Other / Unknown · Kinsale, Munster · 1873
IRE-1873ID case-3e173d6474Added to map Nov 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Jul 1873to the month
- Where
- Kinsale, Munsterto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a strange animal killed in an empty house near Kinsale was responsible for sheep depredations, described as having brown shaggy hair and a white streak on its head.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Kinsale, County Cork, Munster, Éire / Ireland
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1873
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-3e173d6474
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 1 of Essex County herald (Guildhall, Vt.), July 5, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-07-05
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.