or MACROOM, a town of Ireland, in the barony of Muskerry, county of Cork, and province of Munster, 142 miles from Dublin; it is situated amongst hills, in a dry gravelly limestone soil. This place is said to take its name from an old crooked oak, so called in Irish, which formerly grew here. The castle was first built in King John's time, soon after the English conquest (according to Sir Richard Cox), by the Carews; but others attribute it to the Daltons. It was repaired and beautified by Thague Macarty, who died in the year 1565, and was father to