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.

Cavalry

Location: Kilbeg - Hill in the area
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Cavalrymen sleep upon their horses under this hill. It is said that firing a gun, which is also hidden within the hill, will wake them.

Frightful Beast

Location: Lough Ree - Waters of the lake
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Circa 800 AD and twentieth century
Further Comments: A swimmer was torn to pieces by a monster after trying to leave a small island in this body of water. A creature was seen in 1954 by several people while out fishing. One of the witnesses, Georgina Carberry, was said to have suffered nightmares weeks after the event. Possibly as a result of this sighting, Captain Lionel Leslie set out to capture the beast using explosives in the first instance and a long net in the second, but with no success. More recently, it has been speculated that the lake is home to a giant eel.

Knocking

Location: Not known - Emo House (now demolished)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Likely nineteenth century
Further Comments: John Seymour wrote of Emo House in this county being haunted by knocking on the front door and the periodic opening and closing of doors.

Guaire

Location: Rathwire - Hillfort
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Hillfort still present
Further Comments: The warrior and chieftain Guaire is reputed to be buried under this hillfort, guarded a savage hound that will let no one near the body.

Steeple of Fire

Location: Rosdalla - Exact location not known
Type: Other
Date / Time: 30 April, 1054 or 1055
Further Comments: A great steeple of fire manifested in the skies over Rosdalla, remaining for some nine hours. Unidentified black birds emerged form it, swooping down and picking up small animals, dropping them from a great height. One of these birds was huge and plucked an oak tree from the ground. The birds eventually flew off and the tower vanished. Some have said that the event was actually one of the earliest tornadoes reported in Europe.

Butler

Location: Tullynally - Tullynally Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The butler fell in love with one of the castle's cooks, but was rejected. He later hanged himself, though has been seen since, walking around the castle and its grounds. One witness saw a thirty year old Victorian woman standing in a guest room.