In previous posts I’ve talked about my penchant for old buildings. 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. Abandoned Ireland: Step into our empty asylums, convents and workhouses — ghosts and poltergeists optional

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Looking at what's left of a life once lived, wondering what the people who lived there were like, who they were, what they did ...

And yet, even in the ruins, Brownlie believes there is often something worth preserving. “No matter what state a house is in, you can find beauty in the decay. Even in asylums, the architecture was unbelievable and something that couldn’t be replicated now.” Rebecca Brownlie grew up in a small rural village in County Down, Northern Ireland. When she was just twelve years old, she won her first camera on a TV game show and her love of photography was sparked. From that day on, a camera is rarely far from her side. 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. She is an avid adventurer, and can be regularly found hiking up mountainsides with her four-legged friend and children in tow. Priests came to the house and are recorded to have witnessed the strange occurrences for themselves. One of them described hearing snoring in the dark; he also said that when sitting on the bed it felt like snakes were moving under him and when a light was lit a human bulk was seen to collapse under the sheets, which then developed a new swelling and the snoring started afresh. Ireland is home to some amazing architecture, but there are also some equally gorgeous ruins scattered around the country that were once home to a past gone by. 1. Tyrone House, Galway

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At five I went to the place and found the whole house was seething in a mass of flames. I at once saw that all was hopeless. Carrigglas Manor, County Longford – a fairy-tale exterior with a ghostly interior Credit: @IrishAesthete My favourite story during the talk was obviously one that involved a brush with the paranormal, obviously. The author is interested above all, one senses, in the grain of day-to-day life: in the stories and power retained by detritus and everyday objects – the crucifix on the wall, the dusty piano, assorted books, the bottle of cod liver oil – even amid the desolation of abandonment. And more than anything, Brownlie’s tremendously evocative photographs tell and amplify such stories of materiality, and of buildings poised trembling between life and death.’– Neil Hegarty, The Irish TimesDescribed as a “stunning restoration project for the right client” by its agent, this stone cottage has just one room. Read More Related Articles I know that behind that doorway was just an empty kitchen and canteen,” says Brownlie. “There was no other door in, no cupboards that anyone could have been hiding in, it had been completely stripped.”