This is one of irelands most famous ghost stories,it tells the story of a wind swept cottage on the top of hill with a forest surrounding it,living in this house lived a husband wife and 6 girls 2 boys.The house is in records from the late 1800s,michael and bridget were living there in 1907. tragedy struck when michael died as a result of an accident when he fell from a cart on his way to the mill. This left Bridget on her own with 8 children. it was not long after this that strange things started to happen in the family home,which consisted of knocking noises and loud banging in the roofspace which you can see in photo below.
A lot of the activity was centred around Ann who was in her early twenties at the time this was going on. There has been two exorcisms carry out in the cottage by Fr Peter Smyth and Fr Eugene Coyle,this was unsuccessful in the long run as it still continued. And at a last resort they left the house in 1913 and took passage to New york.
