Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Macroom. You may be able to find further references to Macroom in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Macroom	market town and parish with railway station	Bartholomew
MACROOM, or MACROMP	a market and post-town, and a parish	Lewis:Ireland

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Macroom.

Place	Type of entry	Source
MASSYTOWN	a village	Lewis:Ireland

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Macroom within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Arthur Young	21st to 30th September 1776: Cork and Kerry	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer