Haunted Houses etc in Clare/Galway?

Shoop · 29-07-2009 10:49pm #1

Anyone know of any haunted houses or stuff like that anywhere in Clare or Galway (Woodlawn House obviously)

Sam Kade · 29-07-2009 11:16pm

There was a haunted house in Galway city on an American program recently. The program is called "a haunting" it did a reconstruction of the family that lived in it. It is in corrib park west of the city.

6th · 29-07-2009 11:31pm

From Paranormal.ie -

Strange Woman
Location: The Burren - Ballynalackan Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The shadowy figure of an unknown woman stands around the castle entrance, as if in waiting.

Spanish Sailors
Location: The Burren - Beach near Doonagore Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The beach below the castle is haunted by the ghosts of Spanish sailors from a shipwrecked Armada ship. Those who did not drown were quickly put to death by Boetius Clancy, the Sheriff of Clare.

Red Mary
Location: The Burren - Leamaneh Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Seventeenth century
Further Comments: Mary O'Brien was said by many to be a witch, and tales are told of how frequently she hanged her servants if they made mistakes. Some say she was finally caught by her enemies and left to stave to death in a hollow tree. Regardless of how she died, her unearthly form still returns to her castle.

WB Yeats
Location: Galway - Renvyle House hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Yeats treated this building as home away from home, and is believed to still reside here. Several of the rooms are also haunted by the ghosts of children.

http://www.paranormal.ie

Shoop · 29-07-2009 11:38pm

6th wrote: »

From Paranormal.ie -

http://www.paranormal.ie

I've never heard of teh Yeats one before, deinatly must search for more on that.
Thanks!

ultain · 23-03-2010 2:02am

There's a house or two out in oughterard..which have had poltergeist activity, pretty vague after that..have tried to find out more but have had no luck..one of the houses is on the outskirts of the village heading to clifden. Would like to know of any on this neck of the woods, Ive heard about Yeats's haunt:)..but not much else.

hairyfairy00 · 23-03-2010 5:28pm

Sam Kade wrote: »

There was a haunted house in Galway city on an American program recently. The program is called "a haunting" it did a reconstruction of the family that lived in it. It is in corrib park west of the city.

That house is in Corrib Park but it's no longer haunted as there was a cleansing done. That episode of 'A Haunting' was hilarious, the accents were terrible!

bigeasyeah · 31-03-2010 6:21pm

There is supposed to be a old man seen around Maam Cross.The stories are mainly that you pass him and if you look back he s gone.Some have added that he looks sad.

Riamfada · 31-03-2010 11:15pm

bigeasyeah wrote: »

There is supposed to be a old man seen around Maam Cross.The stories are mainly that you pass him and if you look back he s gone.Some have added that he looks sad.

Isnt there a bar at Maam's cross? I know of a haunted place in Oughterard.

bigeasyeah · 02-04-2010 9:58pm

Grimes wrote: »

Isnt there a bar at Maam's cross? I know of a haunted place in Oughterard.

Yep-Peacocks.

Riamfada · 03-04-2010 12:48am

bigeasyeah wrote: »

Yep-Peacocks.

Great toasted sambos

Diabhal Beag · 03-04-2010 1:02pm

Grimes wrote: »

Great toasted sambos

YAY it had the plastic donkey

LadyTBolt · 16-04-2010 10:43pm

Dromoland Castle is supposed to be haunted. Don't know how true that is but I've heard it from a couple of different people and also from somebody who saw a ghostly figure on the stairway.

Urizen · 18-04-2010 1:50am

That Yeats house do overnights?

ultain · 10-06-2011 11:52pm

Riamfada wrote: »

I know of a haunted place in Oughterard.

where's this?

Milly33 · 14-06-2011 9:48am

Ha i asked the same question a few weeks ago and all i get was a smart alic reply...

Chimo29 · 28-10-2016 11:32am

ultain wrote: »

There's a house or two out in oughterard..which have had poltergeist activity, pretty vague after that..have tried to find out more but have had no luck..one of the houses is on the outskirts of the village heading to clifden. Would like to know of any on this neck of the woods, Ive heard about Yeats's haunt:)..but not much else.

Hi I know it's years after this post but I think I know of this house. It's a few miles towards clifden just inside a little forest off the main road. I'm not really a believer in these things but this house really got me about 13 years ago. I stopped with a girlfriend at the time and we looked in.. the back door started shaking and bats started flying out through a hole.
Inside it looked lived in but like no one had been there in years...table set etc...but dusty as hell.
I often wondered if it was just a myth told to me by someone or do others know of this house.
Can you describe the one you know to me a bit better please?
I'm going down to clifden from Dublin tomorrow and want to stop there and look again. Although a little apprehensive lol.
Thanks

Chimo

Pjizzle · 31-10-2016 8:48am

Chimo29 wrote: »

ultain wrote: »

There's a house or two out in oughterard..which have had poltergeist activity, pretty vague after that..have tried to find out more but have had no luck..one of the houses is on the outskirts of the village heading to clifden. Would like to know of any on this neck of the woods, Ive heard about Yeats's haunt:)..but not much else.

