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This castle was featured on the cover of several editions of the novel The Riders by Tim Winton. In 1996, Leap Castle's history and hauntings were examined in Castle Ghosts of Ireland by Robert Hardy. [12] A chapter in "The World of Lore: Dreadful Places" by Aaron Mahnke is also dedicated to Leap Castle. It is titled The Tainted Well in ...
Mildred Darby told him many of the ghost stories of the castle. [8] Another visitor was St. John D. Seymour who wrote the True Book of Irish Ghost Stories (1914) and who documents various diverse hauntings. [9] The creature described by Darby as haunting the house is known as The Elemental. According to a letter Mildred Darby sent to Sydney ...
Almost two hundred years later in 1837, Duke George Montagu built the current castle to serve as the residence of the Montagu family in Ireland. In the 1950s, the castle and estate were sold by Alexander Montagu to a business man from Tandragee by the name of Mr. Hutchison, and so the castle came to house the Tayto potato crisp factory and the ...
Leap (/ ˈ l ɛ p /; Irish: Léim Uí Dhonnabháin or An Léim) [2] [3] is a village in County Cork, Ireland, situated at the north end of Glandore harbour, several miles inland from the seacoast. It is on the N71 road which runs through West Cork from Cork city .
Dunamase or the Rock of Dunamase (Irish: Dún Másc [2] "fort of Másc") is a rocky outcrop in County Laois, Ireland. [2] Rising 46 metres (151 ft) above a plain, it has the ruins of Dunamase Castle, a defensive stronghold dating from the early Hiberno-Norman period with a view across to the Slieve Bloom Mountains.
Lea Castle is a ruined medieval castle near Portarlington, County Laois. A timber castle was built in the late 12th or early 13th century and replaced by a later stone castle. [ 1 ] The remains of the castle mostly date to the 13th century and consist of a four-storey donjon and a gatehouse .
Castlerock is a seaside village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.It is five miles west of Coleraine, and part of Causeway Coast and Glens district. It is very popular with summer tourists, with numerous apartment blocks and two caravan sites.
O'Brien, Gillian. Sunday Independent; Dublin [Dublin]. 25 Oct 2020: 10. I couldn't complete my book without a visit to Leap Castle in Co Offaly, which claims to be the 'world's most haunted castle'. The castle was built by the O'Carrolls in the 15th century, and many of the tormented souls said to haunt it are mercenaries the family betrayed.