Anyone been to hellfire club at night?

Riamfada · 25-07-2012 1:28pm

The Old Mill is good for me

HellFireClub · 25-07-2012 3:41pm

Riamfada wrote: »

The Old Mill is good for me

One thing I've always wanted to do, (I've been up here more times than I've had hot dinners, hence the username!), was light a small campfire outside the place at night, to create a nice eerie kind of an atmosphere! I've been up here before so many times but the vast majority of times was in the day, have been up as well at night a handful of times, also at night when it was under heavy snow, which is amazing for some rarely seen scenery.

EDIT: What way is the weather looking this weekend?

25-07-2012 7:23pm

Riamfada wrote: »

If someone organises it Ill be there but Im not bothered considering the last time we tried this I sat outside the Merry Ploughboy in the dark and the rain like a lonely swinger.

HAHA, did you get any ? ? Just kidding, there is no such thing as swingers

HellFireClub · 30-07-2012 5:04pm

When we doin this?!?

Riamfada · 31-07-2012 12:28pm

Deleted User wrote: »

there is no such thing as swingers

That could be anything in those photos.

HellFireClub · 04-08-2012 2:44pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hzRPV1sBXA

NegativeCreep · 04-08-2012 3:32pm

Was there on a school trip a few times. The only room that scared me was the back room on the bottom floor. Just gave me a very weird feeling!

Anyone ever see the show "world's scariest places" or something to that effect, think it used to be on Living TV. Two girls stayed over in the place for an investigation. They didn't see much but that didn't stop them screaming constantly like little girls, very annoying :L Scariest thing about that show was the voice-over girl, she sounded demented!

Definitely wouldn't go up on my own at any time of the day, just in case. It's not the most inviting of places but I love it in a weird way all the same! It's a fascinating place.

filmbuffboy · 06-08-2012 2:41am

if this place wasnt on the other side of the country id go for a visit tomorrow

HellFireClub · 06-08-2012 4:08pm

filmbuffboy wrote: »

if this place wasnt on the other side of the country id go for a visit tomorrow

It's literally on my doorstep, am going for a wander up at dusk, seeing as nobody else is arsed making a scary trip out of it!

filmbuffboy · 06-08-2012 8:07pm

HellFireClub wrote: »

It's literally on my doorstep, am going for a wander up at dusk, seeing as nobody else is arsed making a scary trip out of it!

if i lived closer id join ya!

Joey the lips · 06-08-2012 8:14pm

No one believes me when i say this but a gang of us pitched tents about 25 years ago on the floors down stairs. We stayed there all night and slept grand. We are getting ready to lie down when a few lads came up with there girlfriends. When they saw us they laughed.

We were 12 and with the scouts. It must have been embarresing for them to hang around with us.

HellFireClub · 07-08-2012 12:11am

filmbuffboy wrote: »

if i lived closer id join ya!

If you had a vagina I'd collect ye!

:D:D

filmbuffboy · 07-08-2012 12:55am

HellFireClub wrote: »

If you had a vagina I'd collect ye! :D:D

lol the clue is in my username!

HellFireClub · 07-08-2012 2:36am

filmbuffboy wrote: »

lol the clue is in my username!

That's why I said, "if"!!! :rolleyes:

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 08-08-2012 3:03am

I'm up for this lads,

lets set a date and time and make ourselfs there !

Pablo Sanchez · 10-08-2012 8:12am

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2012/0810/1224321872970.html

From todays Irish Times.

Maudi · 27-08-2012 9:53pm

HellFireClub wrote: »

filmbuffboy wrote: »

if this place wasnt on the other side of the country id go for a visit tomorrow

It's literally on my doorstep, am going for a wander up at dusk, seeing as nobody else is arsed making a scary trip out of it!

Hi..just browsing around this site...have you guys made that trip to the h.f.c...meself and my bro have been up a few times its an interesting place...the brother reakons those few steps on the left as your looking at the building..were for mounting ones horse...anybody confirm?? and interestingly if one google maps the site the cairn that the stones came from (and the legend)is quiet clearly seen behind the building.

HellFireClub · 28-08-2012 8:00pm

Maudi wrote: »

Hi..just browsing around this site...have you guys made that trip to the h.f.c...meself and my bro have been up a few times its an interesting place...the brother reakons those few steps on the left as your looking at the building..were for mounting ones horse...anybody confirm?? and interestingly if one google maps the site the cairn that the stones came from (and the legend)is quiet clearly seen behind the building.

