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Mallow ()〔(Placenames Database of Ireland )〕 is a town in County Cork, Ireland, about thirty-five kilometres north of Cork. Mallow is in the barony of Fermoy. It is the administrative centre of north County Cork and has been nicknamed the "Crossroads of Munster". The Northern Divisional Offices of Cork County Council are located in the town. ==Name in Irish== The earliest form of the name is ''Magh nAla'', meaning "plain of the stone".〔 In the anglicisation "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,〔 〕 on the advice of the Placenames branch of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pobail.ie/en/IrishLanguage/ThePlacenamesBranch/PlacenamesOrders/ ) 〕〔 〕 In the ''Annals of the Four Masters'', compiled in the 1630s, ''Magh nAla'' is misrepresented as ''Magh Eala'', the Donegal-based authors being insufficiently familiar with Cork 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 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 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mallow, County Cork」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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