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Mallow (/ ˈ m æ l oʊ /; Irish: Mala [3]) is a town in County Cork, Ireland, approximately thirty-five kilometres north of Cork. Mallow is in a townland and civil parish of the same name, in the barony of Fermoy. [3] It is the administrative centre of north County Cork, and the Northern Divisional Offices of Cork County Council are located in ...
Thought a fairy tree in both Ireland and Wales, wood from the hazel was sacred to poets and was thus a taboo fuel on any hearth. Heralds carried hazel wands as badges of office. Witches' wands are often made of hazel, as are divining rods, used to find underground water. In Cornwall the hazel was used in the millpreve, the magical adder stones ...
Corylus avellana, the common hazel, is a species of flowering plant in the birch family Betulaceae. The shrubs usually grow 3–8 metres (10–26 feet) tall. The nut is round, in contrast to the longer filbert nut. Common hazel is native to Europe and Western Asia. The species is mainly cultivated for its nuts.
Annabella is a townland near Mallow, County Cork in Ireland. [1] [2] Some sources give the townland's Irish name as Eanach-bile, and translate it as "marsh of the sacred tree [bile]". [3] Other sources dispute this derivation as a back-formed neologism. [N 1] Mallow railway station (built c.1845) lies within Annabella townland. [4]
Making the tree quite durable to urban conditions and helps maintain a symmetrical crown which landscape architects love so much. [ 2 ] The flowers bloom in early spring before the leaves, and are unisexual , with single-sex catkins ; the male pale yellow and 5–10 cm long, the female very small and largely concealed in the buds, with only the ...
People from Mallow, County Cork (1 C, 45 P) Pages in category "Mallow, County Cork" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Corylus americana, the American hazelnut [3] or American hazel, [4] is a species of deciduous shrub in the genus Corylus, native to the eastern and central United States and extreme southern parts of eastern and central Canada.
Mallow, Alberta, a locality in Alberta, Canada; Mallow, County Cork, a town in the Republic of Ireland . Mallow (Parliament of Ireland constituency), 1613–1800 Mallow (UK Parliament constituency), 1801–1885