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Haunted Houses etc in Clare/Galway?

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  • #52
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Glassman00 wrote: »
    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?

    This gate ?
    N59
    https://maps.app.goo.gl/KvBtX


  • #53
    Glassman00
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Glassman00


    Yep. That's the one. Here's my picture for comparison.

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  • #54
    Glassman00
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Glassman00


    Also, here's the entrance to the property just down the road from that gate.

    aUYKhU.jpg


  • #55
    Glassman00
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Glassman00


    Took a trip to Corofin a couple of days ago. It involved some driving around the area but I found the house out there. It's still abandoned and shuttered up. As you look into the yard the first thing I saw was an old wheel chair sitting there just beyond the gate.

    Getting into the property is no hassle. Just a quick jump over the crumbling walls. There's some large storage sheds right by the entrance next to the gates. There's a lot of junk thrown in there. Doors are hanging off or gone.

    The house itself sits up on a hill. It looks like a one-storey at first glance but there's actually a large basement level. Apparently, this is where the kitchen would have been located along with many other rooms. The house is larger than you'd think at first glance. It stretches right back. At the rear of the house you can see down into a small court yard and get a better idea of the basement/first floor structure.

    It's locked up tighter than a drum though so I didn't go inside. There's a lot of broken windows caused by local youth, so I was told, but the shutters are secured. Out the back of the house is an old tower in view. On the property right at the back also is another smaller house structure, mostly dilapidated. The roof is missing off most of it. It could also have been another work shed. A large arch that leads out to the road up to the tower is located there too.

    Got talking to a few locals. Found out the name of the place is called Adelphi House. Apparently it was home to a Mary Fitzgerald at one time and then a man named Brian Blood. I never mentioned anything about ghost stories but they brought it up sure enough.

    One story of Mary was that when she would have dinner guests over, they would hear talking and comotion coming from the kitchen. Thinking it was staff, they would make nothing of it. Mary however apparently had no staff on hand for such things. And the kitchen was usually empty when she wasn't using it.

    So the house is locally believed to be haunted. No stories about an owner driven mad however. One of the locals I talked to said you wouldn't catch him dead in the property, let alone inside the house though. So there's that. The word around the place is that a man from Dublin bought the property 10 years ago and began some work on it, trying to restore it back. That would explain some of the construction signs I saw around the place as well as the hard hat just sitting on a wall. Well, whatever he was doing, this buyer hasn't been seen near the property in almost a decade. Work stopped shortly after it started.

    So, someone owns it but isn't doing anything with it. I didn't get any creepy or weird feelings while poking about the place. Kind of felt peaceful to be honest. It's a quiet area with a view of the lake. There's also supposed to be a grotto there too but I didn't find one.

    Here's a link to a ghost story I found where the house is mentioned.
    https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922359/4874103/5078644


  • #56
    decko11
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭decko11


    Glassman00 wrote: »
    Took a trip to Corofin a couple of days ago. It involved some driving around the area but I found the house out there. It's still abandoned and shuttered up. As you look into the yard the first thing I saw was an old wheel chair sitting there just beyond the gate.

    Getting into the property is no hassle. Just a quick jump over the crumbling walls. There's some large storage sheds right by the entrance next to the gates. There's a lot of junk thrown in there. Doors are hanging off or gone.

    The house itself sits up on a hill. It looks like a one-storey at first glance but there's actually a large basement level. Apparently, this is where the kitchen would have been located along with many other rooms. The house is larger than you'd think at first glance. It stretches right back. At the rear of the house you can see down into a small court yard and get a better idea of the basement/first floor structure.

    It's locked up tighter than a drum though so I didn't go inside. There's a lot of broken windows caused by local youth, so I was told, but the shutters are secured. Out the back of the house is an old tower in view. On the property right at the back also is another smaller house structure, mostly dilapidated. The roof is missing off most of it. It could also have been another work shed. A large arch that leads out to the road up to the tower is located there too.

