Haunted Places in Ireland
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Ireland has one of the oldest continuous ghost storytelling traditions in Europe, and the buildings to match. Norman castles, famine-era workhouses, Georgian townhouses and abandoned gaols stand alongside a folklore that never treated the dead as entirely gone. This list of haunted places in Ireland covers the country houses, prisons and lonely roads where the stories are still told, and still believed by more people than will admit to it.
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Haunted Leap Castle: The Bloody Chapel of County Offaly
Ask anyone in the midlands to name a haunted Leap Castle rival and you will get a long pause. The tower stands on the…
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Haunted Kilmainham Gaol: The Prison Volunteers Saved
Ask about haunted Kilmainham Gaol and the answer you get is almost always about atmosphere rather than apparitions. The former County of Dublin Gaol…
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Loftus Hall Ghost: The Cloven Foot and the Tapestry Room
The Loftus Hall ghost story is the best known thing about a house that has plenty else to recommend it. On the Hook peninsula…
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Cloven Hooves and a Black Cat: Montpelier Hill’s Ruin
The roofless grey block on the summit ridge above Rathfarnham is the building most people mean when they say Hell Fire Club Dublin. It…
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Breakfast Before the Boyne: Haunted Malahide Castle
Ask around Malahide village and someone will tell you the castle up the road is the most haunted house in the county. Reputations like…
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Harriet and the Staircase: The Charleville Castle Ghost Story
Ask about the Charleville Castle ghost in Tullamore and one name comes back before any other: Harriet, a little girl said to have died…
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Duckett’s Grove Banshee: Carlow’s Burnt Gothic Ruin
Turrets, oriels and a solid granite viewing tower rise out of a field in County Carlow, roofless and hollow, and the Duckett’s Grove banshee…
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The Crusader Is Gone: Fire, Theft and St Michan’s Mummies
For most of the last century and a half, the St Michan’s mummies were one of the strangest things a visitor could see in…
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Bullet Holes and Wire Cages: Haunted Marsh’s Library, Dublin
Ask around Dublin’s ghost tours and Marsh’s Library gets named sooner or later: a dim upper gallery, chained readers’ cages, bullet holes in the…
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Sieges, Cromwell and a Seismograph: Haunted Rathfarnham Castle
People arrive at the gates looking for the haunted Rathfarnham Castle of internet listicles, and what they get instead is one of the best…