Haunted Places in Northern Ireland
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Northern Ireland packs an unusual amount of haunted ground into a small place. Grand country houses, garrison towns, coastal ruins and the Antrim glens each carry their own legends, and the folklore tradition here is strong enough that many were written down long before anyone went looking for ghosts. This list of haunted places in Northern Ireland covers the castles, hotels and back roads that locals still talk about.
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Ruins Above the Sea: Haunted Dunluce Castle and Its Lost Town
Basalt, salt air and a bridge over a drop: the setting does most of the work when people talk about haunted Dunluce Castle. The…
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Not a Castle at All: Haunted Hillsborough Castle, County Down
Ask around for haunted Hillsborough Castle and what you get back is mostly atmosphere: candlelit rooms, long corridors, a name with the word castle…
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Burnt Twice on Lough Neagh: Shane’s Castle Antrim
Shane’s Castle Antrim is a place defined by fire. The ruin stands on the north-east shores of Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland, and its…
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Springhill House Ghost: Olivia and the Colonel’s Last Year
Ask anyone in mid-Ulster about the Springhill House ghost and one name comes back: Olivia Lenox-Conyngham, second wife of a colonel who took his…
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A Barrel Organ, an 1898 Fire and No Ghost: the Argory Armagh
Search the Argory Armagh for a haunting and you come up short. What you find instead is one of the most intact country houses…