Abandoned Ireland

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This ‘angel of death’ can be distinguished by her ghostly wail, which is said to reverberate throughout the castle. So, obviously the dork within me was well on board for listening to a talk all about abandoned buildings, in an abandoned building. How very meta. The sense of history evoked when walking between rooms traversed by people of a different time has an awe-inspiring capability that I find endlessly fascinating. It was bought by Mayo County Council in 2018 for €400,000 with the intention of enhancing and developing it as a nature reserve and tourist attraction. Irish News Hoping to see Bruce Springsteen? Flying to Cardiff may prove far cheaper than going to Dublin

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Connacht District Lunatic Asylum / St Brigid's Psychiatric Hospital, County Galway – our top abandoned place in Ireland The author is interested above all, one senses, in... the stories and power retained by detritus and everyday objects – the crucifix on the wall, the dusty piano, assorted books, the bottle of cod liver oil The idea that they were being watched while exploring this building, especially a convent, is truly chilling. I got goosebumps adding the photos to this blog post so I can only imagine what it was like having been there. MorgueThe camera was pointing towards the canteen door I’d just come through. My friend was standing at the left side of me on the stairs at this moment. I took one shot, then moved a foot to the right and took another. I then continued on up the stairs and finished the shoot. Read more: Inside the glamorous light-filled Louth property on the market for an eye-watering price of €1.9m The council now own the 80 acres of woodland estate overlooking Lough Carra in west Mayo, including the house, courtyard and walled garden and the grounds are open to the public. These busy years faded with the austerity of war, and the property gradually declined and was sold to the State, which failed to care adequately for the house. And so at last its eventual abandonment, although to these all-too-familiar tropes are added a dash of the unexpected: Ridley Scott used the house as a film set; and Brownlie herself first encountered Cairndhu as a member of a paranormal investigations group. For Cairndhu is, on top of everything else, haunted, although one assumes not by Princess Margaret. All houses have an energy, good and bad. I’ve gone into houses in the snow and they’ve been as warm as if the fire was on, and you can feel the warmth and the welcome of the people who lived there. Then there are other houses where you know you’re not welcome, and I would always listen to that, respect it, and leave.”

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Abandoned Ireland: Step into our empty asylums, convents and workhouses — ghosts and poltergeists optional Videos “There does come a point where the country is at capacity in terms of accommodation” says Leo Varadkar 10:00 From Big Houses to humble cottages, schools to prisons, churches to dance halls, these buildings may now be abandoned, but they are far from empty. As a photographer, Brownlie’s instincts are remarkable. In the seemingly ruined and mundane she finds diamonds in the rough; her images of the ordinary ephemera of past lives – dusty love letters, rusting spectacles, photographs yellowed and curled with age – paint the pictures of real people and full lives. Rebecca Brownlie provides a rapid sketch of the house’s 20th-century history: its beginnings as a property built, rebuilt and rebuilt again by a fussy Scottish industrialist; its final iteration as a complicated Edwardian mansion; and its salad days as a focus of what passed for high society in a narrow, unionist-controlled Northern Ireland (Princess Margaret, who seems to feature in every story of the 20th century, inevitably pops up here too).There is something very disarming seeing the contents of someone’s home, someone’s life; abandoned. All the accoutrements of daily life arranged or strewn in a manner wholly unique to the people who once inhabited the space. Northern Ireland Tributes paid to ‘skilful and compassionate’ NI plastic surgeon who has died aged 51 11:20 This house is located 2 kilometres from Tourlestrane Village, and 10km from Tubbercurry. It is also said to be “close to Rivery Moy and Lough Tait”.