4542

|1911|4452

|1926|4562

|1936|4948

|1946|5215

|1951|5583

|1956|5729

|1961|5649

|1966|5845

|1971|6506

|1981|7482

|1986|7685

|1991|7521

|1996|7768

|2002|8937

|2006|10241

|2011|11605

|2016|12459

|2022|13456

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As of the 2022 census, the town had a population of 13,456,{{Cite web |date=29 May 2025 |title=Population |url=https://data.cso.ie/table/F1051 |url-status=live |access-date=29 May 2025 |website=Central Statistics Office}} 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, 12.2% other white ethnicities, 5.6% black, 3.3% Asian, 2.4% other, with 5.6% not stating their ethnicity.{{Cite web |date=29 May 2025 |title=Usually Resident Population by Ethnic or Cultural Background |url=https://data.cso.ie/table/SAP2022T2T2TOWN22 |access-date=29 May 2025 |website=Central Statistics Office}}

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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.{{cite web|url=https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20815041/j-j-fitzgerald-monument-davis-street-obrien-street-mallow-mallow-cork|title=J.J. FitzGerald Monument, Thomas Davis Street, O'Brien Street, Mallow, Mallow, County Cork|publisher=National Inventory of Architectural Heritage|access-date=30 November 2023}}

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.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/sugar-factory-closure-needless-1.867073|title=Sugar factory closure needless|date=10 November 2010|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=30 November 2023}}

Mallow lies at the convergence of several important routes: National Primary Route 20 (N20) north-south road between Cork (35 km) and Limerick (70km), National Secondary Route 72 (N72) east-west between Dungarvan (51.5km) and Killarney (41.5km), National Secondary Route 73 (N73) northeast to Mitchelstown and the M8 motorway (21km).

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Mallow is a stop on the Bus Éireann 51 bus service from Cork to Galway 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.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

The Mallow railway viaduct which straddles the Blackwater, commonly known as the "Ten Arch Bridge", was bombed and destroyed during the Irish Civil War. It was rapidly rebuilt in girder form due to its importance in connecting the Cork, Tralee and Dublin lines. An additional line east through Fermoy and Lismore to the Waterford South station closed in 1967. Mallow railway station was opened on 17 March 1849 by the Great Southern and Western Railway.{{cite web | title=Mallow station | work=Railscot – Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=31 August 2007 | archive-date=27 November 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127054525/http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | url-status=live }} It is served by trains to via Limerick Junction to Dublin Heuston, Cork and Killarney, Farranfore and Tralee.

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Onward connecting trains link Mallow via Limerick Junction to Limerick, Ennis, Athenry and Galway as well as Carrick-on-Suir and Waterford.

The nearest airports are Cork Airport (42.5 km), Kerry Airport (70 km) and Shannon Airport (84 km). Kerry Airport is accessible by train from Farranfore railway station.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}

There is a flying club at nearby Rathcoole Aerodrome, and a helicopter charter company in nearby Dromahane.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} 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.

Founded in 1882, Mallow Rugby Club is one of the oldest rugby clubs in the country.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mallowrfc.com/ |title=Official Mallow Rugby Website |access-date=25 September 2021 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121163918/https://www.mallowrfc.com/ |url-status=live }} Former players include Munster Second Row Ian Nagle, who played juvenile rugby for Mallow and Ulster Prop Jerry Cronin, who played juvenile and Junior Rugby for the club.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mallowunited.com/ |title=Official Mallow United FC Website |access-date=25 September 2021 |archive-date=9 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109040633/http://www.mallowunited.com/ |url-status=live }}

The local racecourse, Cork Racecourse, now renamed "Cork Racecourse Mallow",{{Cite web |url=http://www.corkracecourse.ie/ |title=Cork Racecourse Mallow |access-date=25 September 2021 |archive-date=6 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906115201/https://www.corkracecourse.ie/ |url-status=live }} plays host to large horse racing events.

