Most eerie place in Ireland

cml387 · 27-10-2015 11:00PM

It's very near Roscrea on the Offaly Tipperary border.

InTheTrees · 27-10-2015 11:00PM

Glendalough.

Its a beautiful serene valley but it also gives me the shivvers. Perhaps its more about places where we reflect a lot on the people that have been there before and what they experienced added to quietness and serenity and a feeling of reflection. Which is why churches or graveyards or big old houses can be "eerie".

dandyelevan · 27-10-2015 11:12PM

Clononey Castle, (Near Cloghan, Co. Offaly on the Shannonbridge Road) is the most haunted house in the world, according to Discovery Channel some years ago.
I've been there quite a few times, but it's in private hands now and don't know if visitors are allowed.

2forjoy · 27-10-2015 11:14PM

Duckets grove near Carlow - theres something eerie going on there

Crumpets · 28-10-2015 12:01AM

I remember doing the RIng of Kerry late December a couple of years ago and it was so foggy driving along the cliff sides, it was completely white. Certain parts of it were really eery. Especially with the odd sheep standing on the side of the road staring at ya.

Royal Legend · 28-10-2015 12:06AM

Portlaw Co. Waterford

Weird, weird town, strange people, drive through the square on an summers evening and you get funny looks from the locals, would remind you of the village of the damned.

fleet_admiral · 28-10-2015 12:06AM

I didnt find Loftus Hall that eerie, although the tapestry room did give me the chills

Ruu · 28-10-2015 12:21AM

Ross Castle!

KERSPLAT! · 28-10-2015 12:41AM

I was somewhere years ago that was pretty freaky but I was only about 12/13. This is a bad description but maybe someone will recognise it.

I think it's in Leinster, surrounded by manacured landscape a large house which looks similar to Loftus House. There was a camping site to the left about 200m out the main front door and the site was surrounded by stone walls. Straight out the front was a river or lake with a bridge over part of it.

Anyone any idea?

Inside there were loads of religious artifacts. One room in particular upstairs scared the bejaysus out of us. Would love to go back for a look around!

Canadel · 28-10-2015 12:43AM

Ghost Buster wrote: »

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.

Moore Hall is certainly creepy at night but a lot of young people go swimming there when it's fine during the summer. As for the Browne family estate, do please explain..

Baggy Trousers · 28-10-2015 12:44AM

bur wrote: »

Letterfrack...all of it.

There is something about Letterfrack alright. You can nearly sense the suffering that went on there for decades. Creepy.
I can only imagine how alone those poor young lads felt. No wonder there were so many suicides.

Grandeeod · 28-10-2015 12:44AM

Has anyone said....

Moate

ceadaoin. · 28-10-2015 01:03AM

dandyelevan wrote: »

Clononey Castle, (Near Cloghan, Co. Offaly on the Shannonbridge Road) is the most haunted house in the world, according to Discovery Channel some years ago.
I've been there quite a few times, but it's in private hands now and don't know if visitors are allowed.

Well is it really haunted? Anything interesting happen during any of your visits?

castletownman · 28-10-2015 01:14AM

osarusan wrote: »

Loads of eerie-porn in here:

http://www.abandonedireland.com/

and here:

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

Clicked on the pic of Lisheen House, read the description and looked at the pic again and nearly leapt out of my chair. Creepy

Sapphire3 · 28-10-2015 01:49AM

If you drive over the Sally Gap and up near to the Hellfire club, you would certainly get an eerie feeling when the light is fading.

eternal · 28-10-2015 01:50AM

I'm really up for a ramble in the woods now coming up to Halloween. I love this time of year.

Whitewinged · 28-10-2015 09:53AM

Craggy Island

Shannon757 · 28-10-2015 10:07AM

Sapphire3 wrote: »

If you drive over the Sally Gap and up near to the Hellfire club, you would certainly get an eerie feeling when the light is fading.

And imagine meeting a pig on the road when your doing it:eek:

J Mysterio · 28-10-2015 11:00AM

Shannon757 wrote: »

And imagine meeting a pig on the road when your doing it:eek:

Do they patrol up there?