Hi I know it's years after this post but I think I know of this house. It's a few miles towards clifden just inside a little forest off the main road. I'm not really a believer in these things but this house really got me about 13 years ago. I stopped with a girlfriend at the time and we looked in.. the back door started shaking and bats started flying out through a hole.
Inside it looked lived in but like no one had been there in years...table set etc...but dusty as hell.
I often wondered if it was just a myth told to me by someone or do others know of this house.
Can you describe the one you know to me a bit better please?
I'm going down to clifden from Dublin tomorrow and want to stop there and look again. Although a little apprehensive lol.
Thanks

Chimo

Hello! I live out in Connemara and know the house you are talking about. My grandfather once went up to it to look in the windows and saw the same thing, table set but looked as if someone had gone in a hurry. We've always been told it's haunted and not to go up there. Throughout the years we've seen it for sale lots of times. Rumour was nobody could ever stay there. A friend of mine was asked to do work in there for the new owners (holiday makers) and he said he had a hard time finding other lads to come with him as they all said they didn't want to go inside. My friend told the home owners this and they said they were aware of the stories but they had never experienced anything. It's a terribly spooky house. I just feel like there is something not good about it that's why I stay away.

Chimo29 · 01-11-2016 1:35am

Pjizzle wrote: »

Hello! I live out in Connemara and know the house you are talking about. My grandfather once went up to it to look in the windows and saw the same thing, table set but looked as if someone had gone in a hurry. We've always been told it's haunted and not to go up there. Throughout the years we've seen it for sale lots of times. Rumour was nobody could ever stay there. A friend of mine was asked to do work in there for the new owners (holiday makers) and he said he had a hard time finding other lads to come with him as they all said they didn't want to go inside. My friend told the home owners this and they said they were aware of the stories but they had never experienced anything. It's a terribly spooky house. I just feel like there is something not good about it that's why I stay away.

Hi
Do you mean the same house? A few miles towards clifden there is a wooded area on the right and a lake behind trees on the left heading in the clifden direction. The house has an old metal gate and you can just about see the house behind all the bushes?
I was in clifden over the weekend and really wanted to stop and have another look as it's been 13 years I pulled in at the gate and it still looks like nothing has been touched from the outside anyway. My girlfriend freaked out and didn't want me to leave the car so I didn't.
Obviously nothing has been done to the house I in the 13 years since I looked in the window.
The story I heard from my mother when I was a child was that some ucg students did some investigating into that house and during the process one jumped through one of the windows and two others committed suicide after that.
No idea if that's just fairytales or not. When I looked inside 13 years ago it certainly looked as though it was abandoned very suddenly without a thing packed away. The table being set is what really got me thinking. We went round the back and saw bats flying around and a partly damaged wooden door in the back.
I'm so curious to look in the windows again and take some pics this time to see if they show anything after. I might go down sometime with friends. But I really can't see myself going inside. Don't think I'd have the guts to do that.. there's definitely a strange feeling about that house .
I've never thought much about haunted houses and wicklow gaol and the likes but that house always made me think...
If you want I'll post the GPS location so you know the one I mean unless you know exactly which one I mean.
Unfortunately I probably won't be down there till about March now but who knows.
If anyone else has a look, please post..

Chimo

happyoutscan · 05-11-2016 11:04am

Think I found it on Google Maps. Might take a spin over at some stage to have a look. Easy enough to enter the house?

Chimo29 · 05-11-2016 11:42am

happyoutscan wrote: »

Think I found it on Google Maps. Might take a spin over at some stage to have a look. Easy enough to enter the house?

Hi. I've attached the coordinates and a screen shot of the house marked with a star from oughterard out towards clifden.
Funny enough looking at the map in satellite mode the top gables of the house are shaped as an upside down cross lol..creepy.
Please let me know if it's the same one and of you go inside please take loads of pics. I'm dying to see.
From what I remember the wooden back door was not in good condition and could easily be opened.. there were bats in there too so don't be too startled by that. I wouldn't go inside but if you do please post any pics you do take.

Regards
Chimo

Chimo29 · 05-11-2016 12:07pm

happyoutscan wrote: »

Think I found it on Google Maps. Might take a spin over at some stage to have a look. Easy enough to enter the house?

