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Kilderry and the moon-bog

Kilderry is the fictional Irish locality in The Moon-Bog, centered on Denys Barry’s ancestral castle, a nearby village and a marsh with an island ruin. Barry’s plan to drain the bog empties the village of its original inhabitants and leads to the disappearance of his replacement household. The story locates it in County Meath but supplies no reliable real-world site to visit.

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Literature

The Moon-Bog

The Moon-Bog concerns Denys Barry’s plan to drain a marsh beside his restored ancestral castle at Kilderry, Ireland. Local people leave rather than assist, while replacement workers begin experiencing unexplained exhaustion and dreams. An American visitor witnesses nocturnal processions and an apparent revival of the bog’s older sacred history before Barry and his household disappear.

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