Mystery of ‘footprints’ linked to murder

For almost a century, the strange phenomenon of “the footprints” has fascinated people in the Duhallow area of north-west Cork and beyond.

How the imprint of what looks like two adult feet could remain on the earth for so long, despite reported attempts to remove it over the years, has intrigued generations.

Though “the footprints” did not appear until around 1920 in the townland of Glenamuckla, near Newmarket, they are linked in folk memory to a murder during the Land War in the area 32 years previously.