Anniversary Ghosts / Apparitions / Black Dogs / Book Review / Ghost Stories / Haunted Hotels / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings / Photographed Ghosts / Poltergiests / Review
by Ian · Published July 4, 2012 · Last modified October 14, 2018
Peter Underwood, a world renowned expert on the paranormal, has published a new book focussing on Irish Ghosts. I had great hopes for this book having owned a copy of his 1973 book Gazetteer of Scottish & Irish Ghosts for a number of years, and I’m pleased to say I’ve not being disappointed.
Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Irish Fairies / Irish Folktales
by Ian · Published October 18, 2011 · Last modified December 11, 2018
The following story from’ Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry’ by William Butler Yeats (1888) takes place in Fannet, which is now known as Fanad, a peninsular by Lough Swilly. Although the tale includes a trip across the length of Ireland, according to the story the hero states he is nearly home when approaching Tamney, so I have used this village for my map reference below.
Ancient Sites / Druidism / Early Christianity / Legends / Occult / Occult Traditions
by Ian · Published May 16, 2011 · Last modified December 11, 2018
According to tradition, whilst St Patrick was converting the Irish pagans to Christianity in the 5th century, he had a vision whilst in a cave on Saints Island, just off the shore of Lough Derg.
Ancient Sites / Aquatic Monsters / Legends
by Ian · Published May 7, 2011 · Last modified December 11, 2018
Lough Derg is a 2200 acre lake in County Donegal, famous for St Patrick’s Purgatory which is still a popular of pilgrimage as it has been many centuries.
According to legend the Cornu was a great black bird, described as being like a wingless and featherless heron that occupied a cavern at the medieval pilgrimage site of St Patrick’s Purgatory, Saint’s Island,
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