Deathly cries in the night 

This foreboding-looking building is Athcarne Castle. It was built for William Bathe in 1590. The Bathe family produced a number of well-known legal and political personalities around the 16th and 17th centuries. It lies just six miles from the site of the Battle of the Boyne and it is said that James II stayed here on the night before the event in 1690. The last occupant was James Gernon who lived here until the 1950s and the building has stayed in a state of dangerous ruin since. There have been reports that you can hear the dying cries of a soldier on dark nights who was hanged on the great oak tree adjacent to the castle. A recent disturbing tale told by a local worker claims to have seen the face of “a demented girl with blood-soaked hands”!