Hi. I've attached the coordinates and a screen shot of the house marked with a star from oughterard out towards clifden.
Funny enough looking at the map in satellite mode the top gables of the house are shaped as an upside down cross lol..creepy.
Please let me know if it's the same one and of you go inside please take loads of pics. I'm dying to see.
From what I remember the wooden back door was not in good condition and could easily be opened.. there were bats in there too so don't be too startled by that. I wouldn't go inside but if you do please post any pics you do take.

Regards
Chimo

InTheTrees · 18-05-2017 3:54pm

happyoutscan wrote: »

Think I found it on Google Maps. Might take a spin over at some stage to have a look. Easy enough to enter the house?

Did you ever take a look?

Our family has talked about that place for decades too. Its almost a landmark on the road between Galway and clifden.

And people joke about it a lot but i've ever actually heard of anyone going in. personally I wouldnt go near it, not a chance.

Milly33 · 06-06-2017 10:27am

sounds very interesting... MMm might have to try and find this place.

InTheTrees · 06-06-2017 2:20pm

Milly33 wrote: »

sounds very interesting... MMm might have to try and find this place.

Be careful. (I dont think I would have ever posted its location.) And post pictures, i've only ever glimpsed it through the trees.
There's a group of large old evergreen trees in front that are out of place for the area and block any view of it from the road.

As Pjizzle wrote its been bought and sold a few times over the years I think. The driveway was cleaned up at one point.

InTheTrees · 06-06-2017 2:23pm

6th wrote: »

From Paranormal.ie -
WB Yeats
Location: Galway - Renvyle House hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Further Comments: Yeats treated this building as home away from home, and is believed to still reside here. Several of the rooms are also haunted by the ghosts of children.

Room 27 is the haunted room I think.

Although I think its a little fanciful to think the ghost is Yeats. When I was younger I had heard about a young girl. And I think Yeats has been added later to bring in the tourists.

Milly33 · 06-06-2017 7:52pm

thanks for the word of warning, will take it easy

dvkv7 · 10-06-2017 5:14pm

Did you have a look at the house? Very interested to hear.

Milly33 · 10-06-2017 6:58pm

no not yet, have to wait till i can get someone to go with

Chimo29 · 15-09-2018 10:33pm

Milly33 wrote: »

no not yet, have to wait till i can get someone to go with

Did anyone ever look into this house since this conversation? The one on the clifden road from oughtarard? Would love to know. Thinking of going to see at some point.

Milly33 · 17-09-2018 2:03pm

No never managed to get there myself, checked out the one in Oranmore but there isnt a hope of getting in there unless you have a streamers

Chimo29 · 17-09-2018 2:09pm

Milly33 wrote: »

No never managed to get there myself, checked out the one in Oranmore but there isnt a hope of getting in there unless you have a streamers

Hopefully I'll get youbsee it soon. I'll be heading down that way in the next few months anyway. Some people going with me said they'd go in. Not sure if i will though haha...

Chimo29 · 02-11-2018 3:32pm

back again... Well I drove by and it still looks uninhabited. My girlfriend will not stop there so I didn't get the chance to go in and have a look.
If there's anyone who lives nearby, is there any chance you could take some pictures of it and through the window to post on here. I'm surprised its not mentioned much anywhere yet the stories about it amongst locals in Connemara are surreal. Maybe there's a reason for that though...
Any photos would be greatly appreciated

One day I will get to stop and have a proper look hopefully

Chimo29 · 02-11-2018 3:37pm

Milly33 wrote: »

No never managed to get there myself, checked out the one in Oranmore but there isnt a hope of getting in there unless you have a streamers

Milly did you ever get to go see the house in oughterard? Im so curious about this but tend to hold back

Milly33 · 11-11-2018 11:39pm

Hey no i never did, due to baby arrival and no car anymore never called.. Kinda put the ghost hunting behind me...

Djseamus · 17-12-2018 2:58pm

Hey folks. Just came across this post and thought I’d give some information on the lodge just outside of oughterard village. I can tell you all that the lodge is very dangerous as it was actually a soup kitchen during the famine and a lot of people died there. A lot of people have tried to live there over the years but it seems misfortune comes to anyone who attempts to stay there. During the 70’s or 80’s sometime a family with a newborn baby moved in and the baby mysteriously died in the house, with the family moving out soon after. My father passed by there on the way home from school when he was a teenager and he and his friends decided to pick apples out of the trees one evening. Once they had filled a cap with these apples anyway they heard a woman’s voice shouting at them; “these apples are not yours” and my dads friends ran off but my dad waited to see if anyone was there, yet there was no one to be seen. He says he made a big mistake taking the apples with him as he believes it’s brought him misfortune ever since. I myself passed by in a car a few years back. Tried to take a photo on my phone as we passed and my phone just turned off when I hit the shutter button! Definitely a dangerous place and I would recommend keeping a distance. I do have more information to share if anyone is interested and I visit oughterard often with my father as he owns a house and land out there. If anyone wants more info I can provide more as I have a wealth of information from my father and his friends and locals from the village.

