Documenting our Heritage

Seafield House,

Sligo.

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I finally tracked this place down - the poltergeist story is legendary but as far as I can see no ‘ghost hunter’ has ever made it here. This place hasn’t been photographed in decades.

The poltergeist story sounds like a classic 1800s fairy tale complete with archaeologists, Egyptian mummies and Syrian swords but Jesuit priests did indeed try to exorcise the house in the 19th Century and failed in their attempt to rid the house of the poltergeist - shortly after this the house was dismantled and left as a roofless ruin.

I approach the house with caution!

The centre section of the house is totally gone - it’s hard to see where the long gallery which housed the Phibbs archaeology collection was located - the objects contained in the collection were said to have started the poltergeist infestation.

The back area of the house is shadowed and gloomy.

I start to get the feeling I’m not alone in here.

I swear a shadowy figure moves across the empty window frames.