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Feltrim Hill: The Hellhound and the Haunted Well

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On the hills where the last wolves in Ireland roamed, ghosts have been spotted on Feltrim Hill, always moving towards the sacred spring that were said to have healing powers. 

Rising quietly over Malahide, Feltrim Hill holds a shadowed place in Ireland’s ancient past. Long before houses dotted the landscape, this was wild country, where wolves roamed freely and whispers of the Otherworld clung to every stone in what was once known as The Hill of the Wolves. The air here feels older, heavier, as though it remembers what the living have long forgotten. 

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It is also reported that Feltrim was the last place in Ireland that wolves were to be found with the last of the species killed here in the 18th century. Hidden among the rolling fields lies a holy well, once dedicated to a Saxon princess said to possess healing powers, although today, most legends are of the haunted kind. 

Feltrim Quarry Gates: Source

Feltrim Hill Quarry and Well

Once, there used to be a historic village called Feltrim Hill. Close to it, it was a sacred spring that they turned into a well and deemed holy. Because of quarrying of the limestone since the 1880s, both the spring and half the hill is gone, but the legends about the place remain. 

As mentioned, there was a Saxon princess who ruled these parts around 689 C.E, and that the well was dedicated to. In ancient times, there used to be 14 beech trees in a line that guided pilgrims to the well where they attended mass. And although the well itself is believed to have been destroyed, the water is still there. In 1947 an archaeological excavation was conducted atop Feltrim Hill uncovering over 500 artifacts including Roman coins and tinned bronze from the 4th century C.E. 

St. Werburgh: Meaning “true city” from c. AD 650 – 3 February 700, was an Anglo-Saxon princess who became the patron saint of the city of Chester in Cheshire. She was the daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia. Her feast day is 3 February. Following Werburgh’s death, her brother Coenred became king of Mercia. In 708 he decided to move his sister’s remains to a more conspicuous place within the church at Hanbury. When the tomb was opened, her body was found to be miraculously intact. This preservation was taken as a sign of divine favour.

The remains of Fagan’s Castle can also be found on Feltrim Hill. Built in 1427 by the Fagan family, a once powerful Catholic family whose power waned significantly after the Battle of the Boyne and where only small pieces of ruins are still visible. After 1560 Richard Fagan built a manor house at feltrim. His descendants were known as the Fagans of Feltrim.Today, this also lies in ruins, overgrown by woodland.

Some say that the well is still there though, although sealed off from the public by the Feltrim Quarry who owns the land. 

The Hellhound of Feltram Hill

The people of Malahide speak of a hellhound that stalks the slopes after nightfall. Its eyes are said to glow a deep, unnatural red, like embers burning in the dark. Those unfortunate enough to meet its gaze are struck with an overwhelming dread, their hearts pounding as the creature watches silently from the shadows. Some say it is a guardian of the hill, others believe it is a cursed soul condemned to roam for eternity. Its howl, low and mournful, has been heard on stormy nights, echoing across the fields like a warning to stay away.

Picture from the 1930s, showing the holy well, now said to be destroyed and walled up by concrete. Source

But the hellhound is not alone. A phantom horse, pale as fog, is said to gallop across the summit, its hooves making no sound upon the earth. Riders have tried to follow it, only for the apparition to vanish into thin air as it nears the holy well. 

And near that same well, when the mist settles thick upon the ground, the figure of an old woman has been seen struggling up the hill, a heavy bundle on her back. Her face is hidden, her steps slow and deliberate, as she makes her way toward the sacred spring before fading like smoke in the morning light.

Feltrim Hill is a place where the veil between worlds wears thin and where Irish history lurks right behind the fenced off areas. The healing waters may still bless those who come with pure hearts, but the hill also guards darker secrets and Feltrim Hills seemingly looks like one of the most haunted hills around. 

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The Haunted Fields of Croppie’s Acre: Dublin’s Restless Rebellion Ground

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Said to be the mass burial place for the dead Irish Independence rebels from 1798, the Croppie’s Acre in Dublin is said to be haunted by their lingering souls. 

Just beyond the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, near the banks of the River Liffey, lies a stretch of green ground known as Croppie’s Acre or Acra na gCraipithe. To the unknowing passerby, it might appear as nothing more than a tranquil patch of grass and trees, but beneath that quiet surface lies one of Dublin’s most haunted and sorrowful places. 

