Macroom
Macroom is a market town in County Cork, southwest Ireland. It stands halfway between Cork and Killarney at a point where the fertile Lee valley gives way to rugged uplands, and the road starts its climb over to County Kerry.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Carrigaphooca Stone Circle.
Carrigaphooca Stone Circle
Archaeological site
Carrigaphooca Stone Circle is a stone circle and National Monument located in County Cork, Ireland. It is situated 4.4 km west of Macroom, immediately east of Carrigaphooca Castle, north of the N22, and near the confluence of the River Sullane and River Foherish. Carrigaphooca Stone Circle is situated 4½ km west of Macroom.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clondrohid.
Clondrohid
Locality
Photo: Neville Goodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clondrohid is a village and civil parish in County Cork, Ireland, four miles north of Macroom. As of the 2022 census, the population of the village was recorded as 180, down slightly from 188 people as of the 2011 census. Clondrohid is situated 5 km northwest of Macroom.
Macroom
- Type: Town with 4,100 residents
- Description: town in County Cork, Ireland
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.905° or 51° 54′ 18″ northLongitude
-8.9599° or 8° 57′ 36″ westPopulation
4,100Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE MCROpen location code
9C3HW23R+X2OpenStreetMap ID
node 52250948OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Macroom” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Macroom”
- Bulgarian: “Макрум”
- Catalan: “Macroom”
- Cebuano: “Macroom”
- Chinese: “馬克隆”
- Chinese: “马克隆”
- Danish: “Macroom”
- Dutch: “Macroom”
- French: “Macroom”
- German: “Macroom”
- Indonesian: “Macroom”
- Indonesian: “Maigh Chromtha”
- Irish: “Maigh Chromtha”
- Italian: “Macroom”
- Japanese: “マクルーム”
- Lithuanian: “Makrumas”
- Polish: “Macroom”
- Russian: “Макрум”
- Slovenian: “Macroom”
- Spanish: “Macroom”
- Swedish: “Macroom”
- Ukrainian: “Макрум”
- Urdu: “میکروم”
- Welsh: “Macroom”
- Welsh: “Maigh Chromtha”
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