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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. I was sitting in my lodge reading when armed men who were perfect strangers to me came to the door and demanded the keys. I asked what for and was told that a column was going to be put up there for the night… I know that behind that doorway was just an empty kitchen and canteen,” says Brownlie. “There was no other door in, no cupboards that anyone could have been hiding in, it had been completely stripped.” Rebecca Brownlie grew up in a small rural village in County Down, Northern Ireland. When she was just twelve years old, she won her first camera on a TV game show and her love of photography was sparked. From that day on, a camera is rarely far from her side. Her passion for abandoned buildings and love of photography have led her to appear on several local television shows featuring some of Ireland’s lost buildings. She is an avid adventurer, and can be regularly found hiking up mountainsides with her four-legged friend and children in tow. Perhaps it’s the stark contrast between the pervasive quietude of these buildings and the life that at one point existed between the walls that makes abandoned buildings so compelling to see. This is certainly the case for the photos of the abandoned primary school.

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The haunting photograph, captured from above by a drone, shows the abandoned ruins of a large Irish stately home with some of the trees growing so close, they are beginning to take over the house. With a set of keys to explore Cairndhu House every weekend, the bug for the derelict had well and truly set in and the wheels were in motion for Abandoned Ni. Focus began to shift from paranormal interest towards insight into the history and lives of the people who lived and worked in buildings from years gone by. Cottages The image — which can be seen below — confirmed her long-held belief in a supernatural world. However, it wasn’t the Co Down mum-of-two’s first brush with the paranormal. Some visitors to the overgrown Moore Hall and its grounds have described it as “magical”, a “hidden gem” and something out of a “fairy tale”. At five I went to the place and found the whole house was seething in a mass of flames. I at once saw that all was hopeless.Two exorcisms were performed (the first ever recorded in Ireland) by Fr Peter Smyth and Fr Eugene Coyle from Maguiresbridge. These proved to be unsuccessful. A picture emerged on social media recently of a mystery mansion hidden deep inside a forest somewhere in Ireland. This ‘angel of death’ can be distinguished by her ghostly wail, which is said to reverberate throughout the castle. Connacht District Lunatic Asylum / St Brigid's Psychiatric Hospital, County Galway – our top abandoned place in Ireland Whether you're a believer in the paranormal or just a fan of a good scare, Ireland is riddled with abandoned places that will creep out even the bravest of souls.

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In previous posts I’ve talked about my penchant for old buildings. I’ve done a paranormal tour of East Belfast’s Strand Cinema, explored Hillsborough Castle, traversed Belfast learning about street art brightening up many abandoned buildings in the city; and much more besides. The abandoned mansion is Moore Hall in Carnacon, County Mayo, the former house and estate of the Moore family - and it has a fascinating history. 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. 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. This is why technology can be so transforming. It’s eminently sensible to use the swarm of people out and about in different areas to do the hunting for vacant homes and then to make targeted interventions where it’s possible."This nineteenth-century manor was home to Thomas Lefroy (Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and reported muse for Pride and Prejudice’s Mr Darcy) . Despite the fairy-tale feel of the limestone exterior, turrets, oriel windows and gables, the interior is plagued with so much water damage, vegetation growth, and vandalism that it – alongside the estate’s other abandoned buildings – looks like a forgotten ghost-town. I had no option but to give up the keys, and suspecting what was on I pointed out to the leader that the house was not Colonel Moore's property. This had no effect.

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George Moore, the owner, wrote a letter to The Morning Post two weeks after the burning where he quoted someone who described watching the ancestral home go up in flames.

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The workhouses and prisons in Ireland at that time were suffering from overcrowding, which forced them to offload some of their more troublesome inmates to asylums, which meant that many of the patients did not actually need psychiatric care and were there for living purposes only, but it was against the law to refuse entry to anyone. It was given the name Asylum X due to its cross-shaped layout. 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 With death at its centre, it is clear why this former city mortuary in Belfast sits high on our list of abandoned places in Ireland that will creep you out. However, visiting is not advised for your own safety due to the deteriorating state and would also be considered trespassing as this is private property. It was burned down 100 years ago during the Irish Civil War by members of the anti-treaty Irish Republican Army and was never restored.The house came to a terrible end on February 1, 1923 when it was burned down during the Irish Civil War as Maurice Moore, the brother of the owner of Moore Hall, was viewed as pro-Treaty. Read more: Huge Irish home with massive garden and four beds hits the market for little over €300,000