The Paranormal Database

Child

Location: Ennistymon - Private cottage, south side of town
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2003
Further Comments: A visitor to the cottage fell ill at ease and became convinced that it was haunted, something to do with the death of a child. Another visitor to the cottage experienced nothing in the building but felt that the town had 'the guts and heart knocked out of it.' Later research revealed that several children had been murdered close to the cottage by Crown Auxiliaries during the War of Independence.

Black Hound

Location: Ennistymon (aka Ennistimon) - Ennistymon House (now Falls Hotel)
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The grounds around this house were said to be home to a black dog, which despite its size, was quite harmless.

Coach

Location: Ennistymon (aka Ennistimon) - Wooded glen near stream/waterfall
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: 11 December 1876
Further Comments: A servant of the MacNamaras family heard a phantom coach while walking through this area. He ran, opening gates to let the invisible vehicle through, and it drove past him on the third gate. The family later learned that Admiral Sir Burton MacNamara had died in London.

Singing

Location: Inchiquin - Cahernanoorane (fort)
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: Fairy song was said to have been heard coming from this fort.

Burning Windows

Location: Inchiquin - Inchiquin castle
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: The windows of this ruined castle were said to glow with blue fire when observed from a distance - when approached, the illusion would vanish.

Little Old Woman

Location: Kilchrist - Old church
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1776
Further Comments: This banshee was witnessed by a group of young people from the same family passing the church at night. They spotted an elderly woman with long white hair clapping her hands and wailing. The male members of the group approached the figure, but she vanished. A few days later they heard one of the older members of the family had died while in Dublin.

Lisananima

Location: Kilcorney - Fort (may no longer be present)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: Once known as Lisananima, this fort was said to be haunted by an unknown entity.

Old postcard showing the coast of Kilkee, Ireland.

Beast with Horse's Head

Location: Kilkee - Off coast and near location known as Diamond Rocks
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1850 and September 1871
Further Comments: A sea monster spotted several times during the nineteenth century was reported to have a head like a horse, a mane of seaweed, and a large body which was hidden under the water.

Ambush

Location: Kilkishen - Glenwood area
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Date / Time: 1920s
Further Comments: For years after an ambush which left many RIC men dead, locals reported hearing the screams of wounded people in the area.

Bruckee

Location: Kilkishen - Shandangan Lough
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: A demonic badger known as a Bruckee was said to live in this area. One witness who claimed to have observed the creature said it was hairy, brown and had eyes the size of turnips.

Bloodied mermaid

Location: Killone Lake - Waters of the lake
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Every forty years, exact date unknown
Further Comments: A mermaid who frequented the lake would often steal wine from the crypt beneath the church (or the cellar of Newhall, depending on the storyteller). She was stabbed (or shot) when caught but managed to drag herself back to the lake before dying. The waters are said to turn red with her blood every forty years.

Letherly

Location: Labasheeda - Erribal House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: Letherly was hanged for murder, though this did not prevent him from haunting the home of one of his jurors. The phantom's neck was said to be twisted from the hangman's rope, and it was not long before the family called upon an exorcist to rid themselves of the repulsive ghost.

Donn Dumhach

Location: Lahinch - Sandhills around Dough Castle
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The fairy king known as Donn Dumhach was once believed to live amongst the sandhills.

Eel

Location: Lahinch - Sea
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Little is known about the legend of the eel depicted in Kilmacreehy Church, other than it feasted on corpses.

A submerged town, taken by the sea.

Kilstiveen

Location: Lahinch - Sea west of town
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Date / Time: Prior to disaster (reoccurring)
Further Comments: The town of Kilstiveen was submerged by a giant tidal wave, its inhabitants washed away to drown. The ghost town occasionally is glimpsed by fishermen.

Kilstuitheen

Location: Liscannor - Off coast
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A magical kingdom known as Kilstuitheen or Kilstuiffen once existed in the bay before it was consumed by an earthquake. Every seven years the island briefly returns, any witnesses doomed to die before its next reappearance. It is said the island will permanently return when a golden key belonging to the island's chieftain is rediscovered.

The Pooka.

Pooka

Location: Lisdoonvarna - Corkscrew Hill
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Taking the form of a black horse with fiery eyes, breath of flame and stench of sulphur, the Pooka would patrol the winding route around the mountain.

Old postcard of Lisdoonvarna, Ireland.

Immortality

Location: Lisdoonvarna - Unknown cave between Lisdoonvarna and Ennis
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The waters of a secret cave located between these two places is said to make the old young, although anyone who actively sought to bathe within it was never seen again.

Kilstiffin

Location: Loop Head - Off coast
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Kilstiffin (or Kilstapheen) is another one of Ireland's lost islands. It was said that towers from the city could sometimes be spotted emerging from the sea, and that localised storms periodically manifested over the site.

Hump

Location: Lough Cullaun - Waters of the lough
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 24 June 1996
Further Comments: Tony 'Doc' Shiels watched a hump glide through the water, the sighting lasting several seconds.

Sleeping City

Location: Lough Cullaunyheeda - Beneath the waters
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The chieftain of the sunken city, reported to be hidden under the lough, sleeps until needed to win the final battle.

Back Chair

Location: Lough Fergus - Cairns on north shore
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: One of the stones was said to take the form of a chair, where people would sit to cure their backache. It was also said that the water of the lough could never boil, could not drown anyone, and it cured cattle of disease.

Brief Visitor

Location: Lough Graney - Waters of the Lake
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Every seven years (exact time unknown)
Further Comments: Said to resemble a giant eel, this monstrous creature appears only once every seven years.

'Lion'

Location: Mountshannon - Woodpark Forest Park
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Late October 2025
Further Comments: After sightings and video of a suspected lion in the park, police investigated and discovered the creature to be a Newfoundland dog named Mouse, with a haircut resembling that of the big cat.

A Banshee.

Not a Banshee?

Location: Newmarket on Fergus - Lough Gaish
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Early 1900s?
Further Comments: Residents who lived close to the lough reported hearing the wail of a banshee which lasted for several nights. When the cries ceased and no one died, the locals doubted whether the sounds came from a banshee... A little man in green was also spotted in the area. Matching the description of a leprechaun, a witness tried to grab him for his gold, but the little man vanished.