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Ghosts of County Cork: Rescued Folklore from Ireland's southernmost county
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781036958244
Publisher: Bright Light
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ghosts of County Cork gathers eerie, intimate, and unsettling stories from Ireland's southernmost county, preserving a haunting inheritance once carried in oral tradition, local memory, newspapers, and folklore collections.
These tales lead the reader through lonely castles, storm-beaten islands, troubled graveyards, ruined houses, fairy-haunted fields, coastal roads, and rooms where the dead seem reluctant to leave. Here are restless spirits, strange warnings, supernatural visitations, haunted landscapes, and memories of fear passed quietly from one generation to the next.
But this is more than a collection of ghost stories. It is a portrait of County Cork as a place where landscape and memory are inseparable - where a ruined wall, a bend in the road, a candle in a window, or a light across the water may still carry the weight of an old belief. In these stories, ghosts are not merely figures of terror. They are signs of grief, guilt, love, injustice, unfinished business, and the deep human need to make meaning from the unknown.
Atmospheric, carefully retold, and rooted in the voices of ordinary people, Ghosts of County Cork invites readers into a world of whispers, warnings, shadows, and presences that refuse to be forgotten.
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