Their annual book fair attracts treasure hunters from near and far.

Now West Cork’s Inanna Rare Books has opened a brand new location in Skibbereen, taking over a historic building to create a special marketplace and meeting place for readers interested in art books.

Inanna Modern is the bookshop’s new art department, housed in The Still Mill in Skibbereen.

The atmospheric building is now stocked to the hilt with thousands of beautiful books on topics such as architecture, design, and illustration as well as rare maps, modern art, and sculpture.

For browsers and bookworms, it’s heaven; there’s even a special department on Irish romantic illustration.

Word has it there’s another new department in the works too; a third shop offering books on philosophy, psychology, history, literature, and medicine will open soon in yet another historic location in the town – set to be announced soon.

To mark the opening at The Still Mill, Inanna has launched a luxury reprint of one of the rarest publications in Irish Topography, The Compleat Irish Traveller.

“This book is rare because of the numerous illustrations which show some of the earliest Maps of County Cork, Kerry, and Waterford but also include one of the earliest romantic engravings of Cork City with Shandon.” co-owner and book collector Holger Smyth told us.

“The reprint allows us to see some of the earliest pictures of Cork City, Kinsale, Dungarvan, and Youghal and the rare maps of County Cork and Kerry as well as a very rare plan of Cork City and even an illustration of the now-lost building of The Exchange, Cork’s foremost trading place in the 18th century for booksellers, bookbinders, and butter.”

Inanna Rare Books – Modern Art Department is open from Monday to Friday between 2pm and 6pm and Saturdays from 10am to 4pm in The Still Mill (P81 DY75), Skibbereen.