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loftus hall
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how did you get in there?????? when i went the place was like fort knox.Three nights spent in Loftus Hall back in the summer
The whole place was explored from top to bottom
Uploaded the photo sets on Flickr and Pix. Get them while you can!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32677070@N04/sets/72157609670380437/
http://pix.ie/mrloftus/album/330434
Regards,
Mr Loftus
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Three nights spent in Loftus Hall back in the summer
The whole place was explored from top to bottom
Uploaded the photo sets on Flickr and Pix. Get them while you can!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32677070@N04/sets/72157609670380437/
http://pix.ie/mrloftus/album/330434
Regards,
Mr Loftus
Mr Loftus you have been very bold!
congratulations on your excellent exploration0 -
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It would be great to see such a lovely building repaired and opened to the public.
Every place in Ireland has a story or ghost story attached to it. Yep Grandma's and Grandad's every where responiable for this lol. Hey were else would we get our legends from. Lovely tradition to pass along
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Woah only found this thread now.
I was in Loftus Hall years ago, about 15 years ago. We used to have a holiday home in Fethard, we'd go down there every summer, used to love it there.
Anyway, when I was about four/five we went to Loftus Hall. Now, I had no idea whatsoever about it's history or why we were even going there at the time and it's only in the last few years that i've found out. I remember visiting it so clearly, I can even remember the song that was on the radio lol.
It must of been a guest house at the time because we went into the bar area. Such a beautiful building, was huge, i remember very clearly walking in the big door into the hall and there was the sound of dogs barking viciously, quite scarey when you're four
. What was really strange was there was a scream from upstairs when we were in the hall and the old lady came out and brought us into the bar area straight away. It was quite odd, there was noise of televisions on and people talking but there was no one there 
We were the only people in the whole place.
Even the bar area was weird, we didn't stay long at all, think just finished our drinks and left. They only sold coca cola as well :mad:but that's beside the point xD.
After talking about it since with my parents my mother said she wanted to get out of there fast the place had such a horrible atmosphere. I often wondered why I remember it so vividly being so young, I didn't even know the history so it's not like I invented things in my head. Very eerie place.0 -
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Hey there.
I have had the experience of going up to the hall. Myself and 9 others travelled down, but in the end only 3 of us walked up, including me. We had no intention of going inside or any thing, we just wanted to go look at the house itself and all that. We made it to the top of the drive way when I clearly heard dog's barking, as did my 2 friends. We walked slowly forward with anxiety wrote all over our faces. Just as we reached the pillars turning into the court house one of my friends stopped suddenly. I turned and asked "what's wrong" he pointed at the corner of the pillar where the big tree's start and said "there's some one there", the other fella also started backing up, and at this point I was afraid to turn around and look. After a ****ing scary 10 seconds or so I did turn and I am almost certain to this day that I seen some one standing beside the pillar...
We turned and ran back, but had to dodge the spot light of a local and eventually made it back to our cars. To this day all three of us can swear we did hear dogs and see some body at the top of that long lane.
That was almost 2 years ago.
After reading this thread I had renewed interest and travelled down with a lager group with more people genuinely interested in the paranormal. We arrived at the gates, and about 2 minutes later we had 3 local men telling us they had our registration plates and would phone the guards if we so much as touched the land at the other side of the wall.
We made them look silly and told them we were on our way to visit the light house, the left but we never went back to the house...
I am genuinely curious as to why the locals are so protective of this place, I mean yeah it may be private property buy besides that what harm is there being done with 3 or 4 people walking on the land?
Also, as for the stories behind this place.
The Generic devil story is not true, how ever, the story of the priest and the children in the "devils room" is true and actually recorded (some where).. As for the cannon's plaque I think that may have to do with the fact that one of the residents did suffer from a mental illness leading the family to believe that she was possessed and needed an exorcist. People seem to forget that the idea of possession is accepted by the catholic religion and at the time would have had to be taken very seriously. 0 -
Hey there!
Wow, Nail bitting stuff. The first time you went up to the house how did you even get down the lane to begin with?? There is a man living in the little cottage directly across from the main gates of the house and he gards them with his life, anyone that even remotely slows down driving by the gates and hes out like a shot telling them to "Move On"......
