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History Hauntings

So many stories are told of dark days and doings inside the walls of the castle that there is not room in this volume to relate to them all. I will tell two. One is the story called the “Duel with Song.” The duel was fought by the troubadour Luccero Moreno and a Gaelic bard called Dion the Thrush. It took place in the year 1200. The other story concerns a vain and troubled lady. Its called “The Shattered Mirror.”

Prelude

One night in 1930 I drove along the road from Ballyvourney to Cork. A mile or more before one reaches the arched stone bridge which carries the hig...


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Duel With Song

In the year 1209, according to Caley’s account of the story, a Spanish galleon was seen to be in great distress off Ballycotton Light, as the spot ...


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The Shattered Mirror

The story of “The Shattered Mirror” is this. In 1685, Lady Margaret Hodnett resided at Belvelly Castle. The Hodnett fortunes were at the time at th...


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