Mallow GAA is the town's GAA club, and fields teams in hurling and Gaelic football. The club won the 2017 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship.{{cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-20460952.html|title=Heartbreak for St Michael's as Mallow win Cork Premier Intermediate final|publisher=Irish Examiner|website=irishexaminer.com|date=16 October 2017|access-date=15 August 2020|first=Therese|last=O'Callaghan|archive-date=25 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125120326/https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-20460952.html|url-status=live}}

Mallow Golf Club, founded in 1947, is located just outside Mallow and has 18 holes.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mallowgolfclub.net/ |title=Mallow Golf Club |access-date=25 September 2021 |archive-date=4 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304120703/https://www.mallowgolfclub.net/ |url-status=live }} Mallow AC is a local running club.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mallowac.ie/ |title=Mallow AC |access-date=25 September 2021 |archive-date=10 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610060626/https://mallowac.ie/ |url-status=live }}

Mallow is home to a branch of the Gate Cinema{{Cite news |last=Mongan |first=Martin |date=23 May 2025 |title=Cork musicians dazzle at premiere of music video in Mallow’s Gate Cinema |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/cork-musicians-dazzle-at-premiere-of-music-video-in-mallows-gate-cinema/a1524695993.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250528121856/https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/cork-musicians-dazzle-at-premiere-of-music-video-in-mallows-gate-cinema/a1524695993.html |archive-date=28 May 2025 |access-date=28 May 2025 |work=Irish Independent}} as well as a county library with an exhibition space.{{Cite web |date=28 May 2025 |title=Mallow Library {{!}} Cork County Council |url=https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/directory/amenities/libraries/mallow-library |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240101004004/https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/directory/amenities/libraries/mallow-library |archive-date=1 January 2024 |access-date=28 May 2025 |website=Cork County Council}} 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.{{fact|date=June 2025}}

Mallow General Hospital, a hospital in the Cork University Hospital Group, is an acute general hospital in the area. It ran an Emergency Department 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){{Cite web |date=31 March 2013 |title=Mallow Urgent Care Centre - For the people of North Cork and surrounding areas |url=https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/acute-hospitals-division/about-our-hospitals/local-injury-unit.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250528130951/https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/hospitals/mallowurgentcarecentre.pdf |archive-date=28 May 2025 |access-date=28 May 2025 |website=Health Service Executive}} — following restructuring in 2013.{{Cite news |date=28 February 2013 |title=Mallow hospital's emergency department to close, replaced with urgent care centre |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0228/370001-hse-regional-hospitals/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302103258/https://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0228/370001-hse-regional-hospitals/ |archive-date=2 March 2013 |access-date=28 May 2025 |work=RTE}} The hospital provides inpatient, outpatient and day patient services including radiology, physiotherapy, sleep study and cardiology.{{Cite web |date=28 May 2025 |title=Mallow General Hospital |url=https://www.cuh.hse.ie/our-locations/mallow-general-hospital/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924103813/https://www.cuh.hse.ie/our-locations/mallow-general-hospital/ |archive-date=24 September 2023 |access-date=28 May 2025 |website=Cork University Hospital}}

Southdoc, an out-of-hours service for urgent medical assessment, also has a location in Mallow.{{Cite web |date=28 May 2025 |title=SouthDoc Mallow - HSE |url=https://www2.hse.ie/services/find-urgent-emergency-care/southdoc-mallow/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723145351/https://www2.hse.ie/services/find-urgent-emergency-care/southdoc-mallow/ |archive-date=23 July 2024 |access-date=28 May 2025 |website=Health Service Executive}}

