You can book all of the featured castles on booking.com by following the links.Castle Leslie, County Monaghan, IrelandCastle Leslie’s ghost is a family member, Norman Leslie, who, following his death in World War I, is said to have swapped the trenches for the Red Room at the castle....
A ghost appears at the castle when a Campbell chief is close to death. Kilcosgriff Castle Kilcosgriff, County Limerick, IrelandOmen, Lady in White The wife of a former Lord Langford, the ghost of this lady appears prior to a death in the Langford family Leeds Castle Maidstone, Kent,...
Castle Leap, Ireland; photo:D. Brands 8. Moosham Castle, Austria Salem, Massachusetts wasn’t the only city to unleash a brutal witch hunt; the one in Unternberg, Austria might have been even crueler and bloodier. Unternberg’s archbishop imprisoned countless women and girls suspected of witc...
Whether they’re castles in Ireland or top resorts ranked on our Readers’ Choice Awards, these hotels all have a little... extra spirit. We’ve compiled 55 of the scariest stays out there, from a storied boutique hotel in Manhattan once frequented by Andy Warhol to a permanently docked ...
While you’re touring the hundreds of pubs lining the streets ofDublin, be sure to stop in at The Brazen Head, Ireland’s oldest pub, where you might catch a glimpse of a local ghost. After you’ve had your fill oftraditional Irish food, spend the night atShelbourne Hotel, Dublin’s...
Arrive Dublin Airport and pick up your rental. Drive to Offaly for your 4-night stay at Kinnitty Castle with a stop en route at Kilkea Castle, built in 1180 and the oldest inhabited Castle in Ireland. Local folklore maintains that the castle is haunted by the ghost of Earl “the Wizard...
fingers down the back of an astonished waitress; a disembodied head that once floated out of the great hall; not to mention white and grey figures seen at several different locations, and you begin to understand why Balgonie has the reputation of being one of the most haunted castles in ...
Ireland is a land of paradoxes- it is beautiful but bleak; mystical yet strangely modern; peaceful yet divided; rich in talent yet poor in resources. There is mystery in the haunted landscape of Ireland's ruined castles, its prehistoric stone circles, its abandoned Stately Homes and its ...
Rural castles were often situated near to features that were integral to life, such as ponds, mills and fertile land. In some countries, before a castle could be built it was necessary to obtain the permission of the king through a licence to crenellate, or else the builder risked it ...
of these imposing bastions remain as striking today as ever they did in the past, and the spectres that haunt them stands as testimony both to the violence of the age in which they were constructed and to the hundreds of years and unrest that the castles of haunted Wales of borne witness...