Camping at The Hell Fire Club

Years ago it was good craic except for some devil worshippers :eek: the only nuisance you`d have thesedays are junkies from neighbouring Tallaght skagged out

stuey wrote:

I bet this will get some weird looks

I live in rathfarnham and I have walked up there a good few times on my own at night and i have never seen a soul up there

plus on a clear night u get a spectacular view of the city

I have been up there too, love it esp when there s snow on the mountians.
The troubler maker and people who go there to drink and do drugs usually cant stand being wet and so tend to be up there over the summer, too cold and too wet the rest of the year.

dublin6th wrote:

it doesnt hurt that i love like some sort vicious animal ... .

thats great, i am sure the wife is delighted. DOnt think you need to share it with the rest of the forum though!

I thought I'd post here on this particular topic and see if anyone here has experienced this... A few months ago I brought two friends of mine up to see the Hell Fire Club. They lived in Knocklyon and I'd been working with them a few months and they asked me one day about "the house on the hill". They wanted me to bring them up to see it so up we went on Saturday morning. I often go for walks with the dog up here so when we approached the house I went into the house and went upstairs. I leaned over the steel barriers at the front of the building that are at the spaces that used to be windows and just enjoyed the view of the city. I didn't go into either of the rooms on the left or the right of the landing but my two friends went into the room that is on the right at the top of the stairs and called me in to have a look at what they saw. Inside the room were small flat candles lighting in steel shells (like the ones you see in the church), which were placed inside jamjars (obviously to stop the candles being blown out in the wind). There are various shelf like arrangements in the stone wall and a number of the jars were sitting on these, but there were also some on the window ledges and on the ground. White chalk had been used to draw a pentagram shape between the candles, altogether I'd say there were at least 6 candles and jars, most of them still lighting althought there was not a sign of anyone. I assumed they were still lighting from the night before. There was a broken crucifix in the corner which looked like a nail had been hammered into the base of it to attach it to a wall or something. I assumed that if you wanted to hang a cruxifix on a wall with a nail, you'd put the nail at the top of the cross so I could only figure that this cruxifix had been hung upside down on the wall. There was also some pieces of orange clothes line rope lying around at one wall with knots in them.

I didn't know what to make of all this, to say the least it looked to me like some kind of ritual or ceremony had taken place the previous night. The broken cross with the nail in the base made me think it was something related to satanism or devil worshipping or something like that, (not an expert here!).

Has anyone ever experienced this before???

&#231 wrote: »

Amazed to hear it wasnt full of bottles and cans anymore - i used go to school down the road from it and any time we wandered up it was in a right state - though i do remember a class hike up that far and talking to this couple wasted off their face - great laugh

Crash, I could have told the same story. :eek: Were you at St Enda too?

Jasus Satanists actually have their own thread!!! Thanks 6th...

6th, just wondering would you know anything about the granite memorial stone outside the house??? There is a guys name on it and the date that he died, I can't remember the date, think it was the year 2000 anyway...??? Do you know if it is someone who died up there, how they died or any further details???

I remember hearing years ago when I was in the scouts that there are actually large cellars or spaces of some sort under the Hell Fire Club building. I heard this from a scout leader who was into geophysics and bought some device up to the site once to do a survey and found large cavaties under the ground floor. I wasn't there when this was done and I'm only repeating what I heard but it is not outside the bounds of possibility that this is true. Over the years the ground level has risen up around the house to the point where a fairly large part of the original ground floor is probably under a metre or two of soil at this stage so any entrance to a lower floor/cellar if it existed is probably well concealed at this stage. When you walk through the door at the bottom of the house it is obvious that the height of the door is not the original height, unless it was built for the 7 dwarfs. Given the original purpose of the building for The Earl of Rosse, it is probable that some cellar structure was built for storing wine or whatever.