Macroom

Macroom is a marketplace town in County Cork, Ireland which fashioned within the valley of the River Sullane, approximately halfway among Cork metropolis and Killarney. Its Irish Gaelic may additionally translate as "meeting region of fans of the god Crom or crooked oak, the latter a connection with a huge very well tree that reputedly grew inside the town-square for the duration of the reign of the English King John. Its populace has grown and receded over the centuries because it went via periods of battle, famine and workhouses, pressured emigration and intermittent prosperity.

In a 2011 census, the city location was recorded as 3,879 human beings. Evidence of the human activity inside the place survives from pre-history, in particular the many Iron Age burial monuments; the location is unusually wealthy with standing stones, dolmens and stone circles. Macroom seems to have been a centre for Bardic conventions and a base for the Druids of Munster. The first historical connection with Macroom dates from the 6th century, when the town land was known as Achad Dorbchon and held within the country of Muscraighe Mitine.