Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . en into considerable volume by the rills andstreams from hills and glens, joins the Lee a mile and a half below. The towndates its origin to the eariiest Anglo-Norman period when a castle was built toguard the ford over the river, and the pass leading to the remote parts of Corkand Kerry. The outworks having disappeared, the castle adjoining the town (seep. 429) now
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . en into considerable volume by the rills andstreams from hills and glens, joins the Lee a mile and a half below. The towndates its origin to the eariiest Anglo-Norman period when a castle was built toguard the ford over the river, and the pass leading to the remote parts of Corkand Kerry. The outworks having disappeared, the castle adjoining the town (seep. 429) now consists of the keep, a huge mass densely covered with ivy whichpresents a striking appearance. In the troubles of 1641 it was burned : and inthe Williamite war it was occupied alternately by the Jacobites and the followersof Dutch Will. Since that time it has continued habitable, a fate, as Windelesays, shared by few similar piles in the south of Ireland. In Macroom Castle,according to tradition, was born the famous Admiral, William Penn, in whosehonor Pennsylvania was named when the Charter was conferred by Charies his son the illustrious Quaker Colonizer. Although the town is doubtless r - 444 PICTURESQUE Shtp pool Castle coeval with the Castle, the name of the place Macroom (^MagJi-crom), the plainof Crom, the supreme idol of the ancient Irish, indicates its pre-Christian origin. When the bards survived the fall of^ - — Druidism, Macroom was for ages their _ headquarters in West Munster, and the bardic conventions were held here,which it is claimed had a very bene-ficial effect over the adjacent previously stated, up to the eight-eenth century, there were but tworoads to the Capital of Munster ; the=^ southern one, communicating with theold and historical town and harborof Kinsale. The leisurely tourist canreach this point by turning southwardfrom Kilcrea, or directly from Cork,by Ballinhassig. It is about eighteen miles from the city, and the
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