{"id":2125,"date":"2014-09-14T20:43:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T20:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technogypsie.com\/faerie\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2014-09-14T20:43:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T20:43:43","slug":"irishcentrals-irelands-top-ten-haunted-destinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/irishcentrals-irelands-top-ten-haunted-destinations\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span class=\"name byline-separator\">Cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/roots\/history\/Irelands-top-ten-haunted-destinations-PHOTOS.html?page=1\">http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/roots\/history\/Irelands-top-ten-haunted-destinations-PHOTOS.html?page=1 <\/a><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span class=\"name byline-separator\">Kayla Hertz <\/span><span class=\"author-twitter byline-separator\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/irishcentral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@irishcentral<\/a> <\/span><span class=\"metadata byline-separator\">August 15,2014<\/span> <span class=\"metadata\">12:45 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-holder article-holder\">\n<div class=\"img-box main-article-image-box\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/MI-malahide-castle.jpg\" alt=\"\\&quot;With\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">With his last breaths, Puck the jester swore he would forever haunt Malahide Castle in Malahide, Co. Dublin.<span class=\"photocredit\">Photo by: Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>With a long, long history rife with wars and massacres, Irish land is bound to have a few ghosts here and there. That is, assuming you\u0092re a believer in the paranormal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"desktop-article-ad tablet-article-ad w469\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1530442700926220\" data-ad-slot=\"2635738348\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\"><ins id=\"aswift_0_expand\"><ins id=\"aswift_0_anchor\"><iframe id=\"aswift_0\" name=\"aswift_0\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<p>From castles to beaches, here\u0092s a list of our top 10 supernatural destinations in Ireland. Spanning the country, these destinations are supposedly haunted by ghosts of all sorts \u0096 soldiers, brides, court jesters and more.<br \/>\n1. Ross Castle<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/ft5s-ross-castle.jpg?resize=516%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"288\" \/><br \/>\nOn the edge of Lough Lane in Killarney, Co. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/roots\/genealogy\/Five-things-you-didnt-know-about-your-Kerry-ancestors.html\">Kerry<\/a>, this five bedroom stone castle built in 1536 is currently run as a B&amp;B. Visitors have reported supernatural activity both in and out of the castle: apparently every May Day for hundreds of years, a Medieval knight named O\u0092Donoghue rides along Lough Lane past the castle, accompanied by a group of spirits who play music behind him. Inside the castle, visitors have reported waking up in the middle of the night to sounds of screams or doors repeatedly opening and slamming shut. One of the spirits is believed to be Myles \u0091the Slasher\u0092 O\u0092Reilly, an Irish folk hero who spend his last night in Ross Castle before dying in battle in 1644.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n2. Kilmainham Gaol<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/FT5s-kilmainham-gaol.jpg?resize=516%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"288\" \/><br \/>\nFamous for its political prisoners or Easter Rising leaders like Padraig Pearse, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/roots\/history\/First-photograph-of-James-Connolly-taken-before-his-1916-execution-is-published.html\">James Connolly<\/a>, Charles Parnell, Eamon de Valera and others, Kilmainham Gaol is supposedly full to the brim with spirits. Many died (some executed) in the prison, which is now a popular museum. Not only are there ghosts of former inmates floating about, but apparently there are plenty of prison warden spirits, who are of the malevolent sort.<br \/>\n3. Lough Sheelin<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/ft5s-lough-sheelin.jpg?resize=516%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"288\" \/><br \/>\nA limestone freshwater lough between counties Westmeath, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/news\/irishvoice\/Meath-They-cant-lace-Dublins-boots.html\">Meath<\/a> and Cavan, Lough Sheelin is said to take a life every seven years. You can ask the Local Civil Defense Volunteers who\u0092ve gone out to fetch the bodies from the lake on a few occasions. Sabrina is a ghost that\u0092s well known in the area \u0096 story goes her lover drowned while the two were crossing the river as they were eloping. She still hangs around in search of her lover, and visitors of the nearby Ross Castle (#1) have reportedly had close encounters with her.<br \/>\n4. Malahide Castle<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/ft5s-malahide-castle.jpg?resize=516%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"288\" \/><br \/>\nKing Henry II of England built Malahide castle for his dear friend Sir Richard Talbot in Malahide, Co. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/news\/American-air-rage-lawyer-arrested-outside-US-embassy-Dublin.html\">Dublin<\/a> in 1185. One of the oldest castles in Ireland, Malahide castle is apparently haunted by at least five ghosts: Walter Hussey, Miles Corbett, Lord Chief Justice and his wife Maud Plunkett, but most notably the castle\u0092s jester, Puck of Malahide. Word got out that Puck had fallen in love with one of the prisoners, Lady Elenora Fitzgerald, and within days he was found mysteriously stabbed to death outside the castle. As the story goes, with his last dying breath, Puck made a promise that he\u0092d haunt the castle &#8211; apparently he stood by it. There have been quite a few sightings of the jester\u0092s ghost, and he often appears in photographs. When the castle was being sold in 1979, there were several reports by potential buyers of the jester\u0092s spirit roaming about.