Inside the story
Meet Murtagh Murdock
A wealthy farmer and money-lender known locally as a gombeen man. He acquires Phelim Joyce's farm through oppressive financial dealings, searches obsessively for the supposed lost treasure of Knockcalltecrore, and threatens those who oppose him.
On the page
A middle-aged man with a hard, dark-looking face and a heavy black jaw. He wears severe, practical late-Victorian country clothes.