I went down to Loftas for the frist time last year with my boyfriend, just for a look and to try and get a few pictures for my friends Web Site Abandoned Ireland.... we parked the car a couple of hundred yards down the road while we decided which was the best way to head in. We walked down the road towards the gate to take a look, there was no way in there with out beeing seen so we turned around and walked back, just as we turned on our heals i heard the front door of the cottage click open and an elderly man stepped out, i wanted to look behind but we kept walking. He went back into the house after a few min, when he was gone we made a dive into the field next to the house. We made our way down along by the hedge and kept low. We ended up down beside the beach, so we were coming at the house from below eye level and from the back. We were in stelth mode going through the fields, all of a sudden a car drove up the lane at speed and started circling the house. We stayed low in the corn fields. Eventually the car left and we moved closer to the house, by this stage there was only one hedge and a narrow gravel road seperating us between the house. We were just about to stand up and make our move when my BF said "GET DOWN" theres the car again..... the car, out of "NO WHERE" just drove out from behind the house!!!! We ducked down behind the bushes and the car came closer rolling along the gravel track, it stopped right beside us on the other side of the hedge, we were practicly holding our breath it was sooooo close. After a few min it drove off!! Lucky or what!!!! In the end we just packed it in and left cos they were onto us from min go, how i dont know, we were not seen at all and were ultra sneaky. Ahhww i got a few good photos anyway, thats all i really wanted and to get a close up look at what all the fuss was about!!!!
So anyone whos planning a trip to the house, be carefull cos they are wide to everyone, its harder than it looks 0 -
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I know the house is not haunted, i dont belive in all the nonsence said about the house an all the stories behind it, just heard stuff about the sale of it so was wondering if anything came of it
Its an amazing house and would be great to see someone living in it again etc. Ive never been in the house myself only ever got a few pics of it from one of the fields. General love of old houses.0 -
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went down there fairly recently with 2 of my m8s was very creepy... didnt see any wierd old men etc... altough i suppose the fact it was 3 am might have lead to the lack of attention we recieved.... really wasnt up for it when we got there as their was an alarm box on the front and also on the right hand side of te house there was light shining behind the boards.... but i didnt drive 2 and a half hours to bitch out... so we proceeded with caution...
the main gate was a no go cause there was a silver Volkswagen Caddy kinda van car thing parked right outside.... so we went into the field to the right of the house which has just bein recently harvested.... there was straw bails etc all over it which really didnt settle the oul nerves.... felt like i was about to be abducted by aliens.... anyway we got to this ridiculously large wall on the far side of the field and decided not to head for the house straight on and stayed to the right..... when we got to the corner of the wall i tryed to climb it to scope out the area.... and naturally when i got to the top of this dirty big wall a slab which seemed solid broke off and i came tumbling down like humpty dumpty into the nettles and then got the slab of rock to the back.... no fun.... loftus wanted to give me pain... anyway we went around back and reached the second corner in the wall at which there is barbed wire and a freaky ass Virgin Mary statue which is broken in half and leaning up against the wall.... so creeped at this stage...
so on our approach to the house we avoided the old church and living quarters for the old workers and stuck out in the field till we were on the southwest side of the house which is the back for anyone without google maps.... and we went forward where there were no obstructions... then we noticed a red light ontop of the house and naturally jumped to the conclusion that it was an infrared camera and that we were busted... but after a 5 minute gander at it we realised it was an old un-activated emergency light which set our ideas of being arrested to rest... anyway we went up and touched the house and unless youve bein there in the pitch black u have no idea how **** scary it is.... the sheer size of the house and its boarded up windows.... really.... it gets ya.... so we pushed on around the house with some stealth as we were wary of that van at the frontgate and taught there may be security.... at the front of the house we noticed there was one window unboarded up to the left of the alarm box and we could see a faint light inside.... and to the right of the alarm box was the boarded up window that you could see proper light coming through.... anywho we proceded around the house some more all the time looking for a way in wthout "breaking" and entering.... we got a bit braver and went into the old church and snapped a few photos while gettin scared half to death by a pigeon that suddenly left its nest in the hurry.... we went into the old living quarters hoping to find a way in to no avail as everything but an old boiler room was boarded up... then i went mission impossible style
back were we started i decided maybe u can get in through the roof and decided to jump up onto the roof at the back of the house.... all the skylights were boarded up but you could see inside to were there used to be a chandaleer which was past a wall which i didnt think was safe to be on the other side of as i didnt no how sturdy the old slate section of roof was.... although for any other adventures the lower roof itself was perfectly safe for me and im 11 stone-ish.... but be careful... anyway after the we realised that the only way into the building would be with a crobar and would instantly turn the posssible "trespassing" charge into "breaking and entering" & "posession of a weapon" we decided that we'd had our experience and werent really up for being arrested for something serious....
all in all it was well worth the drive down and gave me something to do on a night when money for goin out wasnt accessible
no paranormal things happened at all and the local wildlife gave us the biggest scares excluding the creek of the boards with the wind and of curse that eeery ass light which i still cant figure out....