<br \/>\n5. Charles Fort<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/ft5s-charles-fort.jpg?resize=516%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"288\" \/><br \/>\nA wedding and three funerals: the story of Charles Fort (near Kinsale) is quite the tragedy. It\u0092s famously haunted by recent bride Wilful Warrender \u0096 she flung herself to her death from the fort wall after her groom was killed on the night of their wedding. To make matters worse, her father is the one who shot him: during wartime, he was under the impression that her husband was an intruder. Grief stricken by his daughter\u0092s suicide, he shot himself. Warrender is called \u0093the White Lady\u0094 by locals because whenever she\u0092s sighted, she\u0092s in her wedding dress. She\u0092s often found by children as she wanders around the town of Kinsale where she grew up, and she gives them a wave. Usually she\u0092s quite friendly, but there have been reports of people in the fort being pushed down the stairs by her spirit.<br \/>\n6. D\u00fan an \u00d3ir<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/ft5s-dun-an-oir.jpg?resize=516%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"288\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pagination-container\">\n<div class=\"img-box main-article-image-box\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/MI-malahide-castle.jpg\" alt=\"\\&quot;With\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">With his last breaths, Puck the jester swore he would forever haunt Malahide Castle in Malahide, Co. Dublin.<span class=\"photocredit\">Photo by: Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Dingle Peninsula, one of the most picturesque places in Ireland, actually contains quite a lot of history, and apparently some ghosts as well. 1580 had the Siege of Smerwick: a Spanish force of about 400 soldiers (close allies to the Irish) was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/roots\/history\/When-the-Spanish-sailed-to-try-and-free-Ireland-from-the-British.html\">defending Ireland against the British<\/a> during what was the Second Desmond Rebellion. They retreated to D\u00fan an \u00d3ir on the Dingle Peninsula, and were then besieged by the English army who massacred the whole fleet and left them ashore without burial. Today, Dingle locals and visitors claim to hear Spanish cries, see occasional skeletal remains on shore or in the ocean, and smell the stench of rotting flesh coming in with the gusts of wind.<br \/>\n7. Belfast\u0092s Grand Opera house<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/ft5s-grand-opera-house.jpg?resize=516%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"288\" \/><br \/>\nIt\u0092s like the Phantom of the Opera, but in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/news\/Pilots-false-arm-falls-off-during-tough-Belfast-landing.html\">Belfast<\/a>. Though the Grand Opera House has faced brilliant restoration in recent years, plenty of actors and stagehands have made claims of seeing a face staring at them through an outside window, a figure wearing a long black robe, and also a strong sense of being followed if alone on stage. Just ask the Northern Ireland Paranormal Research Association, who\u0092ve made direct contact with deceased stagehands George and Harry, as well as an unnamed cleaner and another unnamed electrician.<br \/>\n8. Thoor Ballylee<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/ft5s-thoor.jpg?resize=516%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"288\" \/><br \/>\nA fortified 14th century Irish-Norman tower house, Thoor Ballylee once belonged to Lady Augusta Gregory, life long friend of poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/roots\/history\/no-greater-love-five-irish-love-stories-that-changed-history-139233133-237748601.html\">W.B. Yeats<\/a>. She passed it onto the famous poet, and he spent many a summer living and writing in the peaceful tower of rural Galway. Yeats himself believed it to be haunted by a young Anglo-Normal soldier; after Yeats\u0092s death, the tower was turned into a museum, the curator of which felt a spirit as well. He had plenty accounts of an apparition walking up and down the stairs, and his pet dog seemed to feel it too. In 1989, a visitor asked if he could photograph Yeats\u0092s old sitting room, and the developed photograph contains a clear human figure (albeit blurry and black) in the picture that hadn\u0092t been in the room at the time.<br \/>\n9. Castle Leslie<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/ft5s-castle-leslie.jpg?resize=516%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"288\" \/><br \/>\nThough today\u0092s connotations of Castle Leslie in Co. Monaghan are along the lines of a modern spa or hotel or fancy cooking school, it\u0092s apparently pretty haunted. Each room is or has been home to an apparition, the most famous of which is the Red Room, where soldier Norman Leslie\u0092s ghost appeared in front of his mother Lady Marjorie in 1914 just a few weeks after he\u0092d been killed in battle in France. She recalled him appearing in a cloud of light, sifting through a pile of letters. When she addressed him, he smiled at her and then faded away.<br \/>\n10. Saint Michan\u0092s Church in Dublin<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/ft5s-saint-michan.jpg?resize=516%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"288\" \/><br \/>\nIf you start to hear faint whispers upon entering Saint Michan\u0092s Church in Dublin, they\u0092re probably coming from the mummies in the crypt below. Many of Dublin\u0092s most influential families between the 17 and 19 centuries are interred there, as well as a famous thief and nun, the Shears brothers who were executed by the British in 1798, and many more. There have been some visitor accounts of \u0091whispering mummies\u0092 in the crypt \u0096 recently, a woman peered into an unexcavated section and suddenly became aware of many voices around her. \u0093A sort of whispering, murmuring noise, but I couldn\u0092t make out any of the words,\u0094 she said. She also felt the passageway becoming rather tight, like there were many people suddenly surrounding her.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted from http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/roots\/history\/Irelands-top-ten-haunted-destinations-PHOTOS.html?page=1 Kayla Hertz @irishcentral August 15,2014 12:45 PM With his last breaths, Puck the jester swore he would forever haunt Malahide Castle in Malahide, Co. Dublin.Photo by: Wikimedia Commons With a long, long history rife with wars and massacres, Irish land is bound to have a few ghosts here and there. 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