William Penn of Macroom Castle, Ireland On the main route from Cork to Killarney, Ireland there is a town that many Pennsylvanians may know little about, the town of Macroom, the boyhood home of William Penn. Its a market town in County Cork at the foot of the mountains. The rivers Lee and Sullane flow through the area. Macroom's name in Irish Gaelic means "meeting place of the God Crom," "crooked oak" or "crooked and bloody."
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