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Did you know... that the collapse of Cloghan Castle in County Cork, Ireland, was said to have been caused by the barking of a ghostly black dog?
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... that the collapse of Cloghan Castle(pictured) in County Cork, Ireland, was said to have been caused by the barking of a ghostly black dog? Source: "The tower house collapsed in the mid-Nineteenth Century (Donovan 1876, iaG) allegedly due to the shaking it received from the barking of a ghostly black hound that haunted it." from: Samuel, Mark Wycliffe (1998),
The Tower Houses of West Cork(PDF) (PhD thesis), University College London, p. 555, retrieved 3 October 2022