Haunted locations in Waterford. (For a compilation)

Waterfordborn

I realize that there are a whole bunch of threads about the topic, but it fascinates me to no end, even though I'm not sure what I believe. I'm thinking of compiling a collection of haunted sites in and around Waterford City and County, and would love some help!

So, I know about the house at Carrol's Cross (although, if anybody has anything to share, please do), thanks to years of my father telling me that it was haunted everytime we headed for Kerry or Cork.

And the Haunted Well in Tramore is one of my favourites, just because there are some wonderful photos of the location from the late 1800s, early 1900s, which just give it an eery atmosphere.

The Infirmary, whilst the current occupants seem to find it perfectly inhabitable, certainly has the potential to be deemed haunted.

And any locations close to the city walls, if ghosts DO exist, are definitely going to have a spirit presence, down to the fact that during the Waterford-New Ross feuds in Medieval times, and the Power/O'Driscoll attacks at around the same time, many soldiers would have lost their lives at the edges of the medieval city.

Living and growing up around the corner from Gracedieu, I'm also aware of the stories surrounding the house with the slated front (Once the home of a doctor or a bishop or someone important like that.)

AND finally, Butlerstown Castle and the Coach House are reputedly haunted, am I correct? I know the castle was used during the War of Independence and the Civil War, because my very own great-grandfather spent time there whilst fighting, and I've heard stories of rebels haunting the site.

So help me out in my mission, and share anything that might be of interest!

ex_infantry

seafield holiday homes in tramore, myself and several others have had bad experiences whilst renting there

blankAs

Seafield holiday homes? not somewhere i would have imagined as they are fairly recently build. whats going on down there?

Waterfordborn

Yes, Seafield isn't exactly somewhere I would think of as haunted... What happened?

ex_infantry

we lived there for about 2 months, always noticed even when we had a blazing fire goin that the place was always stone cold, the girlfriend at the time had a **** attack one day when i came home from work said she was upstairs and came outta our bedroom to bring stuff into the spare room and when she came out to go into our room again the door slammed in her face, there was no windows open at the time so it defo was'nt the wind blowing it closed,needless to say she would'nt stay in the place after that, a neighbour behind us told us that one night they could hear a bang in the kitchen area and the end of a sliced pan was thrown across the room, they did'nt stay there either after that and there daughter was always saying that "there was a man in the wardrobe that had a tail and feet like a horse" crazy i know but apparently there is a mass grave down that area from the seahorse disaster?

Waterfordborn

Wow, really? Hadn't heard anything of the likes until now.

Fascinating, thanks!

ex_infantry

Waterfordborn wrote: »

Wow, really? Hadn't heard anything of the likes until now.

Fascinating, thanks!

no bothers at all, i know of a few other people that used live in them after i did and always left them in a sudden but never discussed why they decided to move so suddenly

MOC88

Carrol's Cross house isn't haunted/suspicious/creepy...
story as much as I know is that its owned by a family ... stil in the are, all pensioners with no one younger than 70...
had a bit of money
the house was built as one of them was about to be married.
Don't know the details but the house was never moved in to either the bride died or moved to England.
The only people to be in that house were the owners who don't live there but do take fairly good care of it all the same.
It was creepy enough until I was around the back and knocked on the door a few times with friends when I was younger.
There's other places around I wouldn't go near with a hoover and the ghostbusters at my back

MOC88

ex_infantry wrote: »

no bothers at all, i know of a few other people that used live in them after i did and always left them in a sudden but never discussed why they decided to move so suddenly

I know someone who has a holiday home down there... no issues at all...
it must be a specific set of houses

endacl

Waterford has exactly the same number of haunted locations as everywhere else.

None.

MOC88

endacl wrote: »

Waterford has exactly the same number of haunted locations as everywhere else.

None.

Damn the widespread use of vacuum cleaners!!!

Waterfordborn

endacl wrote: »

Waterford has exactly the same number of haunted locations as everywhere else.

None.

Aha, thanks for that helpful insight ^.^

Waterfordborn

MOC88 wrote: »

Carrol's Cross house isn't haunted/suspicious/creepy...
story as much as I know is that its owned by a family ... stil in the are, all pensioners with no one younger than 70...
had a bit of money
the house was built as one of them was about to be married.
Don't know the details but the house was never moved in to either the bride died or moved to England.
The only people to be in that house were the owners who don't live there but do take fairly good care of it all the same.
It was creepy enough until I was around the back and knocked on the door a few times with friends when I was younger.
There's other places around I wouldn't go near with a hoover and the ghostbusters at my back

Oh, thanks c: See, I had always been told that no one would live in it, so i guess that's what gave it its creepy feeling. Now it just appears to be an ordinary house c:

endacl

Waterfordborn wrote: »

Aha, thanks for that helpful insight ^.^

No bother. Happy to help. ;-)

mrkdips

Any stories on the west side of the county. I am always intrigued but scared s**tless at the same time

Stayed in the hotel from the Shining film last summer in Etes Park Colorado. I was there for three nights and guess what - didn't sleep for three nights😄- such a scaredy cat. I wouldn't mind if I was on Tyneside of the hotel where there was activity but we weren't.

