Local Haunted Houses

 

Moyne Park House

Killererin Heritage Society

To the Editor of the Tuam Herald

Sir, – In Mr. St. John Seymour’s book on Haunted Houses, to which your interesting Galway correspondent refers in last issue, reminds me of one such place in this locality.  At Moyne Park, Ballyglunin, every 6th of October, a carriage and pair of horses are said to drive up the avenue. I knew a gentleman, the late Mr. Edward O’Kelly, who once lived in Cooloo, and often stayed with the late Mr. Waithman at Moyne. He told me that one evening in October, when there at dusk, he distinctly saw the carriage and thought it was someone coming to dinner at Moyne.

There were lights on the two sides of the carriage and he saw it distinctly. In the yard at Moyne, is still to be seen an old blind well and popular superstition says that in it was thrown the murdered body of Ambrose Deane, who coming out from Tuam on his way to Dublin, was brutally murdered and his body thrown into this well. This was in 1777, and the ghost of Ambrose Deane, still after nearly 200 years, haunts this place of his murder ever since. No person in or about Moyne would touch the well or remove a stone in it and it is there to this very hour. Mr. Deane owned large property extending from Tuam to near Ballyglunin, and was returning to Dublin where he lived with his rents, when he was waylaid and no trace of his body ever discovered. Some years after Moyne House was built by Mr. Browne.

I hope your readers will give accounts of other haunted houses in the county.

Yours truly,

A Reader