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    Haunted in an Irish castle

    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Nov 05, 2018 6 minutes

    KILMAINE, Ireland - Ireland is a proudly haunted island, its landscape defined by ancient cairns and standing stones, by ruined abbeys, castles and cottages.

    The spectral comes in many famous forms: the ladies - the White Lady of Kinsale (who threw herself off the walls of Charles Fort after her husband was shot); the Waiting Lady of Ardgillan Castle (on vigil for her drowned husband); the Faceless Lady of Belvelly Castle (survived a siege but went insane upon discovering she was no longer beautiful) - the incarcerated (Cork District Lunatic Asylum, the Wicklow Jail); and the casualties of war (the Jacobites of the Battle of Aughrim and King James II who is said to haunt Athcarne Castle six miles from where he died in the Battle of the Boyne).

    So if you are looking, there are plenty of ghosts to be found in Ireland.

    Or you can do what we did and just bring them with you.

    My family and I traveled to Ireland in June 2017 to scatter my parents'

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