Episode 12- A land to die for- The Castletownroche murders- 1877

Send us Fan Mail In the summer of 1877, the quiet Cork village of Castletownroche was shattered by a crime so brutal it echoed far beyond its fields and farmsteads. What began as a dispute over land—an ordinary tension in a country shaped by ownership and survival—spiralled into a double murder that gripped Ireland and exposed the darker currents running beneath rural life. A Land to Die For revisits the Castletownroche murders, tracing the events, the people, and the legacy of a tragedy that still unsettles more than a century later.