Yeah that's exactly what those steps were for. Also, if you look at the outside of the front of the building, you can see the marks of an old staircase that provided access to what was then a loft for servants in the roof of the building.

You can also find evidence of melted tar that at some stage ran down the front wall of the building. This melted tar that can be seen on some of the front of the building, has been there since an event in 1849, when protesters hauled barrels of tar up on top of the building, for the purposes of lighting a fire of protest, against the visit of Queen Elizabeth that year. The plan was for her to see the fire as her ship sailed into Dublin during the night...

There is a mention of the 1849 protest here, along with more interesting HFC info...

http://www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_irish/history_irish_hellfire.htm

Maudi · 28-08-2012 10:02pm

HellFireClub wrote: »

Maudi wrote: »

Hi..just browsing around this site...have you guys made that trip to the h.f.c...meself and my bro have been up a few times its an interesting place...the brother reakons those few steps on the left as your looking at the building..were for mounting ones horse...anybody confirm?? and interestingly if one google maps the site the cairn that the stones came from (and the legend)is quiet clearly seen behind the building.

Yeah that's exactly what those steps were for. Also, if you look at the outside of the front of the building, you can see the marks of an old staircase that provided access to what was then a loft for servants in the roof of the building.

You can also find evidence of melted tar that at some stage ran down the front wall of the building. This melted tar that can be seen on some of the front of the building, has been there since an event in 1849, when protesters hauled barrels of tar up on top of the building, for the purposes of lighting a fire of protest, against the visit of Queen Elizabeth that year. The plan was for her to see the fire as her ship sailed into Dublin during the night...

There is a mention of the 1849 protest here, along with more interesting HFC info...

http://www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_irish/history_irish_hellfire.htm

That must have been some blaze...can you imagine tar on fire on that roof!!looking out as it does over the city..what a sight it must have been...theres curious recesses in a couple of the rooms..what would you reakon they were for?statues maybe.

HellFireClub · 29-08-2012 9:31am

Maudi wrote: »

That must have been some blaze...can you imagine tar on fire on that roof!!looking out as it does over the city..what a sight it must have been...theres curious recesses in a couple of the rooms..what would you reakon they were for?statues maybe.

I often wondered what these were there for, still no idea! I remember stories as a young lad when I'd have been up there with the scouts, of those alcoves being for naked women to stand in to dance and entertain the drunken bucks in the HFC, but that was just kids imaginations I'd say, as the alcoves are too small for someone to stand in. A more likely explanation I'd say was that the alcoves were built for small statutes to be placed there, that's assuming that they are even part of the original build of the house and not something that was added by the OPW over the years...

Another thing that I meant to say in my last post, is if you go into the ruin and go up the stairs and into the room on the right at the top of the stairs, the wall that will be facing you as you enter that room, there is what appears to be some very old graffiti carved into that wall, I saw what appears to be a name and a reference to a year in the early 1800's, carved into the stone in small writing, barely legible but there none the less.

Diageio_Man · 06-09-2012 2:14am

The recess were prob for candle's, plus the curve would radiate the light out from them.

HellFireClub · 08-09-2012 12:22pm

I'm going for night time wander up here tonight, while the good weather is still with us...

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 08-09-2012 4:12pm

HellFireClub wrote: »

I'm going for night time wander up here tonight, while the good weather is still with us...

can't do tonight. in work until 5am :-(

would join you otherwise

Steodonn · 21-09-2012 2:21am

Was up there at about 3am over the summer. The view is amazing both at night and during the day. I was hoping for some paranormal experience but left disappointed

HellFireClub · 08-10-2012 6:34pm

Halloween just around the corner, nights much shorter now, this thread will just not die until it has been fulfilled haha!

Maudi · 08-10-2012 9:26pm

HellFireClub wrote: »

Halloween just around the corner, nights much shorter now, this thread will just not die until it has been fulfilled haha!

so when is the next trip up being organised?id be into it...dont fancy leavin me car in the carpark tho..wheres the next safest place to leave it.

psycho-hope · 21-10-2012 11:13pm

Maudi wrote: »

so when is the next trip up being organised?id be into it...dont fancy leavin me car in the carpark tho..wheres the next safest place to leave it.

drove up that way tonight and there were lots of cars parked out on the road tho tbh thats not the safest place either as its a blind bend coming down the hill from the glencree direction, very easy for someone to run into the back/side of your car if they were speeding/not paying attention

HellFireClub · 22-10-2012 2:04pm

Myself and my cousin took a wander up the other night, amazing view of the city from the summit...

