It is a place of national historic significance and several members of the Moore family played major parts in the social, cultural, literary and political history of Ireland from the late 1700s to the early 1900s.

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I could do nothing but stand by and await the end with the same feelings that one has when attending the open grave of a very dear friend. Brownlie’s full-time job is with a pharmaceutical company and she’s self-taught as a photographer, but she has a natural eye for composition, and a talent for picking out features of interest, whether that’s highlighting the breathtaking architectural aspects of a building, or honing in on the sights that tell the stories of the forgotten lives within. Akin to rediscovering those old photo albums in the attic or that long-forgotten box of toys; that pull back to the past is irresistible. This property is continently located just of the N17, located close to Ireland West Airport Knock,” the listing said. From North Street to Malone Road, take a look at this handy guide to 7 of Belfast’s derelict buildings if you fancy doing some sightseeing of your own.

I’ve done a paranormal tour of East Belfast’s Strand Cinema, explored Hillsborough Castle, traversed Belfast learning about street art brightening up many abandoned buildings in the city; and much more besides.

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In relation to derelict properties, Dr Rory Hearne, lecturer at Maynooth University and author of Housing Shock, told the Irish Mirror : “There is a major problem of vacancy and dereliction across the country, and the Government measures are not working in tackling it. The house came to a terrible end on February 1, 1923 when it was burned down during the Irish Civil War as Maurice Moore, the brother of the owner of Moore Hall, was viewed as pro-Treaty. Like many of the old buildings that line streets such as Royal Avenue in Belfast city centre, it’s a building that somehow blends into the cityscape due to over-exposure to the same city scenes. From abandoned cottages to derelict hospitals, it’s a past time unsuitable for the faint-hearted – as quickly becomes evident during the course of their talk. These institutions accepted the aged and infirm, orphans, foundlings and abandoned children, but were not good places to be, with cruelty and torture part of the daily routine.The sense of history evoked when walking between rooms traversed by people of a different time has an awe-inspiring capability that I find endlessly fascinating. All the accoutrements of daily life arranged or strewn in a manner wholly unique to the people who once inhabited the space. There have been numerous reports of the ‘Bean Si,’ or Banshee, being spotted among the ruins of this former estate and grounds.

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Abandoned Ireland is packed with beautiful, evocative pictures of neglected buildings which now serve as crumbling time capsules of days past. The workhouses and prisons in Ireland at that time were suffering from overcrowding, which forced them to offload some of their more troublesome inmates to asylums, which meant that many of the patients did not actually need psychiatric care and were there for living purposes only, but it was against the law to refuse entry to anyone. It holds the ruins of six churches and one of the highest Round Towers in Ireland, at 120 feet high. Her passion for abandoned buildings and love of photography have led her to appear on several local television shows featuring some of Ireland’s lost buildings.There was no other door in, no cupboards that anyone could have been hiding in, it had been completely stripped.

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Gill Hall was destroyed in the 1970s and, not long after Brownlie captured that image of the spectre in the old convent, it too was demolished. This beautiful castle was once home to the Foxhall family, before it was turned into a Gothic castle. Then there are other houses where you know you’re not welcome, and I would always listen to that, respect it, and leave. The faded grandeur lends a sadness to many images, while others — like the sight of sleeping sacks still lining the workhouse floor — are haunting, not because of ghostly fears but because they hint at real-life horrors. Of course, many people left Donegal and the rest of Ireland during and after The Famine, but Port is unusual in that a whole village or hamlet seem to have left.

The council now own the 80 acres of woodland estate overlooking Lough Carra in west Mayo, including the house, courtyard and walled garden and the grounds are open to the public. Brownlie’s interest in abandoned buildings began some 10 years ago, when she worked with a paranormal group, scouting locations for investigations, but her fascination with the supernatural was honed in childhood by her mum’s stories of the eerie Gill Hall Estate nearby in Dromore, Co Down. Inis Cathaig, or Scattery Island, is an uninhabited island in the Shannon Estuary, just a mile away from Kilrush. Noting that “For in the same way that walks through Britain’s forests are now being prescribed as an effective way to help counteract anxiety and stress, so the conservation trusts and charities of the heritage industry are starting to promote the power of ruins and historic buildings to improve mental wellbeing.