Would love to know bout anyone else whos made the trip and maybe who has a way in without the use of brute force...
p.s sorry for the essay 0 -
loftuslover wrote: »went down there fairly recently with 2 of my m8s was very creepy... didnt see any wierd old men etc... altough i suppose the fact it was 3 am might have lead to the lack of attention we recieved.... really wasnt up for it when we got there as their was an alarm box on the front and also on the right hand side of te house there was light shining behind the boards.... but i didnt drive 2 and a half hours to bitch out... so we proceeded with caution...
the main gate was a no go cause there was a silver Volkswagen Caddy kinda van car thing parked right outside.... so we went into the field to the right of the house which has just bein recently harvested.... there was straw bails etc all over it which really didnt settle the oul nerves.... felt like i was about to be abducted by aliens.... anyway we got to this ridiculously large wall on the far side of the field and decided not to head for the house straight on and stayed to the right..... when we got to the corner of the wall i tryed to climb it to scope out the area.... and naturally when i got to the top of this dirty big wall a slab which seemed solid broke off and i came tumbling down like humpty dumpty into the nettles and then got the slab of rock to the back.... no fun.... loftus wanted to give me pain... anyway we went around back and reached the second corner in the wall at which there is barbed wire and a freaky ass Virgin Mary statue which is broken in half and leaning up against the wall.... so creeped at this stage...
so on our approach to the house we avoided the old church and living quarters for the old workers and stuck out in the field till we were on the southwest side of the house which is the back for anyone without google maps.... and we went forward where there were no obstructions... then we noticed a red light ontop of the house and naturally jumped to the conclusion that it was an infrared camera and that we were busted... but after a 5 minute gander at it we realised it was an old un-activated emergency light which set our ideas of being arrested to rest... anyway we went up and touched the house and unless youve bein there in the pitch black u have no idea how **** scary it is.... the sheer size of the house and its boarded up windows.... really.... it gets ya.... so we pushed on around the house with some stealth as we were wary of that van at the frontgate and taught there may be security.... at the front of the house we noticed there was one window unboarded up to the left of the alarm box and we could see a faint light inside.... and to the right of the alarm box was the boarded up window that you could see proper light coming through.... anywho we proceded around the house some more all the time looking for a way in wthout "breaking" and entering.... we got a bit braver and went into the old church and snapped a few photos while gettin scared half to death by a pigeon that suddenly left its nest in the hurry.... we went into the old living quarters hoping to find a way in to no avail as everything but an old boiler room was boarded up... then i went mission impossible style
back were we started i decided maybe u can get in through the roof and decided to jump up onto the roof at the back of the house.... all the skylights were boarded up but you could see inside to were there used to be a chandaleer which was past a wall which i didnt think was safe to be on the other side of as i didnt no how sturdy the old slate section of roof was.... although for any other adventures the lower roof itself was perfectly safe for me and im 11 stone-ish.... but be careful... anyway after the we realised that the only way into the building would be with a crobar and would instantly turn the posssible "trespassing" charge into "breaking and entering" & "posession of a weapon" we decided that we'd had our experience and werent really up for being arrested for something serious....
all in all it was well worth the drive down and gave me something to do on a night when money for goin out wasnt accessible no paranormal things happened at all and the local wildlife gave us the biggest scares excluding the creek of the boards with the wind and of curse that eeery ass light which i still cant figure out....
Would love to know bout anyone else whos made the trip and maybe who has a way in without the use of brute force...
p.s sorry for the essay
Hey,
Thanks for the story, i was there myself a few months back with my BF before the security was so 'in your face' :mad:..... But the guy in the gate lodge house was onto us after a while, plus it wasnt fully dark yet, and they kept driving up around the house circling it non stop....
Have you seen the inside of the house before?? Ive seen pics of every room inside, its manky, a guy and his GF got into the house some time back and went throught the whole place at night.;) "If there reading this now im sure they know who they are"..... they lit candles and shared a bottle of wine and some cigerates!! haha
So, the window with the light on, do you think there was someone in there? or lights just left on to put people off?? Was there no way in that window? Best thing to do is and the only way in is, unscrewing and removing one of the chip boards quietly and carefully, go in, and put it back in place while inside, so it looks like it hasnt been touched. Oh and remember what window you went in cos there is a hell of a lot of them!! When you leave just screw the board back on tight the way it was!! 
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Cheers Sam, just watched the video. Interesting in places, gas in others!
I liked the theory on the ball lightening heeheehee
I'm sure the paranormalers will love this stuff
If you upload the 500Mb I'll download it My main interest is in seeing the interior of the house. Amazing how much the place has deteriorated since being left empty. Funny that Sherry Fitz are still advertising the place with photographs that must of been taken in the 60s!
Yep there are some hysterical posts on this thread.
and too many eejts about!
Thanks again for ripping the video, great work.0 -
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