Mallow

A small inland town pleasantly situated in ‘good wheat country’ on the fertile northern bank of the river Blackwater, Mallow, by the late eighteenth century, was ‘probably the most famous spa town in Ireland.’ Once much resorted to for its clear spring, it had since become unfashionable, having lost out to domestic and English competition.E. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800, ii (2002), 211; H. Heany, A Scottish Whig in Ireland 1835-1838. The Irish Journals of Robert Graham of Redgorton (1999), 129-30.