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Diary of a Tour in 1732 through parts of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland (Author: John Loveday)

Entry 14

Friday, 16. — To Cork again, 10 Miles; to Mallow, at ye Swan, 12 Miles. Goats in ye Road to Cork. We had several Hills to go up & down in ye last 12 Miles. About 2 Miles before Mallow, We rode thro' ye large Ruins of Ballinemony Preceptory of ye Knights of St John of Jerusalem; ye handsome Church of this place has all sash-Windows. Mallow is a considerable large Market-Town, chiefly of one Street, it's Church a late good building. We came to ye Town over a fair stone-arch'd bridge, under which ye Blackwater, We had met with this River before. The Barracks are within ye Castle-Inclosure, ye front of this Castle is very large & grand, tho' It be only now a bare Shell. Quaere, whether it was not ye Duke of Ormond's? Annabel-house, just out of ye town, belongs to Clayton, one of ye King's Pages. There is a Spaw behind ye Town, which is very like That at Bristol, being warm; 'tis cover'd-over, & much resorted-to in a Morning.