MITCHELSTOWN, a market-town of Ireland, county of Cork, pleasantly situated on the slope of a hill near the Funcheon, 30 miles N.N.E. of Cork. The town consists of a large square and two main streets, and contains several well-built houses. It contains a handsome parish church, a large Roman Catholic chapel in the form of a cross, a national school and library, besides a charitable institution, called Mitchelstown College, endowed for the maintenance of twelve gentlemen and eighteen gentlewomen of the Protestant faith. The inhabitants trade in pigs, grain, and butter; while in the vicinity there are both flax and blanket factories. Near the town is the seat of the Earl of Kingstown, one of the finest mansions in Ireland, built in 1823. Pop. (1851) 3091.