So any stories so about anywhere in west Waterford. Must put my thinking cap on too

looksee

Th holy well on the slip road down to the pier in Tramore is supposed to be haunted.

Rubberlegs

There is a house known as Mrs. Clem's, out near the Saleens. You can see it over the field to the right, if you are driving down the narrow lane to the car park there. I think it used to be a care home, though I could have that wrong. My daughter went out there with friends one evening, and took photos of the house. Some very weird stuff showed up in them, and her camera never worked properly again after. They legged it out of there after seeing a white, child like figure, that followed them down to hedge they got out through. It freaked them out completely:(

Finnbar01

73Cat wrote: »

There is a house known as Mrs. Clem's, out near the Saleens. You can see it over the field to the right, if you are driving down the narrow lane to the car park there. I think it used to be a care home, though I could have that wrong. My daughter went out there with friends one evening, and took photos of the house. Some very weird stuff showed up in them, and her camera never worked properly again after. They legged it out of there after seeing a white, child like figure, that followed them down to hedge they got out through. It freaked them out completely:(

Are you sure her and her friends weren't on acid?

Rubberlegs

Finnbar01 wrote: »

Are you sure her and her friends weren't on acid?

Very sure, yes :rolleyes:. I'm the first to be sceptical, as is my daughter. Her word is good enough for me...

MRnotlob606

i hear the wit campus on college street is haunted.

blankAs

how can the college st campus not be haunted? the college st campus was a magdalene laundry with an attached orphanage, it is not long closed down, woman and children were held there against their will and who will ever know what realy happend in that building....... and now they expect people to learn in that place! how people manage to go to college and manage to finish their course amazes me. talk to anyone who has attended college in that place and each one will have a story. i didnt attend there myself but spent time in the building for one reason or another, one day we went up to the very top floor where your not suppost to be going and the door was open. i stepped in to the room and couldnt go any further, it was the sadest, horriblist most terrifying place and the cots, warerobes, beds and other things were still in the room. i later heard that this room was completly cleared out and now just lies empty.

deisedave

blankAs wrote: »

how can the college st campus not be haunted? the college st campus was a magdalene laundry with an attached orphanage, it is not long closed down, woman and children were held there against their will and who will ever know what realy happend in that building....... and now they expect people to learn in that place! how people manage to go to college and manage to finish their course amazes me. talk to anyone who has attended college in that place and each one will have a story. i didnt attend there myself but spent time in the building for one reason or another, one day we went up to the very top floor where your not suppost to be going and the door was open. i stepped in to the room and couldnt go any further, it was the sadest, horriblist most terrifying place and the cots, warerobes, beds and other things were still in the room. i later heard that this room was completly cleared out and now just lies empty.

In fairness ghosts are not real and bad things have happened anywhere you are at some stage in history so it's not a big deal. I have lived in a " haunted house" for the past five years and guess what its just a old house that creeks but people who previously lived here must have not been very logical.

buttonteaser

73Cat wrote: »

There is a house known as Mrs. Clem's, out near the Saleens. You can see it over the field to the right, if you are driving down the narrow lane to the car park there. I think it used to be a care home, though I could have that wrong. My daughter went out there with friends one evening, and took photos of the house. Some very weird stuff showed up in them, and her camera never worked properly again after. They legged it out of there after seeing a white, child like figure, that followed them down to hedge they got out through. It freaked them out completely:(

i think this place is an airsoft site now, check it out http://www.whiskeydelta.net/Team.htm

FrodoNaggins

Im not one for believing in ghosts, but the old famine workhouse in lismore, co.waterford is pretty terrifying

foxcoverteddy

Not wishing to but in to the thread, however when you actually see a ghost, you will know they exist, not necessarily scary either.

mrkdips

FrodoNaggins wrote: »

Im not one for believing in ghosts, but the old famine workhouse in lismore, co.waterford is pretty terrifying

Where's the famine house in lismore

celica00

Was in Kilmeaden with a friend this weekend and we checked out the whitfield court house. we didnt go in as it was scarry enough from the outside and everything was blocked off. when we were close to the house to have a look inside we would hear baning from upstairs and at some point we even heard/felt someone standing behind us. we left after a while, no place i wanna check out again..

buttonteaser

celica00 wrote: »

Was in Kilmeaden with a friend this weekend and we checked out the whitfield court house. we didnt go in as it was scarry enough from the outside and everything was blocked off. when we were close to the house to have a look inside we would hear baning from upstairs and at some point we even heard/felt someone standing behind us. we left after a while, no place i wanna check out again..

i hear ya. its just such an eerie place. the feeling of dread once you hop over the wall

buttonteaser

did anyone see the picture on the news and star 2 weeks ago i think it was. a guy was trying to take a picture of birds in a graveyard but when he looked at the pic there was a little girl in it. pretty freaky actually.has anyone seen the pic. i lost my copy . does anyone know if the article is online anywhere?

