Quinalow

Quinalow is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.

Quinalow is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census the locality of Quinalow had a population of 173 people.

The Daly brothers established the first butter-and-cheese factory on the Darling Downs in 1889 at Quinalow. The district was named Quinalow by the Daly brothers who named it after Catholic Bishop James Quinn who encouraged Irish Catholics suffering due to the potato famine to immigrate and settle in the area. The -alow comes from the Irish word lough meaning a brook or stream.Quinalow Provisional School opened on 6 May 1901, with the original school building being completed on 26 February 1901 at a cost of 122 pound 17 shillings. On 1 January 1909 it became Quinalow State School. In 1965 the school offered secondary schooling. In 1985 a pre-school was added.In August 1979 the original school building (built in 1901) was relocated to Daly Street (27.1111°S 151.6236°E? / -27.1111; 151.6236? (Quinalow Library)), where it was used as a preschool until the new preschool building was built at the school. The original school building was then opened in March 1984 as Quinalow Library. It underwent a major refurbishment in 2014.Quinalow was affected by the 2010–2011 Queensland floods. Rising floodwaters isolated the town, surrounding the Quinalow pub. Myall Creek was not thought to have risen as high as it did in the 1981 flood.In the 2011 census, Quinalow had a population of 411.In the 2016 census the locality of Quinalow had a population of 173 people.