Tales of the Wicklow Hills

2,000 Years of History, Myth, Legend and Local Stories

• The naming of Baltinglass
• The melodies of Buchet's House
• Saint Kevin and Glendalough
• Fingal Rónáin, a 7th-century domestic tragedy
• Feagh McHugh O'Byrne, the last king of Wicklow
• Michael Dwyer, the last 1798 freedom fighter
• The hanging of John Moore
• Hempenstall, "The Walking Gallows"

And many more tales of history, myth, legend and folklore, and true (and partly or possibly true) local stories of hidden treasure, strokes, revenget, mystery, ghosts, saints and sinners, supernatural intervention, visitations from the Otherworld, cures, and the púcas of Redcross, Avoca and the Poulaphuca waterfall.