M. C. Widdowson

Explore the World of The Truth of Sheemore

Every place, document and character in The Truth of Sheemore begins with surviving historical evidence. Explore the people, places and records behind the novel.

Before Sheemore
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Meet Robert Keon

Attorney • Husband • Father

Discover the man whose life was remembered for one fatal morning on Sheemore Hill.

Carrick-on-Shannon

Visit Carrick-on-Shannon

Explore the town, river and landscape that inspired the novel.

Trial documents

Inside the Archive

Original trial records, newspaper reports, maps and family papers.

Sheemore Hill

Walk Sheemore Hill

Stand where the events of that October morning unfolded.

Cover of The Truth of Sheemore by M. C. Widdowson

The Forgotten Histories · Book One

The Truth
of Sheemore

A forgotten life. A fatal morning. A verdict that may not have told the whole story.

The Truth of Sheemore is inspired by the surviving record of an eighteenth-century Irish murder trial. Court testimony, newspaper reports, family history and the landscape of County Leitrim reveal the lives caught in a tragedy that unfolded on Sheemore Hill in October 1786.

The novel looks beyond the verdict, reconstructing the people behind the official record and asking how much of the truth was ever heard.

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