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Charles Fort Kinsale
Charles Fort was built between 1677 and 1682 in a star fortification design. Over the years it has played an important role in several conflicts including the Williamite War. It was used by the military until 1922.Today it's open for the public to walk around the ruins.
Charles Fort is reported to be haunted by a white lady. It's believed she threw herself off the Fort on her wedding day after discovering her husband was killed for falling asleep on duty. soldiers reported seeing her apparition and being pushed downstairs. Whilst soldiers children have reported seeing a white Lady smiling at them.
Excellent tour guide, really interesting historical place to visit, the guide made history come alive, very nice little coffee shop, reasonably priced and friendly staff, restoration work very well done. Well worth a visitIt is a gorgeous area.There are wonderful photo opportunities.
Contact details : address
Summer cove
Kinsale
Co.cork
P17 AY18
Tel: +353 (21) 477 2263
Fax: +353 (21)) 477 4347
Relative Links - http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/
The tragic suicide of a mourning bride has left a sad and sometimes unfriendly specter at Charlesfort, in Cork, one of Ireland's most famous ghosts: The White Lady of Kinsale.
According to legend and famous Irish ghost story goes, one of the fort’s soldiers married a local girl and they stayed at the fort for their wedding night. The soldier had watch duty that night and a bit drunk from the day’s celebrations fell asleep.
Other soldiers in the fort found him asleep while on duty and following the protocol of the day, shot him at his post. After hearing about her husband’s death, the bride flung herself to her death from one of the fort’s walls.
Decades after the tragedy, The White Lady was seen wandering through Charlesfort by soldiers and their families, especially children. Two sergeants were packing up some equipment when one man’s daughter asked who the White Lady smiling at her was. Both men saw nothing, but the girl was adamant that a woman in a white dress had been looking at her. In another story, a nurse saw The White Lady standing over the bed of a sleeping child.
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Not all of her interactions with the living are friendly. Even into the first half of the 12th century, several captains recounted stories of being pushed down a flight of stairs by an unseen force.
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