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Anyone been to hellfire club at night?

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    #92
    Doyler92
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    Good question. I'd be very interested in taking part now aswell.


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    #93
    Loughc
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    Doyler92 wrote: »
    Good question. I'd be very interested in taking part now aswell.


    Me too.


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    #94
    HellFireClub
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    Can we come up with a possy for this?!? How about next weekend, Fri or Sat night weather permitting?


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    #95
    Doyler92
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    We should try and get an outing to it.

    Like sticky a new thread and people can say whether they are up for it or not.

    I'm dying for it anyways.


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    #96
    HellFireClub
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    Maybe next weekend if the weather is a bit better. Pity we haven't a more regular ghost hunting meetup on the forum, I'd love to do an overnight in this venue, camp outside it, light a fire, etc.


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    #97
    HellFireClub
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    Looks like winter will be back with us before this ever get's done, c'mon folks!!!


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    #98
    HellFireClub
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    Doyler92 wrote: »
    We should try and get an outing to it.

    Like sticky a new thread and people can say whether they are up for it or not.

    I'm dying for it anyways.

    Anyone up for this, we seem to be getting a bit of a break in the ****ty weather!


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    #99
    Riamfada
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    Im up for this. If its organised I will cbe there. Sort of an "if you build it they will come" sort of situation. But personally I think it should be preceded by a meet up a pub.

    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.


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    #100
    IrishAm
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    Such is the nature of the internet, people will agree to go and either forget about it or back out at the last minute.


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    #101
    HellFireClub
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    Riamfada wrote: »
    Im up for this. If its organised I will cbe there. Sort of an "if you build it they will come" sort of situation. But personally I think it should be preceded by a meet up a pub.

    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.

    Ok, I hear ya, 'cos I know you were left sitting in the pub car park last time, (I was down in the HFC car park waiting for the gang!)...

    I think a better pub to meet in for a meetup would be the Old Mill there in Firhouse, it's nearer to the HFC (only 2 minutes drive down the back road) and is a bit easier to get to for those not driving?


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    #102
    Riamfada
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    The Old Mill is good for me


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    #103
    HellFireClub
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    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?


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    #104
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    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


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    #105
    HellFireClub
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    When we doin this?!?


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    #106
    Riamfada
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    there is no such thing as swingers

    That could be anything in those photos.


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    #107
    HellFireClub
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hzRPV1sBXA


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    #108
    NegativeCreep
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    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.


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    #109
    filmbuffboy
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    if this place wasnt on the other side of the country id go for a visit tomorrow :D


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    #110
    HellFireClub
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    filmbuffboy wrote: »
    if this place wasnt on the other side of the country id go for a visit tomorrow :D

    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!


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    #111
    filmbuffboy
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    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! :(


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    #112
    Joey the lips
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    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.


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    #113
    HellFireClub
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    filmbuffboy wrote: »
    if i lived closer id join ya! :(

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


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    #114
    filmbuffboy
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    HellFireClub wrote: »
    If you had a vagina I'd collect ye! :D:D:D

    lol the clue is in my username!


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    #115
    HellFireClub
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    filmbuffboy wrote: »
    lol the clue is in my username!

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


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    #116
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
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    I'm up for this lads,

    lets set a date and time and make ourselfs there !


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    #117
    Pablo Sanchez
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    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2012/0810/1224321872970.html

    From todays Irish Times.


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    #118
    Maudi
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    HellFireClub wrote: »
    filmbuffboy wrote: »
    if this place wasnt on the other side of the country id go for a visit tomorrow :D

    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.


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    #119
    HellFireClub
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    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


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    #120
    Maudi
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    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.


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    #121
    HellFireClub
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    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.


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