Comment by Rónán Gearóid Ó Domhnaill on October 31, 2013 at 2:44pm

I thought the hauntings stopped when the original structure was demolished circa 1870?

Comment by Gerry Regan on November 2, 2013 at 1:58pm

Can't speak to that, Ronan, but not sure spirits, such as they are, are attached to brick and mortar as much to place. I can't praise this narrative and video effort enough, Alannah. Thorougly enthralled by what you've written, stated, photographed and filmed, all of impressive quality!

Comment by Alannah Ryane on November 3, 2013 at 7:20pm

Thanks Gerry!  This was the quickest of 'quickie' phone vids but I had the experience so I had to post ...just made it on Halloween!   The 'mysterious stranger' story happened a century before the new house was built but it is used as a re-enactment in the 'ghost tour' no one buys that it's just fun.  The room they dressed up as the 'tapestry' room where Ann (the one who saw the devil) was locked up was awful I hated being in that room...they threw in some jibes at the end (always) about people never wanting to be in that room.  The locals know about this house as you heard Jack on the video say he was there when the bikers were using it and he told me that he went to the bar when it was a hotel but no one would stay there and it was rumoured that the staff would not clean the tapestry room.  I have even heard people say that the Sisters of Providence  or Rossminian nuns who owned the hall kept the tapestry room locked.  

I also had an experience in the 'chapel'.   The room the 'tour' took us to had been set up as a chapel by the nuns but I hated being in that room too although every room is so creepy it is like stepping into a derelict mansion from 1800's.  I asked what else the room was used for and they said a dining room or anything people who were living there could have used it for.  Then a woman spoke up and asked why the 'stations of the cross' were all damaged and vandalized and then I turned around and looked at the wall behind me and someone had carved all over them.  He said they usually don't talk about it during the day family tours but that during one of it's recent periods of abandonment they had found some kind of circle was being held in the 'chapel' and that is why the heads of the statues were missing.  I have seen reports since researching the hall for this story that many people over many years have felt the same way in those rooms and the long hall you have to go through from the front of the house to the back where the new entrance is to leave the tour.  The servant's stairs come down in the centre of this very long hall and everyone feels how creepy it is.  Regardless I have never been in any building like this before but I kept thinking about all the battles that took place there in the original castle which I read about in the binders available in the cafe before the tour.  Still creeps me out..I told the tour guide to keep his 'SHIELDS UP"!

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