9 Haunted Places in Ireland
Every case file on record in Ireland — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Charleville Castle
B · Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland — A Gothic revival fortress where a little girl who fell down the stairs in 1861 still plays.…
Greystones ('Demon House')
B · Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland — An ordinary Irish semi-detached house that a 2013 TV investigation called the most haunted in Ireland.…
The Hellfire Club — The Devil's Card Table
B · Montpelier Hill, County Dublin, Ireland — A ruined 1725 hunting lodge on a Dublin mountaintop, built from the stones of a 5,000-year-old passage tomb and leased to an aristocratic club whose card games legend says Satan himself joined.…
Kilmainham Gaol
A · Dublin, Ireland — Dublin's granite prison of 1796-1924, where the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were shot in the stonebreakers' yard — now Ireland's most visited dark-heritage museum.…
Leap Castle
A · County Offaly, Ireland — Ireland's most feared castle — an 'Elemental' spirit guards an oubliette stuffed with human bones.…
Loftus Hall
B · Fethard-on-Sea, County Wexford, Ireland — Ireland's 'most haunted house', where a card game with a shipwrecked stranger revealed a cloven hoof beneath the table — and the devil left through the roof.…
Newgrange — The 5,000-Year Winter Solstice Machine
A · Brú na Bóinne, County Meath, Ireland — Older than the pyramids and Stonehenge: the great passage tomb of the Boyne valley, built around 3200 BC, its 19-metre passage aligned so precisely that for a few mornings around each winter solstice …
St Michan's — The Mummies of Church Street
B · Church Street, Dublin 7, Ireland — The crypt where Dublin shook hands with its dead: beneath St Michan's Church, in the dry lime-sweetened air that mummifies instead of decays, the vaults hold the leather-skinned dead of three centurie…
Lough Derg — St Patrick's Purgatory, the Island Door
A · Station Island, Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland — Medieval Europe's door to purgatory: on Station Island in this remote Donegal lake, tradition held that St Patrick, shown the entrance to the other world in a cave, left behind a pit through which pil…