Strange Mist

Location: Allen - Bog of Allen
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Before a large part of this boggy land was drained, it was renowned for strange shapes, vaguely human in appearance, which appeared at night. One man who walked across the area encountered a strange cloud which enveloped him, filling the poor man with terror, before it drifted off.

Wishing Stone

Location: Avoca - Motto Stone
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: If a person can walk around the stone three times without thinking of a goat, their wish is granted!

Cleaners

Location: Ballymoy - Ballymoy Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Saturday (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Invisible wraiths are said to sweep the castle clean each Saturday.

Monks

Location: Bannow Bay - Tintern Abbey
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Travelling by the light of burning torches, a line of monks can be seen moving towards the abbey, chanting Gregorian hymns.

Floating Candles

Location: Birr - Leap Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2002
Further Comments: Strange lights were constantly reported floating around within the building before it was converted into a family home in 1991. Since then, other ghosts have been reported within, including an old man seen sitting by the fireplace and a woman in a red dress.

Unfaithful Girl

Location: Bray - Lover's Leap rock, Dargle Valley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 20 June (or Midsummer Eve) (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The female ghost which appears here once a year is said to be that of a woman who was unfaithful to her boyfriend. He died of grief, and the woman sat in mourning over his grave continuously for several days before taking her life on the rock, leaping into the river below.

Henrietta Travescant

Location: Carlingford - Carlingford Castle and Abbey ruins
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A pirate before taking up the residency of Abbess, this woman is thought to be one of the pair of shades seen within the ruins.

Red Girl

Location: Carlingford - Rectory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: This figure was watched as she moved towards the door of the rectory, followed by a priest. Both figures vanished, though the girl has been seen since within the building.

Empty Coffin

Location: Castleboro - Castleboro House
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: 1856
Further Comments: Lady Carew reported seeing a phantom funeral procession on the lawn of the house - two days later she was informed of her husband's death, occurring at the moment she had her 'vision'.

Stable Boy

Location: Castledermot - Kilkea Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This lad was killed after being discovered in the bedroom of the owner's daughter. He still walks around the building looking for his former girlfriend. The castle also carries stories about being haunted by a former wizard who once resided there, who remains in a trance under the structure.

Man in Grey Coat

Location: Celbridge - Castletown Manor House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The spectre dressed in a long grey coat is more likely to be heard laughing mockingly. One legend attached to the building has the Devil paying a previous owner a visit - it is unclear whether the haunting is connected to this event.

Big Eyed Dog

Location: Clane - Clongowes Wood College
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom hound with glowing eyes which walked the corridors at night was said by students to be the manifestation of a hanged murderer. The building was also once witness to a Crisis Manifestation, when the ghost of a Marshall appeared to two sisters - they identified him as their brother, who, it was later discovered, was killed in action at the time of the visitation.

Coach and Four

Location: Clondalkin - Newlands House, currently part of the Newlands Golf Club
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Newlands was once owned by Arthur Wolfe, Chief Justice of Ireland; the ghostly coach is said to follow the route it once took, taking Arthur's body away from his home.

Mistaken Soldier

Location: Clonegal - Huntingdon Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: His ghostly form since seen knocking on the castle door, this trooper was mistakenly killed by his own forces after returning back to the castle disguised as an English Royalist soldier. The castle is also haunted by former owner Barbara St Lege, one of her maids, and several monks.

Jacky Dalton

Location: Clonmellon - Killua Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: With wild yellow hair, Jacky's ghost still moves around the castle at night. Jacky was a land steward to Sir Benjamin Chapman, though he turned to drink and finally suicide after his employer's death.

The Thin Man

Location: Clonony - Clonony Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Spotted by a man driving past the ruins at night, this gaunt figure appeared to be bathed in misty light.

Archibald Jacob

Location: Clough Mills - Road between Clough Mills and Wilton Castle, Black Stream area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Renown for his monstrous temper, Captain Jacob died when his horse stumbled and threw him from the saddle, breaking his neck. Jacob's ghost remains in the area.

Harry Alcock

Location: Clough Mills - Wilton Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1840 onwards
Further Comments: Once a year, as the sun sets, a phantom carriage moves away from the castle carrying Harry. The ghostly sight was said to have been so common that dozens of people would gather to watch the scene.

James II

Location: Donore - Athcarne Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: James II stayed here just before his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne, and now his shade lingers on. He is not alone here, however. A crazy looking girl walks around the area with her hands caked in blood, while a soldier has been observed hanging by his neck from a tree.

Hanging Woman

Location: Drogheda - Stagrennan House, Mornington Road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: Unable to sleep, Frank K rolled over in his bed to turn on the lamp and spotted a woman standing with her back turned to him a couple of metres away. She had mousy brown curly hair in a pony tail tied with a black ribbon, and was wearing a black and red vertically striped corset top with white puffy shoulders. Frank thought the woman had entered his bedroom by accident, before realising that she was floating off the ground, and that she had a rope around her neck which stretched towards the ceiling. The apparition quickly faded away.

Butcher

Location: Dublin - 118 Summerhill (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early 1966
Further Comments: Unease spread amongst workmen in the process of demolishing the house after they spotted a spectral butcher moving around the rooms. The ghost had previously been reported in two other houses along the road which had already been knocked down.

Woman

Location: Dublin - 13 Henrietta Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Now thought to have been exorcised, this phantom woman wearing old fashioned clothing was seen by neighbours looking in through the window.

Footsteps

Location: Dublin - 7 and 8 Hendrick Street (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s
Further Comments: Starting in the 1920s, and lasting for a period of around thirty years, occupants in number 7 reported hearing the sound of shoeless footsteps which traversed the rooms and corridors. Number 8 was haunted by a man who was seen standing by the fireplace.

Lord Norbury

Location: Dublin - Cabra district
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Winter (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The otherworldly black hound which stalks the area is said to be the ghost of Lord Norbury, a harsh judge renown for his overuse of the hangman's noose.

Screams of the Drowning

Location: Dublin - Deey Bridge and canal lock
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A passenger boat sunk here in the eighteenth century; many of the occupants drowned, and their psychic screams continue to this day.