Most eerie place in Ireland

[Deleted User] · 2015-10-27 08:43:06

Someone sent me a short story by John Connolly call A dream of winter. It is creepy and very atmospheric well worth a read at this time of year. Got me thinking about eerie places in Ireland. I will start with Marsh's Library specificity if you were there in the fading light of a dark winter afternoon and on you own. I am…

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Someone sent me a short story by John Connolly call A dream of winter. It is creepy and very atmospheric well worth a read at this time of year.

Got me thinking about eerie places in Ireland.

I will start with Marsh's Library specificity if you were there in the fading light of a dark winter afternoon and on you own.

I am not talking about Ireland most haunted but more places that are eerie and atmospheric

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#2 27-10-2015 12:54PM

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Any wood when the light is fading can be like that especially in Autumn.

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#3 27-10-2015 12:59PM

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Thought I might bring the kids to Loftus Hall this week to scare the sh1te out of them.

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#4 27-10-2015 12:59PM

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Hellfire Club in Dublin at dusk.

Loftus Hall at any time.

Roche Castle in Louth at night.

Leitrim.

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#5 27-10-2015 01:02PM

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Oconnell street at dusk
All the junkies waking up and patrolling the place like the walking dead

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#6 27-10-2015 01:04PM

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St. Kevin's asylum in Cork must be up there.

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#7 27-10-2015 01:15PM

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Old Barna Tunnel in Limerick

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#8 27-10-2015 01:18PM

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Moore Hall in Mayo.

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#9 27-10-2015 01:19PM

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My attic.

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#10 27-10-2015 01:22PM

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The old schoolhouse in Porterstown Dublin 15 terrifies me. It's an abandoned house in the middle of a field and looks like the Amityville house or something. Haven't been up there in some time and I think it might be gone or redeveloped but it was some place to visit at night.

See for yourself

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/history-heritage/architecture/architecture-in-fingal-du/old-porterstown-national-/

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#11 27-10-2015 01:26PM

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Amityville had that window too at the top with all the flies buzzing (eek).

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#12 27-10-2015 01:27PM

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Letterfrack...all of it.

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#13 27-10-2015 01:38PM

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Kilmainham Gaol particularly if you're on your own in the yard, very eerie.

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#14 27-10-2015 01:39PM

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The yard at Kilmainham Gaol is pretty errie knowing what happened there. More of a poignant errieness than a scary one.

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#15 27-10-2015 02:48PM

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I really want to go see Loftus Hall, why is it so spooky ??

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#16 27-10-2015 02:55PM

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Henry street / Moore Street after dark (well after shops close) gives me the creeps.

There's no reason to be on the street at all so it's just weird.

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#17 27-10-2015 02:57PM

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Twink's knicker drawer

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#18 27-10-2015 03:03PM

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Im a terrible auld cynic and dont really do the whole 'negative vibes off this place thing'. Im kinda impervious..BUT Kilmainham jail seems to have an effect on folk anytime Ive been there.
Also, anyone old enough to remember the rock festivals held on the old Browne family estate outside Castlebar (similar to Moore Hall mentioned previously in this thread). That place has heaps of nasty nasty history and Ive heard many people being effected by it.

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#19 27-10-2015 03:07PM

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eternal wrote: »

Any wood when the light is fading can be like that especially in Autumn.

I often think that is why this time of the year is associate with the dead and the idea the next world is very close on oiche Samhain ( if you believe in that sort of thing )

In pagan times Ireland was heavily wooded.

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#20 27-10-2015 03:11PM

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The south campus of NUIM. During the snow a few years ago it was one of the most beautiful scenes ever.

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#21 27-10-2015 03:15PM

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Duff wrote: »

Leitrim.

I know you were only joking but there are a good few eerie places around me in Leitrim. I live next to a lake that has had a good few suicides incl a mother and child, walking past it late at night hearing the lapping of the waves always freaks me out. Also a murder committed about half a km away. And one place a mile up the road (past aforementioned lake) that I wrote this about-
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=89822444&postcount=1816

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#22 27-10-2015 03:19PM

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We were driving somewhere either in Roscommon or Offaly, again it was in the fading light of a winters afternoon the only car on the road looking out over the vast expansive of bog, it was very atmospheric it was like time was suspended.

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#23 27-10-2015 03:20PM

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I climbed up Muckish mountain in Donegal a few weeks ago. All around that area is quite eerie, very sparsely populated, heather marshy land and you think back to Famine times. You can still see the old, stone homesteads. Makes you sad thinking back to that time and what those people must have went through.

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#24 27-10-2015 03:35PM

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Kovu wrote: »

I know you were only joking but there are a good few eerie places around me in Leitrim. I live next to a lake that has had a good few suicides incl a mother and child, walking past it late at night hearing the lapping of the waves always freaks me out. Also a murder committed about half a km away. And one place a mile up the road (past aforementioned lake) that I wrote this about-
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=89822444&postcount=1816

This place you are talking about, is it a two storey house near Rossinver Chapel by any chance?

Edit: I just realised I may have spotted your post in the 'unnerving' thread and had asked you the same question last year.

If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)

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#25 27-10-2015 03:39PM

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Loads of eerie-porn in here:

http://www.abandonedireland.com/

and here:

http://www.ciaranmchugh.com/?pagid=irelands-abandoned-ruins-0

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#26 27-10-2015 04:39PM

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One time years ago I flew back to Ireland at Christmas and the week before Christmas took the American girlfriend on a little B&B tour of Ireland. Went to Cashel, Blarney, Bantry, Ennis, and Galway.

Anyway on the trip back to Dublin from Galway I decided to stop off in Clonmacnoise to show her.

Being the time of year it was and the time of day it was....maybe 3:30 - 4:00pm we were the only two in the place. But not only that there was a dense fog that descended on the place. Walked carefully down to the river bank where you could just see the outline of a Norman ruin and one solitary swan on the water slowly disappearing and and reemerging from the mist. Silent as a morgue.

It was Fucking mega-eerie

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#27 27-10-2015 04:48PM

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Bay Lough, up in the Knockmealdowns in the vicinity of the Vee.
Very spooky .

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#28 27-10-2015 06:21PM

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Leap Castle certainly has a reputation. I wouldn't fancy spending the night alone in the 'Bloody Chapel' this coming Halloween.

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#29 27-10-2015 06:27PM

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Another vote for Kilmainham Gaol, the hairs on the back of my neck were on end.

I am English though \0/

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#30 27-10-2015 06:37PM

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The Blackrock walkway in Cork.

Especially at dusk during this time of year.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~garydon88/railwayline%20.html

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#31 27-10-2015 08:10PM

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DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Leap Castle certainly has a reputation. I wouldn't fancy spending the night alone in the 'Bloody Chapel' this coming Halloween.

I had to look it up and it intrigues me..though I see that it is in Offaly. I never met anyone who was actually from Offaly and always insisted that the place doesn't really exist.....does it?

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