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Croom is associated with poets and poetry, and the Irish poet Seán Ó Tuama lived in, and is buried in Croom. In the mid-eighteenth century Croom was a meeting place for Gaelic poets. Croom is also credited with being the place of origination of the form of poetry known as a 'Limerick'.

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