A Haunted Land: Ireland's Ghosts

Bob Curran’s book gathers Irish accounts of ghosts and hauntings, ranging from wraith-like apparitions to more solid, threatening figures. It considers reports associated with buildings, families and particular places, showing how spirits may be said to warn of impending death or return because of an old grievance.

Among the locations mentioned is Leap Castle, where psychics reportedly felt an especially intense atmosphere. The book also includes the story “A Night at the ‘Ram’s Horn’”, alongside accounts of dangerous, damaging, frightening and less hostile manifestations. Drawing on Irish folklore and local tradition, Curran presents these stories as reported experiences and inherited beliefs, placing individual hauntings within Ireland’s wider ghost-lore.