The Most Haunted Place in Ireland - Leap Castle

Leap Castle is sometimes referred to as the most haunted place in Ireland, it certainly has a very bloody history.

It is in Co. Offaly, just outside the town of Roscrea. It was in the middle of the thirteenth century by the Clan O'Bannon built and it became known as the Ui Bhanain glue or the O'Bannon's Leap. The O'Bannon's been the subject of the decision O'Carroll clan. It is in the Annals of the Four Masters, is recorded in the early sixteenth century the counts ofKildare tried, Gerald Fitzgerald to use the castle, but was defeated by the O'Carroll's.

Around the same time a fierce and bitter struggle for succession ensued in the O'Carroll's, they turned against each other. One brother killed another, who was a priest, in what has become known as "Bloody Chapel" while conducting a ceremony.

Another source of evil, which might have contributed to the present existence of ghosts has been discovered in the latenineteenth century. It was a dungeon, which is a dungeon that is only accessible by a large hatch in the ceiling. There were spikes at the bottom of the shaft, were detainees hurled it, if not immediately killed, they were impaled on the spikes or died die of hunger. It took three truckloads workers to perform all the human bones at the bottom. As a result, it's bloody history, took the stronghold of a reputation, haunted, it was finally burnt by the fire, boarded upLocals avoid it completely.

In 1659, the castle passed into the possession of the family Darby, many of Darby's High Sheriff of King's County (today, Co. Offaly) were. In the late 1800s, Mildred Darby was involved with the occult and said she released one of the most heinous, evil spirits and disturbing - the elementary. It is said, a small, stooped figure, accompanied by a foul stench and smell of sulfur appears. was sold in the 1970s, the castle is an Australianwho is cast out, "The Exorcist" declared that they not get rid of the spirits, but they ensured that it was no longer malignant. In 1991, the castle of Sean Ryan, the company bought it's restoration.