{{See also|Category:People from Mallow, County Cork}}

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• Sister Celeste Bowe (1931–1976), Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul nun and nurse was born in Newberry, Mallow{{cite book|last1=Lunney|first1=Sheila|title=Dictionary of Irish Biography|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|editor1-last=McGuire|editor1-first=James|location=Cambridge|chapter=Bowe, Catherine Mary (Sister Celeste)|editor2-last=Quinn|editor2-first=James|chapter-url = https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a9296}}
• Elaine Crowley (b.1977), television presenter from Newtwopothouse near Mallow{{cite web|url = https://www.echolive.ie/corklives/My-Weekend-Its-off-with-the-makeup-and-bra-and-on-with-the-comfies-on-a-Friday-night-2ae197d8-9ecb-45db-9ae0-d590b82f45f9-ds | publisher = The Echo | website = echolive.ie | title = My Weekend | date = 28 February 2020 | access-date = 13 August 2020 }}
• Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845), nationalist, politician, author, poet and author of the rebel song "A Nation Once Again", was born here.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Davis, Thomas Osborne|last=Hutton|first=William Holden|author-link=William Holden Hutton|no-icon=1}}
• Carl Dodd (1942–2018), Irish Army officer who served as Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) from 2002 to 2004, was born in Mallow.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
• Donovan (b.1946), singer born in Scotland who now lives near Mallow{{cite web | url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20459130.html | publisher = Irish Examiner | title = Donovan: Call him Mallow yellow | date = 18 September 2017 | access-date = 13 August 2020 | archive-date = 7 May 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210507031539/https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20459130.html | url-status = live }}
• John Hogan (1805–1892), a United States representative from Missouri born in Mallow.{{CongBio|H000691|John Hogan|inline= yes }}
• Paul Kane (1810–1871), Canadian painter{{cite DCB |last=Harper |first=J. Russell |authorlink=John Russell Harper |title=Paul Kane |volume=10 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/kane_paul_10E.html}}
• Joe Lynch (1925–2001), actor{{cite web | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joe-lynch-9263479.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220627020129/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joe-lynch-9263479.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 27 June 2022 | newspaper = The Independent |location=UK | title = Obituaries – Joe Lynch | date = 13 August 2001 | access-date = 13 August 2020 }}
• Joan Denise Moriarty (c.1910–1992), ballet dancer, dance teacher and musician, and niece of John Francis (below), is believed to have been born in Mallow.{{cite web | url = https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/joan-denise-moriarty-mother-of-the-dance-26837705.html | publisher = Independent News & Media | website = Irish Independent | title = Joan Denise Moriarty: Mother of the dance | date = 11 March 2012 | access-date = 13 August 2020 | archive-date = 6 October 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171006162748/http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/joan-denise-moriarty-mother-of-the-dance-26837705.html | url-status = live }}
• John Francis Moriarty (1855–1915) Attorney General for Ireland and judge of the Irish Court of Appeal.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
• Robert Murphy (1806–1843), mathematician and physicist.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Murphy, Robert|volume=39}}
• William O'Brien (1852–1928), nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher and author.{{Britannica|423987|William O'Brien}}
• Stephen O'Flynn (b.1982), former League of Ireland and NIFL Premiership footballer{{cite web|url = https://www.extratime.com/articles/16475/stephen-oflynn-interview---any-time-i-did-well-was-when-i-enjoyed-my-football/ | website = extratime.com | title = Stephen O'Flynn interview | access-date = 13 August 2020 }}
• John Baptist Purcell (1800–1883), Bishop of Cincinnati from 1833 to his death.
• Richard Quain (1816–1898), physician to Queen Victoria, author of Quain's Dictionary of Medicine.
• Seán Sherlock (b.1972), Labour Party TD for Cork East Constituency, was born in Mallow{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
• Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet (1822–1885), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was born in Mallow.{{Cite ODNB|id=26774|title=Sullivan, Sir Edward, first baronet}}

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Mallow is twinned with the towns of

• {{flagicon|USA}} Tinley Park, Illinois, United States{{cite web | url = https://ie.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/policy-history/sister-cities/ | publisher = US Embassy in Ireland | website = ie.usembassy.gov | title = Sister Cities | access-date = 13 August 2020 | archive-date = 25 December 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181225082042/https://ie.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/policy-history/sister-cities/ | url-status = live }}
• {{flagicon|France}} Landreger, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany, France{{Cite news |last=Cosgrove |first=Eugene |date=23 March 2023 |title=Mallow renewing ties with twin town Treguier in Brittany |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/mallow-renewing-ties-with-twin-town-treguier-in-brittany/42401074.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250601140157/https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/mallow-renewing-ties-with-twin-town-treguier-in-brittany/42401074.html |archive-date=1 June 2025 |access-date=1 June 2025 |work=Irish Independent}}

• Metropolitan Cork
• List of towns and villages in Ireland
• Mallow (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
• The Corkman
• Davis College (Mallow)

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{{Wikivoyage|Mallow}}

• {{cite EB1911 |wstitle= Mallow (Ireland) |volume=17 |page=492 |short=x}}
• [http://www.mallow.ie Official website]
• [http://www.mallowtown.com Mallow town community website]
• [https://sites.rootsweb.com/~irlmahs/mric.htm Record of RIC casualties from the Mallow area 1916-22] accessed 11 June 2021

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