    Got talking to a few locals. Found out the name of the place is called Adelphi House. Apparently it was home to a Mary Fitzgerald at one time and then a man named Brian Blood. I never mentioned anything about ghost stories but they brought it up sure enough.

    One story of Mary was that when she would have dinner guests over, they would hear talking and comotion coming from the kitchen. Thinking it was staff, they would make nothing of it. Mary however apparently had no staff on hand for such things. And the kitchen was usually empty when she wasn't using it.

    So the house is locally believed to be haunted. No stories about an owner driven mad however. One of the locals I talked to said you wouldn't catch him dead in the property, let alone inside the house though. So there's that. The word around the place is that a man from Dublin bought the property 10 years ago and began some work on it, trying to restore it back. That would explain some of the construction signs I saw around the place as well as the hard hat just sitting on a wall. Well, whatever he was doing, this buyer hasn't been seen near the property in almost a decade. Work stopped shortly after it started.

    So, someone owns it but isn't doing anything with it. I didn't get any creepy or weird feelings while poking about the place. Kind of felt peaceful to be honest. It's a quiet area with a view of the lake. There's also supposed to be a grotto there too but I didn't find one.

    Here's a link to a ghost story I found where the house is mentioned.
    https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922359/4874103/5078644


    Very interesting

    in the 70 and 80's Adelphi was owned by Frank Quinn and his wife Vera Considine.

    They had no kids and my Dad was a nephew of Vera

    I loved as a kid visiting the place - the house, the grounds, the lake

    and Frank did tell me stories about the ghost - I forget the name but it was a female name - She would take things - but then if he asked her she would leave them back

    I think my parents thought he was winding me and my brother up - but having found this thread - who knows


  • #57
    Becklegs
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Becklegs


    My boyfriend and I visited this house back in the summer of 2016 as my Uncle always told us of the family being forced out by a poltergeist many years ago and the Bishop of Galway unsuccessfully exorcising this house. He said people tried to hang curtains up in it but they were always torn down and even though bets were made to stay in the house overnight, no one ever managed it. We made a short video of entering via the rusty iron gate but as soon as the house came into sight, it was obvious someone was living there at the time so we retreated quickly.

    I have a video link for the abovementioned video but Boards.ie won't let me post as I am a new user. Sorry


  • #58
    decko11
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭decko11


    hi - was that the Clare (Corofin) or Galway (oughterard) house ?


  • #59
    Becklegs
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Becklegs


    Hi - this is the lakeside house on N59 outside Oughterard, Co. Galway.


  • #60
    Chimo29
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Chimo29


    Anyone have any more info on this house on the N59 or pictures. no pictures from above posts are showing.
    The hosue I was originally talking about is right opposite a lake, lough agraffard on the right when coming from oughterard.. literally about 30 feet behind some trees off the road. there is an old iron gate alright. not up on a hill though. its literally about 30 feet from the road amongst a darkened area with trees.
    53.423930, -9.406451 these are the google map coordinates,
    It this the same house you guys are talking of? I'd love to see pics from inside but don't dare to go near this again after my 2003 experience.. although not so bad but had some pretty bad years after that for a while. Luckily past it all now.


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  • #61
    Joe Don Dante
    Registered Users Posts: 678 ✭✭✭Joe Don Dante


    tossed now



  • #62
    JKeane2004
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭JKeane2004


    Any update on the oughterard house? Fairly sure I visited it as a kid and have a vague memory of it, would love to know what it’s like now. Might visit it the next time I’m up there



  • #63
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Would love to hear if anyone has been out that way lately.

    I don't frequent Oughterard anymore.


    (I used to be Demanufactured on here years ago, posted somewhere up this thread.)



  • #64
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121941862#Comment_121941862

    I see further up the house is now occupied.



  • #65
    L Grey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭L Grey


    I'm in Galway for a bit.

    I might pop out to have a look.

    Curious now.



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