Portlaw: Ireland’s First Model Industrial Town

Portlaw is an architectural legacy of the Malcomson Cotton Mill era.  It began with Quaker David Malcomson establishing the mill in Portlaw in 1825.  It would become one of the largest mills in the British Isles and along with architect John Skipton Mulvany, Malcomson would transform the topography of Portlaw forever [1]. View of Cotton Mill …