School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha

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   in the rebellion of 1641. the huge square keep once covered with the most beautiful variegated ivy, is all that remains of the original structure. Admiral Sir William Penn father of the founder of Pennsylvania was born there. Dean Swift, in his visit to the South of Ireland, was much pleased with the place and its surroundings, Macroom, the centre of the sporting gentry of Muskerry for which this baronry was always famous, can also boast of a band of poets racy of the soil.
   In 1774, the poems of John Connolly, a Macroom man, were published in Cork. He thus celebrates the praises of his native town.
   Whoever means to shake off gloom
   let him repair to sweet Macroom
   For here his cares he will entomb
   And think no more of sorrow.

   Let Mallow yield to gay Macroom
   For here we know not care nor gloom
   Here Nature weans perpetual bloom

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peggy Lynch

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Masseytown, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Susie Kelleher

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coolyhane, Co. Cork