UNENONE · 07-05-2014 7:02pm

My ma and da used to drive up that road up to the ruin often in the early morning in the 70's until they saw a group of people in white robes on the drive home on the side of the road singing hyms... thats not all one of them walked out infront of the car on purpose and my da nearly crashed swirving around him!!! that **** really freaks me out.. all that satan nonsence like there just mentlers in robes?

a friend of my ma's son also had a bad experience up there while camping up there as a dare with a few of his friends.. now i dont know if this is true but they were playing cards in there tent. they shuffled the cards and after one of them had a big black cross like charcoal drawn onto it. they got out of the tent and legged it to the bottom to get a taxi home and while on the way to the bottom the 5 of them heard screams coming from the woods alllll the way to the bottom...

if something like that happened to me i wouldnt be able to cope jesus christ!!

all my aunties and uncles have warned me never to go near the mountains and i NEVER will...

UNENONE · 07-05-2014 7:07pm

My ma and da used to drive up that road up to the ruin often in the early morning in the 70's until they saw a group of people in white robes on the drive home on the side of the road singing hyms... thats not all one of them walked out infront of the car on purpose and my da nearly crashed swirving around him!!! that **** really freaks me out.. all that satan nonsence like there just mentlers in robes?

a friend of my ma's son also had a bad experience up there while camping up there as a dare with a few of his friends.. now i dont know if this is true but they were playing cards in there tent. they shuffled the cards and after one of them had a big black cross like charcoal drawn onto it. they got out of the tent and legged it to the bottom to get a taxi home and while on the way to the bottom the 5 of them heard screams coming from the woods alllll the way to the bottom... now

dnekro69 · 27-07-2014 10:35am

been going camping up there since i was about 15 that's 20 odd years now
the 1st time myself and a load of friends went up ..just teenagers at the time..the place just oozed malevolence and evil..freezing cold..roof constantly leaking..impossible to light a fire in the hearth..and the dogs were attacking some unseen entity outside..which freaked us out! we all fell asleep exhausted..and i awoke to this unearthly breathing noise coming from downstairs..really sinister!
didn't go up again for a few years after that...
but i heard when the board of works were renovating the place they found skeletons of dwarfs under the hallway and gave them a christian burial and the hauntings all but subsided...
spent many a Halloween /birthday..new years eve up there since...rarely getany bad vibes?
just the best night times views you can get across dublin!!
great place to watch the sun rise over dublin bay early in the
morning %
one time a few years back a load of us had a party there and we ended up in the basement..which actually the 1st floor as there's another floor underneath filled in a long time ago to reinforce the foundations...wonder what's down there???
but basically i was lying on an airbed mattress and got too drunk to follow everyone back out to the campsite in the woods..so i got into my sleeping bag and fell asleep ish in the pitch dark of the club..very creepy on my own..was drifting in and out of sleep..and i could i could voices approaching in the distance...about midnight..a load of japanese tourists..started walking around starting upstairs with their torches...so i hid my face under the sleeping bag as they slowly started to approach the room i was in..when they shone the light on what must of looked like a giant bodybag in the basement..they all started screaming!!! and ran off down the hill...always wondered what story they told back in japan?

dnekro69 · 27-07-2014 10:57am

dazzlemoo wrote: »

Friend of mine posted this on Facebook recently.
What's that in the window?

that's the front window you can see straight thru from the back
was up there the other night and could see a couple standing there looking out over the city

cruais · 28-07-2014 9:37pm

We took a trip up there the other day for somewhere new for our small dog to walk.

She loved walking through the forrest and up the steep trail to the ruins of the hell fire club.

However, when we went to go inside it for a look, she dug all her paws into the ground and had to be dragged. We picked her up and held her to walk up the stairs, as we also noticed there was alot of glass on the ground.

Our normal, placid dog turned into a complete mess. She dug her head into my shoulder, started to shake and whimper. We left the building immediately as I always think animals can sense an awful lot.

I have never seen a dog to run as fast as she did back down the mountain. Something definitely spooked her.

Damian007 · 31-03-2015 8:41pm

I walk up at night in winter with a head torch and yes it spocky as Hell!

Ghost Team189 · 31-03-2015 11:06pm

I done a couple of investigations up there . Never got much bar a couple of k2 hits and a possible EVP . Does have a spooky feel but I think its more down to who you might bump into when up there . Great view of Dublin tho

Anyone been to hellfire club at night?

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