Who are The Ladies in White and Black at Galway?
The Ladies in White in Black of Galway are of two local ghosts. One the drowned daughter of a chieftain and the other a medieval Nun.
The Lady In White
According to legend Galway was named after the drowned daughter of a local chieftain giving rise to stories about the Lady in White since the 1700’s. The legend tells of a ghost who strolls along the Long Walk (the waterside promenade) and many assumed it was the drowned daughter of the chieftain.
The legend is that Galway was called after the name Gaillimh inion Breasail andGaillimh is believed to mean “stony” as in “stony river. The earliest Galway settlement was called Dún Bhun na Gaillimhe translated as “the fort at the end of the Galway”.
The Lady in Black
Ireland is full of stories of haunted places and it must be a dream of every photographer to snap a local ghost.
In 2012, a photographer was convinced he’d taken a photo of a 19th-century Claddagh nun at the Long Walk, an industrial estate in Co. Galway.
The story was reported in the Galway Independent and Jonathan Curran, a local photographer exclaimed that he. was “freaked.” After snapping the Lady in Black, he proceeded to take another 12 other pictures but the ghost nun did not appear again.
Curran said: “The image was not visible either before or after the photograph was taken and was not captured in any of the other photographs, either going or coming. She just seemed to appear for a moment and then disappear. There were other people on the Long Walk that day, but they seemed oblivious to her presence.”
Locals in Galway are usually discussing this image in a local pub. Is the image that o a ghost or was it just an optical illusion?
According to William Henry, a local historian there are numerous stories of haunting around the Claddagh, Wolfe Tone Bridge, and the Long Walk. He mentioned that these stories include tales of “The Lady in White.” whom we mentioned above.
Henry said: “An elderly man once described seeing a lady dressed in medieval clothing near the bridge one night, long before our festivals began. Other stories of hauntings were told in the old Claddagh and many young people were warned to avoid Wolf Tone Bridge after midnight. This had the added advantage of ensuring that they were home before 12 bells.”
Spooky!
From: – https://www.irishcentral.com/news/ghost-of-19th-century-nun-ireland-claddagh
These stories always surface more around Halloween and below you will find two more..
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