It might almost be called "The Bookshop at the End of the Universe", tucked away 1 km north of Forlorn Point and the Co Wexford fishing port of Kilmore Quay.
With its shelves stocked with second-hand volumes reflecting the eclectic taste of its proprietor, the Willowsand Bookshop is a browser's paradise.
Londoner Jean Jarvis describes her modest emporium as "a very general bookshop", and indeed one can come across there works on almost any subject.
Lord Beaverbrook's The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George sits beside Frank Morley's Literary Britain and Boswell's London Journal. One's eye is drawn from the French historian/geographer, Fernand Braudel's seminal work on The Mediterranean to Winston Churchill's The Island Race.
Iris Murdoch is here, and Racine, A.J.P. Taylor, Japanese writer Shusaku Endo, and J.D. Bernal. There is poetry and philosophy, biography, natural history and art. Special sections are dedicated to Irish-interest books and, given the shop's location, to the maritime.
One corner holds children's books, and those preoccupied with cookery, gardening, crafts, music and sport are also catered for. Even the European tourists who visit Kilmore Quay by yacht or car can find reading material: there is a small selection of German- and French-language books.
Jean Jarvis, who was widowed nine years ago, ran a small bookshop in Scotland before meeting and marrying Reg Jarvis, the curator of the light ship/museum, "The Guillemot", a permanent feature of Kilmore Quay harbour.
She opened her shop almost two years ago, and found that "as an incomer, it was a very good way to meet people". While she explored sources of good second-hand books, she augmented her stock by visiting "the town of books", Hay-on-Wye, on the border of England and Wales, which has no fewer than 36 bookshops.
She is someone who loves the company of books and the window they provide on to a world of human experience and knowledge. Even with limited shelf space, she aims to have as diverse a selection as possible: "I try to have at last half-a-dozen books on as many subjects as I can."
She gradually built up a selection of works on local history and would like to accumulate more. She enjoys the challenge of finding special-interest books on request, and seems to have a knack of turning up works on the most abstruse subjects.
Like a true bibliophile, she loves to see others absorbed by and appreciating the volumes on offer.
The Willowsand is an asset that every rural district should have, a sanctuary of the printed word and an antidote to the pervading television age.
It is open from Wednesday to Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and at other times by appointment, telephone (053) 29655.