Wexford Folk Tales

Wexford Folk Tales gathers traditional stories from across County Wexford, bringing together accounts of witches, mermaids, grave robbing and buried treasure. The collection also includes tales of lurechan mischief, dangerous love potions and six supposed antichrists arriving in Wexford.

Among its more striking stories is the account of a 140-year-old man who died a premature death. Brendan Nolan presents these narratives as part of Wexford’s local storytelling tradition, where claims of supernatural encounters sit alongside tales of deception, danger and folklore creatures. Twenty line drawings accompany the text, adding visual glimpses of the people, places and incidents preserved in these county-wide stories.