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Ardgroom
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Ardgroom () is a village on the Beara peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. Its name refers to two gravelly hills deposited by a glacier, Dromárd and Drombeg. It lies to the north west of Glenbeg Lough, overlooking the Kenmare River estuary. It sits between the coast and the Slieve Miskish Mountains. The village contains a shop, post office, a petrol station and "The Village Inn" pub.
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- Ardgroom
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- ga
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- Village
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- Ardgroom Stone Circle.jpg
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- "Ardgroom SW" ("Canfea") stone circle
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- Ireland
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- bottom
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- Location in Ireland
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- Ireland
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- Munster
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- County Cork
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- +0
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Wikidata facts
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- human settlement
- Official name
- Dhá Dhrom
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Cork
- Population
- 859
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Ardgroom Stone Circle.jpg
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- Ardgroom
- Irish Grid Reference
- V692557
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- Dhá Dhrom
- historic county
- County Cork
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Stone circle
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Ardgroom () is a village on the Beara peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. Its name refers to two gravelly hills deposited by a glacier, Dromárd and Drombeg. It lies to the north west of Glenbeg Lough, overlooking the Kenmare River estuary. It sits between the coast and the Slieve Miskish Mountains. The village contains a shop, post office, a petrol station and "The Village Inn" pub.
==Stone circle== Near the village lie a number of megalithic monuments. Signposted is the stone circle to be found to the east of the village at a distance of about 1 mile, off the old Kenmare road. It has the name "Canfea" but is normally called the "Ardgroom" stone circle. About 1 mile north east lie the remains of another stone circle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ardgroom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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