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About Mallow

Mallow, Mala in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 29 km north-west of Cork. It stands on the N20, N72 and R619. The map gives it 4,609 buildings and 108 named streets, with 268 places named on them in 111 kinds, and 69 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
13,456, as the map records it
Where
29 km north-west of Cork, 210 km from Dublin
Position
52.1374° N, 8.6450° W, 74 m above sea level
Area
16.76 km²
Roads
N20, N72, R619, R620, R883, R930, L1203 and L1207
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
4,609 buildings, 108 streets, 268 named places in 111 kinds
Main Street, Mallow
Main Street, Mallow·David P Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bishop Casey Memorial Park / Mallow Town Park, Mallow
Bishop Casey Memorial Park / Mallow Town Park, Mallow·Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Mallow in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1229 to 2016. That is not a history of Mallow, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

12292016Ballybeg AbbeyCork College of FET - Mallow Campus
The thirteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twenty-first century

County Cork since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

854,118330,443584,15618412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 69 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N20, N72, R619, R620, R883, R930, L1203 and L1207 running through Mallow. 14 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 8 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Mallow?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 29 km north-west of Cork and 210 km from Dublin, on the N20, N72 and R619.
How big is Mallow?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 4,609 buildings, 108 named streets and 268 named places, which by building count makes it the 7th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Mallow?
69 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Mallow Town Hall, J J Fitzgerald Monument and Marian Grotto.
How do you get to Mallow?
8 bus and train lines call at 9 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and TFI Local Link Cork. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
4,609
buildings on the model
108
named streets
268
named places
111
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q922247). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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