Chimo29 · 17-12-2018 6:00pm

Hi djseamus
Thanks for the info. Alot more than I have heard before. My girlfriend is the one who keep A stopping me from going in as I live in Dublin and only pass by there whenever we go to cleggan.
I first heard of this place from my mother when I was a teenager and it's fascinated me since. Only the once have i stopped and looked in and honestly it was so strange. All table set and seemed lived in but yet dusty like it hasn't been inhabited in many years. The back door shook when we went close to it and bats then flew out. Couldn't make this stuff up... I remember saying to my friend at the time this would make the perfect horror movie setting.
That was in 2003 and I haven't gone into the grounds since.
I often wondered why there's nothing on Google about it but maybe that's for a reason too. Unlike the usual haunted house attractions such as Wicklow jail etc maybe it's just not a good place to publicise.
You said it used to be a soup kitchen during the famine years? I just wanted to clarify it is the house directly opposite the lake Lough agraffard? On Google maps is labelled as lake side house.
You said you have more information on it too. I'd love to hear more about it if your willing to write more about it. It's intriguing.
After what you say though I really don't know if I could go back into the grounds and see but I would really like to know more at the same time.
Hope to hear from you soon.

Thanks.

Djseamus wrote: »

Hey folks. Just came across this post and thought I’d give some information on the lodge just outside of oughterard village. I can tell you all that the lodge is very dangerous as it was actually a soup kitchen during the famine and a lot of people died there. A lot of people have tried to live there over the years but it seems misfortune comes to anyone who attempts to stay there. During the 70’s or 80’s sometime a family with a newborn baby moved in and the baby mysteriously died in the house, with the family moving out soon after. My father passed by there on the way home from school when he was a teenager and he and his friends decided to pick apples out of the trees one evening. Once they had filled a cap with these apples anyway they heard a woman’s voice shouting at them; “these apples are not yours” and my dads friends ran off but my dad waited to see if anyone was there, yet there was no one to be seen. He says he made a big mistake taking the apples with him as he believes it’s brought him misfortune ever since. I myself passed by in a car a few years back. Tried to take a photo on my phone as we passed and my phone just turned off when I hit the shutter button! Definitely a dangerous place and I would recommend keeping a distance. I do have more information to share if anyone is interested and I visit oughterard often with my father as he owns a house and land out there. If anyone wants more info I can provide more as I have a wealth of information from my father and his friends and locals from the village.

demanufactured · 02-01-2019 7:45am

Is this the gate?

N59
https://goo.gl/maps/ji7tG8CJDXH2

Chimo29 · 02-01-2019 9:18am

Hi, yes that's the one alright

demanufactured wrote: »

Is this the gate?

N59
https://goo.gl/maps/ji7tG8CJDXH2

demanufactured · 02-01-2019 10:30am

Chimo29 wrote: »

Hi, yes that's the one alright

Cool, I'll take a look next time I'm up that way.

Chimo29 · 02-01-2019 3:52pm

Brilliant. If you can, take some pictures of around the house and through the windows too if possible. If it's too freaky then don't worry but if you could it'd be great. I'm really curious about it now. It's been 15 years and id love to know if it's still the same inside. If your anyway freaked out by these things though be careful lol

demanufactured wrote: »

Cool, I'll take a look next time I'm up that way.

Milly33 · 02-01-2019 7:03pm

Ahh i really want to go now think we are spinning out that way at the weekend might get the chance

Chimo29 · 02-01-2019 7:11pm

We'll if you do please post some pics both inside and out.. i want to go see it but we live so far away so Are only down there one or twice a year and my girlfriend refuses outright to stop there. She believes it has brought me bad fortune before and will again of I go near it lol... and I never drive down to connemara alone anyway so it's hard to get the chance. I'm dying to see inside again after 15 years or so.

Milly33 wrote: »

Ahh i really want to go now think we are spinning out that way at the weekend might get the chance

Milly33 · 02-01-2019 10:08pm

Will we are supposed to head up that way at the weekend so looking hopefully ill have to rem to bring the camera with me.. I suppose you can just park up outside the gate..