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This was once a mass grave, the final resting place for the rebels of the 1798 uprising and the men known as “Croppies” for their short-cropped hair, a symbol of revolutionary defiance. Hundreds were executed, their bodies dumped without ceremony into the earth, their names and faces forgotten by time. Yet if the stories are true, their spirits have never forgiven such an ending.

The Blood of Rebellion

In the summer of 1798, Ireland was swept by rebellion. Inspired by the ideals of liberty and equality, the United Irishmen rose against British rule. The United Irish were betrayed by one of their leaders and fell into a well-planned ambush. 

Many were captured and executed, hanged, beheaded, or shot, their remains discarded in pits near Kilmainham. Croppie’s Acre became their unmarked grave, a place heavy with grief and anger. The monument on 98 Street commemorates fallen Irishmen.

Croppies Acre: Overlooking the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. //Source: dronepicr/Wikimedia

There have been many archeological investigations in the area, and they have not found any human remains and there have been theories that the bodies was actually tossed in the nearby River Liffey and taken away by the tide. Was the place really a mass grave as the story claims? Local tradition certainly thinks so and it has become a memorial. And with the bloody history, the legend of the place being  haunted grew.

A Playground for the Dead

For years the field was used as a football pitch. Children played where rebels once bled into the soil. Players reported feeling strange chills even on warm days, or seeing figures on the edge of the pitch watching silently before fading into nothing.

Some claimed that balls kicked toward the far end of the field would veer suddenly off course, as if struck by an unseen hand. Others refused to play there at all, saying they felt the ground itself shift beneath their feet, as though something was stirring just beneath the surface.

Shadows by the Liffey

In the years since, Croppie’s Acre has been recognized as sacred ground, a memorial to those who died for Ireland’s cause. Yet the hauntings have never fully ceased, although the nature of the haunting remain vague, more like a haunted energy that lingers around the field. 

The field has also been closed down for years after being a place were heavy drug users gathered, not really helping the haunted rumours. 

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The Black Ghost Cat of War

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In 1941 a fighter plane crashed in a field in the English countryside during WW2. The pilots died in the crash, but a mysterious black cat lingered. Now it is coming back every year on the date of the crash as a ghost cat, haunting the field. 

It’s 1941 and the second world war is a fact across the continent and the European sky is littered by blinking lights in the sky from the German Blitzkrieg. Although the sky is not lit up by stars now, but by war planes. For the naked eye from the ground it is impossible to see if it is an enemy or friend inside the cockpit, the people around start learning to recognize the airplanes by sound. 

There are countless of stories tal tells about the tragic things that happened during this dark period of time. And more than one story emerged that somehow involved this war.

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The Plane Crash in Shropshire

This is not a war story about the ghost of a fallen soldier though, but the ghost cat that kept haunting the place the soldiers died.

On the eve of 23rd of October in 1941, a plane was soaring in the sky over the green land of Poynton Green in Shropshire, England. The plane was coming back after a night sortie and heading back to base. But something went wrong that night and the trip ended horrible. The night that was pitch dark until then is now lit up as the plane is heading straight to the ground. 

The airplane that crashed: It was a British Beaufighter that crashed into a field and burned that night. This is where the ghost cat that is said to haunt the scene were it all happened is supposed to emerge from.

The plane is a British Beaufighter, belonging to the 68 Squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF), and was heading to High Ercall where the RAF had an airfield. For an unknown reason the plane crashed in the field and the flames started to take over the aircraft. 

A local farmer came to the site to help and put the fire out, but it was too late and the flames engulfed the plane along with the people inside.

It was the Czechoslovak pilot Josef Kloboučník and sergeant Josef Klváčel, the radio operator that crashed with the plane and died that night. They were the first Czech members of the squadron, and they would never see the end of the war they fought in. 

The Black Cat Haunting the Crash Site

But the farmer that tried to help them didn’t leave empty handed however that night. As the plane went up in flames a black cat emerged from the burning plane. The farmer is said to have kept the cat as a pet for many years until it died as well.

According to some sources the farmer ended up giving the cat to an old woman that lived nearby. And that cat supposedly disappeared after the old woman died. But it still wasn’t completely gone and is said to have returned as a ghost cat. 

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Every ten years it is said that a black ghost cat is seen at the crash site, the ghost cat still lingering even after all these years. And in 2031 it is supposed to make its comeback.

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