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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 .
Leixlip was a possible site of the Battle of Confey, in which the Viking King Sigtrygg Caech of Dublin defeated the Irish King of Leinster around the year 917.The first settlement at Leixlip was an outpost of Early Scandinavian Dublin, built at the furthest point where longships could be rowed up the Liffey.
Kinnitty Castle or Castle Bernard is a 19th-century gothic revival castle and hotel in Kinnitty (Cionn Eitigh), County Offaly, Ireland. It is located contiguous to Droughtville and Lettybrook, north of the Slieve Bloom Mountains on the R421 regional road between the villages of Kinnitty and Cadamstown .
Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, is a Palladian country house built in 1722 for William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. [2] It formed the centrepiece of an 800-acre (320 ha) estate. The estate was sold in 1965, and later sub-divided.
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.