Chimo29 · 02-01-2019 10:22pm

Yeah you have to pull in tight against the gate. It's quite close to the road. Please do bring the camera lol. I remember around the back the back door was wooden and rotten and bats flew out of it. It was dusk at the time.

Milly33 wrote: »

Will we are
supposed to head up that way at the weekend so looking hopefully ill have to rem to bring the camera with me.. I suppose you can just park up outside the gate..

demanufactured · 02-01-2019 10:52pm

Chimo29 wrote: »

Brilliant. If you can, take some pictures of around the house and through the windows too if possible. If it's too freaky then don't worry but if you could it'd be great. I'm really curious about it now. It's been 15 years and id love to know if it's still the same inside. If your anyway freaked out by these things though be careful lol

It's just a house, nothing to be freaked about, but it sounds interesting.

nthclare · 03-01-2019 10:25am

A lot of people say that house on the corner off the roundabout near the bus/train station in Ennis is supposed to be haunted.

Also there's a house near Corofin, it's slightly off the beaten track that's supposed to be haunted.
It's quite a spooky looking place to be honest.

Chimo29 · 03-01-2019 3:09pm

Hi just wondering if you got any more info on the place?

Thanks

Djseamus wrote: »

Hey folks. Just came across this post and thought I’d give some information on the lodge just outside of oughterard village. I can tell you all that the lodge is very dangerous as it was actually a soup kitchen during the famine and a lot of people died there. A lot of people have tried to live there over the years but it seems misfortune comes to anyone who attempts to stay there. During the 70’s or 80’s sometime a family with a newborn baby moved in and the baby mysteriously died in the house, with the family moving out soon after. My father passed by there on the way home from school when he was a teenager and he and his friends decided to pick apples out of the trees one evening. Once they had filled a cap with these apples anyway they heard a woman’s voice shouting at them; “these apples are not yours” and my dads friends ran off but my dad waited to see if anyone was there, yet there was no one to be seen. He says he made a big mistake taking the apples with him as he believes it’s brought him misfortune ever since. I myself passed by in a car a few years back. Tried to take a photo on my phone as we passed and my phone just turned off when I hit the shutter button! Definitely a dangerous place and I would recommend keeping a distance. I do have more information to share if anyone is interested and I visit oughterard often with my father as he owns a house and land out there. If anyone wants more info I can provide more as I have a wealth of information from my father and his friends and locals from the village.

Milly33 · 07-01-2019 12:53am

sorry we never got to call today, bit of a scatty day and not the best day to do it as a family member passed away. But fully plan on taking a trip back there

Glassman00 · 27-03-2019 12:47am

Assuming the coordinates given here are correct, I'm going to head there this Sunday. Will take photos.

Tacklebox · 27-03-2019 12:56am

Glassman00 wrote: »

Assuming the coordinates given here are correct, I'm going to head there this Sunday. Will take photos.

There's an old creepy house in Corofin Co Clare too well worth a visit.

It's an old house opposite side of the road to Moy house, slightly up the hill.

Supposedly the last owner went nuts and couldn't handle the place, left it and never even came back to collect their belongings...

Glassman00 · 01-04-2019 4:14pm

Tacklebox wrote: »

There's an old creepy house in Corofin Co Clare too well worth a visit.

It's an old house opposite side of the road to Moy house, slightly up the hill.

Supposedly the last owner went nuts and couldn't handle the place, left it and never even came back to collect their belongings...

I could go check that one out too. Maybe in a couple of weeks.

So I went up to Oughterard today. Forgot yesterday was Mother's Day so had to change plans. I did find an old abandoned house just opposite the lake, before the turn off to the Quiet Man Bridge. I went by the map posted on here earlier.

I don't think it is the house that was talked about here but I went and had a look anyway. Some of the windows were opened and inside it looked like a dumping ground for old gear. There's some newer items in there like a strimmer which suggests that it's probably used recently. Nothing creepy or spectacular about the place.

Down the road from that house, if you were heading back to Oughterard, is an old rusted gate and a house kind of up on a hill, back in behind some trees. I think this may be the one that we're on about here. If it is, well the bad news is that it's all done up pretty and is currently being lived in. There's another entrance to the property just down from the gate.

I didn't want to go snooping around someone's home but there was a mail box just by the new entrance. It was open and I just took a quick peek inside and saw some fresh mail. So yeah, short of asking the owners whether anything spooky is happening, I think that's that. Tried asking some locals about the house in Oughterard but came up empty. I couldn't find any other houses along that stretch that matches up.

I have pictures, mostly again of that other house if anyone is interested. I took a few pictures of the rusty gate and new entrance into the lived property but nothing more for obvious reasons. Where's the best place to upload them for viewing?