Ghost Buster · 28-10-2015 11:16AM

Canadel wrote: »

Moore Hall is certainly creepy at night but a lot of young people go swimming there when it's fine during the summer. As for the Browne family estate, do please explain..

Its about 3 miles outside castlebar on the old Newport/Glenisland road. Its way back off the road and fairly inaccesable. It was owned by The Browne family who also owned Westport House and Breaffy House at some point. One of the Brownes was notorious as a hanging judge and there are lots of folk tales/legends about what bastards the famiy were!!!
Shooting local during the famine for breaking into their gardens to steal food etc.
Theres a large monument to one of the daughters who was thrown out of a carriage and killed according to locals...she wasnt..
A huge family tomb which was broken into in the early 1900s. naturally those who broke in were driven mad and cursed!!!!!
There are the house ruins, a private chapel, boat house, the daughters monument, the tomb and private family grave yard and a supposed hanging tree.
As I said there was a rock festival held there over two years in the early 80.
I havent been there since i was a kid so its eerieness level is taken from the memory of a 11 year old!
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Breaston Plants · 28-10-2015 11:20AM

Longford town.

allibastor · 28-10-2015 05:26PM

Curraghchase house in Co. Limerick is a bit eerie on an early morning if its misty.

You used to be able to get into the house from loose bricks at the back and stand inside it. It was creepy when it was covered in mist as you cant hear much from the outside world

dandyelevan · 28-10-2015 06:08PM

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Well is it really haunted? Anything interesting happen during any of your visits?

Well, not really.
If you look through the gate there's a blackthorn bush about 20 meters away. Underneath is the grave of Anne Boleyn's sister and husband, who were, allegedly, killed by fake Monks (agents of Henry V111) because the sister took offence at Henry's treatment of Anne.

There's a stone slab over the grave, and the couple are regularly seen walking the grounds....(allegedly)

Ally Dick · 28-10-2015 06:43PM

Bailieborough......shops with bags of spuds and briquettes piled out the front, toothless simpletons, twitching curtains, no mod cons....creepy.....

InTheTrees · 28-10-2015 06:50PM

I remember breaking into the mausoleum at headfort house when I was a kid in the early 70's

It seems it has gates now but I remember it had massive doors so it was much more scary inside.

2forjoy · 23-11-2015 12:48AM

eerie for me was duckets grove outside carlow

Yakkyda · 23-11-2015 01:07AM

dodderangler wrote: »

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

At dusk their either not there, or too zonked to be a bother.
It's 8am-3pm when their bothersome...

The Sidewards Man · 23-11-2015 01:15AM

Donegal town.

TheLastMohican · 23-11-2015 01:15AM

Xenji wrote: »

Moore Hall in Mayo.

I went to a boarding school not too far from Moore Hall. Once a year we all walked (forced march) to Lough Carra for a mega-picnic/swimming/fishing exercise and some of us would sneak away for a smoke within it's forlorn walls. Exciting but eerie as the shades of night came down.

minibear · 23-11-2015 01:41AM

Years ago I lived in Kerry and every weekend I would do some exploring around the county and stop for coffee somewhere. On one of these trips I ended up at Ballyseede Castle Hotel. As I drove in the gates I realised I didn't want to go any further but there was no way of turning around so I continued on up the drive until I got to the hotel itself.

I've never experienced the feeling of utter dread that I felt that day. It was almost like a physical force and I sat in the car trying to rationalise it. I was shaky and my heart was pounding. I made myself go into the hotel and when someone eventually appeared and I enquired about getting some coffee I was actually relieved that the bar wasn't open. I legged it as quick as I could. I just had a look at the website now to see how I felt and although the interior photos show a beautiful building and beautiful rooms, it's the lawn at the front that still frightens me.

A few years later I was back down that way with friends who insisted we go there to see this place that freaked me out so much. I felt a bit safer with them there but still terribly uneasy. They thought it was hilarious.

Most eerie place in Ireland

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