Rubberlegs

buttonteaser wrote: »

i think this place is an airsoft site now, check it out http://www.whiskeydelta.net/Team.htm

That's the house alright. Jesus they look to be camping there in some photos. Feck that for a game of soldiers ha ha...

MRnotlob606

i used to do airsoft there was never in the house though., lovely spot

Bell232

just wondering does anyone know if whitfield court is haunted? or of any stories associated with it, i saw it mentioned on this thread

buttonteaser

Bell232 wrote: »

just wondering does anyone know if whitfield court is haunted? or of any stories associated with it, i saw it mentioned on this thread

Here's the copy of a story I posted last year when I went out to the house.




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15/08/2013 16:56
buttonteaser
Registered User
i went to look at an old mansion i used to visit as a child the other day. its been derelict over ten years now. we went in a side door the rest of the house is boarded up. got in through the servants quarters. so we were in one room for about twenty min debating whether to move further through the house. i was curious to to see the main staircase as it was amazing when the house was open. we made our way through the house and went to the stairs. as myself and another person in the group put our feet on the stairwell to go upstairs we heard what sounded like keys jingling. with that we left and went into the entrance hall. we stopped because we thought we were hearing things. then we heard a boom boom boom. we ran down to where we entered the house. the boom started coming closer to the point that it was just outside in the hallway. the last person coming out the door got stuck and the boom was right there behind her.

at first i thought it was someone trying to frighten us but there was so much glass and debris on the ground we made a hell of a lot of noise making our way through and out of the house again. if someone was coming after us we would have heard them moving on the floor.
the boom boom noise seemed to come from everywhere.

i had never felt fear like it as we though we wouldnt get out in time. i think whatever it was was trying to get us out of the house.

i have 2 theories as to why whatever it was frightened us out.
the first was, the house is condemned and when we went to walk up the stairs we were warned that the house wasnt safe.
the second i have researched and found out the lords in the house treated normal people and servants terribly, which made me think were in there part of the house and once we decided to go upstairs to the "rich" living quarters they didnt want us there and they frightened us back to the servants quartes of the house.

the other weird thing is as i said before it abandoned over ten years. there are no signs of drinking graffitti fires or any kind of vandalism. there are horse saddles lying around the house (which im sure would be worth money) and silver candle holder still on the walls, old vintage suitcases and a few other bits none of which have been touched.

not sure but it was a strange scary experience. from a place i used to have fond memories as a child the minute we stepped onto the grounds this time it was an eerie dead (no birds no noise except the trees moving) feeling

celica00

made a few frightening experiences there too, wouldn't go back there at all

the block

which house is whitfieldexactly. is the 1 before the sweep on d left heading toward kilmeaden from waterford wit d locked gates and very long drivdrivve.iv bn at crobally house in salleens many times never felt or cn anything. absolutely magnificent looking building it was used as some people bought it to convert it to a hotel vut for sone reason it never happened

the block

I also lived in gate lodge at butlerstown castle for a few years straight across from the graveyard on my own never bothered me.never cn r felt anything to creepy tbh.

buttonteaser

the block wrote: »

which house is whitfieldexactly. is the 1 before the sweep on d left heading toward kilmeaden from waterford wit d locked gates and very long drivdrivve.iv bn at crobally house in salleens many times never felt or cn anything. absolutely magnificent looking building it was used as some people bought it to convert it to a hotel vut for sone reason it never happened

Yep thats whitfield on the left, absolutely stunning house, a shame it's been left the to fall away.

the block

any idea who actually owns ut.is it nama r sond other government body r was it left to some distant family members.id b curious to no?

buttonteaser

the block wrote: »

any idea who actually owns ut.is it nama r sond other government body r was it left to some distant family members.id b curious to no?

It was bought a good few years back to be developed into a golf resort. It was previously owned by Hugh Dawnay and they ran a Polo school there. The upkeep was too costly as far as I know so they sold it. It's Nama that have it. Just looked up the listing there n it says sale agreed. It's up on sherry fitz

the block

jays what a shame.ye I jus checked it there myself.not sure if ur familiar wit crobally more house in salleens.another serious waste of a beautiful mansion jus lft in d hands of nama who will more than likely leave it to crumble.the views fronm da place r outstanding. I often ramble that way wit d dogs ta relax for a while and take it all in .i often thought bout moving in haha