Louth features strongly in stunning new photography book

A new book of photography from photographer Rebecca Brownlie features a host of old forgotten buildings across the country including here in Louth including places like Louth Hall Castle near Tallanstown.

Abandoned Ireland, includes more than 150 haunting colour photographs of abandoned homes, schools, churches, prisons and more, from all across the island of Ireland.

Abandoned Ireland travels the length and breadth of   the island of Ireland visiting and documenting our forgotten buildings, highlighting their social importance, and bringing their stories back to life through the medium of photography. 

From Big Houses to humble cottages, schools to prisons, churches to dance halls, these buildings may now be abandoned, but they are far from empty. As a photographer, Brownlie’s instincts are remarkable. 

In the  seemingly ruined and mundane she finds diamonds in  the rough; her images of the ordinary ephemera of past  lives – dusty love letters, rusting spectacles, photographs  

Rebecca Brownlie’s photography reverberates with the echoes of our ancestors. Bursting  with engaging and often surprising details, each haunting photograph is an invitation to  immerse yourself in history, and an Ireland long gone.

The book is available in HARDBACK 240pp for €27.95/£24.99 at all good bookshops and online.