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…We still like gruesome stories, though. I have myself been guilty, when leading minibuses of students around Connemara, of stopping here at twilight to show them the twisty hawthorns and the gaunt roofless gables and try to make them experience a moment or two of the strangeness of Roundstone Bog, to hear its rumorous breezes while holding them quiet with the legend of the Halfway House.”
— Jan 13, 2024 11:04AM
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…Even today there is still enough ghastly talk about the Halfway House to frighten the benighted passer-by, but nobody now walks out so far in the dark, and in our cars we pass the place too quickly to see anything more uncanny than our own headlights reflected in the eyes of the sheep that rest on the dry road surface here.…
— Jan 13, 2024 11:03AM
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I am enthralled with the lore-telling.
“There might be old records from Galway Gaol or leases in archives of the Martin estate that could throw a glimmer of light on the faces of those who lived and died here. Or it may all be a dark absurdity, words put together to conjure up all the shudderings and black treachery of the bog and condense them into a tale.…
— Jan 13, 2024 11:03AM
“There might be old records from Galway Gaol or leases in archives of the Martin estate that could throw a glimmer of light on the faces of those who lived and died here. Or it may all be a dark absurdity, words put together to conjure up all the shudderings and black treachery of the bog and condense them into a tale.…
