Abandoned Ireland

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Two exorcisms were performed (the first ever recorded in Ireland) by Fr Peter Smyth and Fr Eugene Coyle from Maguiresbridge. Abandoned Ireland is packed with beautiful, evocative pictures of neglected buildings which now serve as crumbling time capsules of days past. An ancient island with a romantic history and lush green landscape, Ireland’s culture stretches back to the time of St Patrick and the first Christian monks and includes the Norman invasion, clan wars, mass emigration and partition in the early. Brownlie is instead intent on capturing houses – large and small, mansions and cottages, silent railway stations, echoing prisons and empty dance halls, military forts and hotels – which retain a breath of life.

Abandoned Ireland travels the length and breadth of the island of Ireland visiting and documenting our forgotten buildings, highlighting their social importance, and bringing their stories back to life through the medium of photography.MOORE HALL, COUNTY MAYO: Connolly says this abandoned house was built at the end of the 18th century by George Moore 'who had made a fortune in Spain in the wine and brandy trade'.

Illustrated with 180 photographs, Abandoned Ireland provides a fascinating pictorial exploration of the little-known corners of this enchanting land. Fascinating coffee table book full of eerily beautiful photographs of Ireland's forgotten and abandoned places and the history surrounding them. She left the paranormal group, focused on photographing abandoned buildings and started a Facebook page, Abandoned N. He adds: 'It was designed by John Roberts, who was also the architect for Tyrone House in County Galway, as well as Waterford Cathedral. I travelled to an iron ore mine deep in the Sahara Desert on one of the world's most extreme railways.She hasn't left the village since a traumatic stay in London as a young woman at the end of the 1980s. One of them described hearing snoring in the dark; he also said that when sitting on the bed it felt like snakes were moving under him and when a light was lit a human bulk was seen to collapse under the sheets, which then developed a new swelling and the snoring started afresh.

It’s made her passionate about trying to save, or at least document, our abandoned buildings before they’re destroyed or altered. There are thousands of ruined castles, abbeys, churches, ancient sites, houses and mills spread around the island of Ireland. Bursting with engaging and often surprising details, each haunting photograph is an invitation to immerse yourself in history, and an Ireland long gone. Brownlie’s interest in abandoned buildings began some 10 years ago, when she worked with a paranormal group, scouting locations for investigations, but her fascination with the supernatural was honed in childhood by her mum’s stories of the eerie Gill Hall Estate nearby in Dromore, Co Down. Photographer Rebecca Brownlie, from Maghaberry, sums it up succinctly in the introduction to her recently published book Abandoned Ireland – it’s about “who lived there, what the building had once been and, ultimately, why it was now abandoned.He has also written for the Telegraph, Evening Standard, Metro and Saga Magazine, and is the author of three books. Priests came to the house and are recorded to have witnessed the strange occurrences for themselves. TEMPLEMORE BATHS, BELFAST: This run-down bath house in Belfast, Connolly says, opened at the end of the 19th century. And so at last its eventual abandonment, although to these all-too-familiar tropes are added a dash of the unexpected: Ridley Scott used the house as a film set; and Brownlie herself first encountered Cairndhu as a member of a paranormal investigations group.