This post will be a bit of a departure from the posts so far. To date, I've tried to give ye a flavour of what we're planning for our new website. But, the key to any website is the content.
We want the site to be fun as well as useful. So, one section I'm pushing for will be a sort of myths and folklore section where we can include some of the local stories and legends. I'd also like to include a reminiscience section where people can share stories and anecdotes from today or going back the years.
So, in that vein, here is my own contribution to the Ghost story section.
Variations of this story have been told to me by a number of people living in and around Foxford, County Mayo.
On the road into Foxford (coming from Straid) is a good sized green house on the left side of the road.
Supposedly, this house was built for a young couple who moved in after their wedding. But, on thier first night in the new house, they were tormented by a strange noises, flashing lights and items moving around the room. The couple fled, deserting the house entirely.
Several years later, a group of English fishermen came to Foxford and found the local hotel full. Someone in the pub suggested they kip in the abandoned house. Although warned of the ghosts, the men thought nothing of it and camped in the house. Before morning, they took to the roads and left Foxford, skipping the rest of their angling holiday.
So, why is it haunted?
The story I've heard is that either the house was built on part of a road used by people during the famine who were leaving the area on their way to emigrate or that where the house was built was on top of a field where cattle that was seized during the famine years from families unable to pay their debts was held before being sold on. Either way, the field is said to have a bad karma about it...
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