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Loftus Hall for Sale

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    #32
    sam_mom1
    Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭sam_mom1


    thanks Mr Loftus, satisfied my years of curiousity...

    you can nearly smell the mould and the damp from those pics... hee hee :D


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    #33
    kleefarr
    Registered Users Posts: 5,743 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    Maybe Mr Loftus is the buyer?


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    #34
    AI
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭AI


    Anybody know what the story is at Loftus? Did it actually sell? Anything going on there with regard to renovating the place?


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    #35
    xFROSTY Gx
    Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭xFROSTY Gx


    Nothing has been done to the place yet anyway. Its still boarded up and whatnot


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    #36
    Ger57
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Ger57


    MrLoftus wrote: »
    Three nights spent in Loftus Hall back in the summer

    The whole place was explored from top to bottom

    Uploaded the photos on Flickr and Pix. Get them while you can!!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32677070@N04/sets/72157609670380437/

    http://pix.ie/mrloftus/album/330434

    Regards,
    Mr Loftus :)

    3049490497_e1fb5867d4.jpg

    Fantastic pictures,thanks for sharing them as i was there many years ago when it was open and in good repair.Lovely old house and sad to see it let go to this.Having said that it will take some amount of money to restore it.How were you so lucky to get in there.I was at Kilcooley House in Tipperary yesterday,same story as Loftus,but apparently some guy from Monaghan has bought it for 4.5mill.Few pics on Flickr,but no entry to house.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/canon_addict/


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    #37
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,498 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Kilcooley was inhabited to recently,it was the venue for AIRC dressage championships for a bit.


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    #38
    conlof
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭conlof


    Its for sale again


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    #39
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    conlof wrote: »
    Its for sale again


    k5Td0vj2A42rAlfSv31u4GBjnY-bipOUCmYRO9UthpttPXBpZSZlPTQwMHgzMDA=.jpg

    It's on Sherry FitzGerald's website for €625,000 sale agreed - including 63 acres of good farmland, so essentially the house is thrown in free with the land worth €10,000 per acre. You would need a fortune to restore it and I suspect it's heading for an arson attack some day.


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    #40
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    'tis a brave man that will attempt any attack on that building with its history .

    Afterwards , he'd better watch his back !


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    #41
    smodgley
    Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭smodgley


    if i had the money i would buy it, the history is exactly that history !!!!!!!!


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    #42
    Mahatma coat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    Word on the Grapevine is that its been Bought by someone on My side of the bay ;)


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    #43
    smodgley
    Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭smodgley


    and where iks that?


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    #44
    Missent
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭Missent


    Yeah, heard it was bought by someone in the Wellington Bridge/Bannow area. Mahatma, that would make you a Rhubarb City native, more or less.


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    #45
    Mahatma coat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    Yeah, heard it was bought by someone in the Wellington Bridge/Bannow area. Mahatma, that would make you a Rhubarb City native, more or less.
    :eek::eek:
    MODS!!!!!! I'm being abused AND insulted

    close but NOT from W/Bridge

    . .M_
    E, . . }~
    . WW

    ;)


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    #46
    Mahatma coat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    OH Yeah, I asked Mammy & She said that these fellas have Deffo bought the gaff, and She'd know ;)

    Mammy's tend to know these sorts of things
    :D:D:D


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    #47
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    Keep us posted
    Best of Luck to the buyers ....................They will need it .

    This place has serious history . - I wonder what plans they have for the building .............

    A visitor centre ?................. It will end up a ghost estate like all the other one in Ireland ;)


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    #48
    Mahatma coat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    It would seem that the building has been wrecked inside by nogoodniks

    Acording to the buyer the facade has a preservation order but they can do what they want inside it.


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    #49
    McLoughlin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭McLoughlin


    The locals in the area do not want any kind of tourism to do with the building. The same with Curracloe they dont want any tourism place regarding Saving Private Ryan.


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    #50
    bruschi
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 4,141 Mod ✭✭✭✭bruschi


    McLoughlin wrote: »
    The locals in the area do not want any kind of tourism to do with the building. The same with Curracloe they dont want any tourism place regarding Saving Private Ryan.

    cant say I ever heard that. sure it used to be a hotel up to the late 80's. and it would be a big boost to have a good business out there for all in the local area. would have heard the complete opposite in regards to it, and people there hoping it would sell and something would be done with it and be restored as a tourist spot in some shape or form.


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    #51
    McLoughlin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭McLoughlin


    bruschi wrote: »
    cant say I ever heard that. sure it used to be a hotel up to the late 80's. and it would be a big boost to have a good business out there for all in the local area. would have heard the complete opposite in regards to it, and people there hoping it would sell and something would be done with it and be restored as a tourist spot in some shape or form.

    They wouldnt mind it to be a hotel Im sure but its all the haunting\devil stories to do with the place there sick of people coming down asking about ghosts and ghouls and all that crap.


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    #52
    bruschi
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    McLoughlin wrote: »
    They wouldnt mind it to be a hotel Im sure but its all the haunting\devil stories to do with the place there sick of people coming down asking about ghosts and ghouls and all that crap.

    that'll never stop though, and sure if it generates publicity then what harm.

    besides, this building is not the one that the "devil" was in. that building was demolished and this one was built in its place.


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    #53
    David900
    Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭David900


    McLoughlin wrote: »
    They wouldnt mind it to be a hotel Im sure but its all the haunting\devil stories to do with the place there sick of people coming down asking about ghosts and ghouls and all that crap.

    Surely they would welcome some sort of tourist centre so that these people would not bother local people asking about that sort of stuff?


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    #54
    Mahatma coat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    bruschi wrote: »
    that'll never stop though, and sure if it generates publicity then what harm.

    besides, this building is not the one that the "devil" was in. that building was demolished and this one was built in its place.

    AFAIK thats the building, there was an earlier Hall which was 'Remodelled' extensivly


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    #55
    bruschi
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 4,141 Mod ✭✭✭✭bruschi


    Mahatma coat wrote: »
    AFAIK thats the building, there was an earlier Hall which was 'Remodelled' extensivly


    no, the tottenham legend and Devil occurred in the 1750's or so.

    the building was demolished in 1870 or there abouts, and what stands now is what was built then. Its a completley different building.


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    #56
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    McLoughlin wrote: »
    The locals in the area do not want any kind of tourism to do with the building. The same with Curracloe they dont want any tourism place regarding Saving Private Ryan.

    :rolleyes:


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    #57
    David900
    Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭David900


    Mahatma coat wrote: »
    AFAIK thats the building, there was an earlier Hall which was 'Remodelled' extensivly

    Pretty sure it says the opposite on a plaque on the gate down there.
    They did find someone buried in the walls in that house though and it was exorcised. I seen it on a documentary Channel 4 made about the story.

    Can't remember if it was an adult or child they found, its slightly mixed in my head.
    The jist of the story anyway was they think the dad had been messing with the daughter and she had a kid. They made up the devil story to keep people away.


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