Ep 138: Loftus Hall Part 2

Above image courtesy of Aiden Quigley, current owner of Loftus Hall and author Chris Rush, All Rights Reserved.

“The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.”

― Martin Luther

Background:

As it is said with legends, when you separate the wheat from the chaff, there is often a kernel of truth in them. So what is the truth about Loftus Hall? Whether the Devil himself came to visit this prominent family who can say with certainty, but it seems accurate that the real Anne Tottenham suffered so great an instance of emotional trauma that it left her to wither in a catatonic state for the rest of her short life. There may even be proof that she remained seated for years, staring out the window of her favorite room, waiting for her bewitching love to return. What is also known is that some occult force had disturbed the family and staff of the house so greatly and frequently thereafter, that Protestant nobility had broken with fierce tradition to seek help from a local Catholic priest. The much-beloved Father Thomas Broaders was called upon to exorcize the demonic presence and was successful, mostly. What remains true today is that Loftus Hall is a grand attraction, scarred by its history and haunted by a love lost.

 

Location:

Loftus Hall  – a large country house on the Hook peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland. Originally, on that site stood Redmond Hall.

Photo taken by Thomas Beavis while on a tour of the hall where a ghostly image of a young girl and old woman appear in a window next to the front doorway.

Redmond Hall as it’s being defended by Alexander Redmond against overwhelming British forces. The castle would later be rebuilt and become the site for Loftus Hall

Image courtesy of Aiden Quigley, current owner of Loftus Hall and author Chris Rush, All Rights Reserved.

The entrance to Loftus Hall circa 1900. Image courtesy of Aiden Quigley, current owner of Loftus Hall and author Chris Rush, All Rights Reserved.

Current condition of entrance to Loftus Hall. Image courtesy of Aiden Quigley, current owner of Loftus Hall and author Chris Rush, All Rights Reserved.

Staircase commissioned by The Most Hon. John Henry Wellington Graham Loftus, The Fourth marquess of Ely. It took 9 years to carve in Italy and 3 to assemble at the Hall in the 1870s – 80s. Image courtesy of Aiden Quigley, current owner of Loftus Hall and author Chris Rush, All Rights Reserved.

Image courtesy of Aiden Quigley, current owner of Loftus Hall and author Chris Rush, All Rights Reserved.

Image courtesy of Aiden Quigley, current owner of Loftus Hall and author Chris Rush, All Rights Reserved.

Image courtesy of Aiden Quigley, current owner of Loftus Hall and author Chris Rush, All Rights Reserved.

Henry Loftus, 3rd Earl of Ely, 1707~09 - 1783, Anne Tottenham’s uncle. From the Tottenham.name family pedigree website.

Anne Bonfoy, 2nd wife of Henry Loftus, 3rd Earl of Ely From the Tottenham.name family pedigree website.

Reference Links:

• Official website for Loftus Hall

• Loftus Hall After Dark live streaming webcams

• Chris Rush, author of The Legend of Loftus Hall

• Loftus Hall on Wikipedia

• The Legend in a nutshell, from the New Ross Standard newspaper

• Loftus Hall on Ancient-Origins.net

• The Tottenham Family pedigree website, tottenham.name

• The Hook Lighthouse story, on the DoChara travel website

• The Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland

• Raymond (or Redmond) FitzGerald

• “Military and political memoirs of the Redmond Family”

• “Military and political memoirs of the Redmond Family” continued

• The Tottenham Family Tree

• The Loftus Family Tree

• “The Haunted Hall of Dreams” by Brent Swancer on Mysterious Universe

• One-time, former mysterious buyer of Loftus Hall

• Castletown House

• “The Lodgers” motion picture, shot on location at Loftus Hall

• “Carthy’s Castle, Montpelier Hill” from the A Cloud on a String blog

• “‘Ghost of little girl’ photographed in notorious haunted mansion Loftus Hall” from the Metro News website

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Related Books:

The Legend of Loftus Hall

By Chris Rush

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CREDITS:

Episode 138: Loftus Hall Part 2.  Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees Wendel; Sound Design by Ryan McCullough; Tess Pfeifle, Producer and Lead Researcher; Research Support from the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2019 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.