MITCHELSTOWN  , a

market town of Co . Cork, Ireland, situated between the Kilworth and Galty Mountains, on a branch of the Great Southern & Western railway . Pop . (1901), 2146 . Here is the Protestant Kingston College, a home for poor gentlefolk, founded by James, Lord Kingston, in 176o . The seat of the earls of Kingston was built in 1823 . It is a massive castellated structure, among the finest of its kind in Ireland . The Mitchelstown limestone caves, exhibiting beautiful stalactite formations, are 6 m. distant in Co . Tipperary (q.v.) . On the 9th of September 1887 Mitchelstown was the scene of a riot in connexion with the Irish Nationalist " plan of campaign." The police were compelled to fire on the rioters, and two men were killed, after which the coroner's jury brought in a verdict of wilful murder against the police .