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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 269 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MACROOM , a See also:

market See also:town in the western See also:part of See also:county See also:Cork, See also:Ireland, on the See also:river Sullane, an affluent of the See also:Lee, 242 M. W. of Cork by the Cork & Macroom railway, of which it is the ter-minus. Pop. (1901), 3016. Besides a See also:fine See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church, a See also:court See also:house and See also:barracks, Macroom possesses a modernized See also:castle, which is said to have been founded by See also:King See also:John, though it is more probably attributable to See also:Norman invaders. It was besieged more than once in the 17th See also:century, and is said to have been the birthplace of See also:Admiral See also:Sir See also:William See also:Penn, whose more famous son founded See also:Pennsylvania. Here some rebels of 1798 were executed and their heads exhibited on the spikes of the castle See also:gate. Macroom has See also:trade in See also:corn-milling, See also:leather-See also:work and See also:dairy produce, and is a See also:good centre for See also:salmon and See also:trout fishing. It is governed by an See also:urban See also:district See also:council.

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