This is the most daring, imaginative and innovative study of the Irish town undertaken to date. In this book, Dr. Pat musters a formidable array of talents - cartographic, historical, geographical & literary - and he fuses these into an incomparable study of his hometown. 

In this arduous & ambitious but eminently accessible work, thirty essays of some 2,000 words are keyed into thirty large scale (A3) maps of Newcastle West, Co. Limerick.

This is a warm and committed study by the native son of an Irish provincial town. 

O'Connor makes his own of Newcastle West, no less assuredly it makes its own of him!