Archaeologists Explore An Ancient Tomb Beside The Hellfire Club

[@tialac506]

This is surreal! I was on holiday in Dublin with my uni choir back in 2017, and one morning when I was up early and a bit hungover I thought I'd go for a bit of a hike to clear my head. I bought a map, jumped on a bus to the closest part of the Wicklow mountains national park and just started walking. This was the first place I came across, and I had no idea what it was about, I just saw the name on the map and thought "how odd", never thought to look it up online. I only saw two people on the entire walk, a farmer who made sure I wasn't lost, and a man who had been walking there every day for years. I took so long enjoying the beauty of it all that I was going to be late for a concert in the evening, so I had to hitch a lift back with a lady who was on the way to pick up her kids from school. Everything about that trip was fantastic, and this reminds me how much I want to go back.

[@Cola.Cube.]

It's mad, born and raised in Dublin, lived there for 45 years and have a permanent image of the Dublin mountains etched into my mind with the grey silhouette of the hellfire club, and I've never been upto visit it.

[@Truther2001]

Never...?!? I grew up in Firhouse at the foothills of these mountains. We could see the Hellfire Club from our estate and we used to hike up to it regularly in our teens during the 90's. Such a magical place!

[@Bigbrokevo]

Bro don’t talk about madness.

[@Cola.Cube.]

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[@Truther2001]

6yrs later... any update on this site...?!?

[@NathanHassall]

Apparently that guy and his team went missing after discovering the tomb entrance a few days later.

[@jackspring7709]

My understanding is that there is a neolithic passage grave directly underneath the building which William Connolly destroyed in order to build his lodge: it's believed one of the main stones was then built into the fireplace of the lodge (which is still there in the building).

[@annasyreyshchikova3279]

Thank you, I was unwell, now I'm fine.

[@jsmcguireIII]

The Hellfire Club was beyond the pale.

[@Bigbrokevo]

Just like i lost my sanity

[@Bkh0498]

“Shooting lodge” it was an occult hot bed for rituals it was known to the founders that the stone used would give the building magical powers

[@faithlesshound5621]

Unfortunately for Irish archaeology, the decline of religion had reached a stage by the 18th century when superstitious dread no longer prevented the desecration of graves, but there was still enough belief in magic for it to be considered a good idea. Also the power balance in colonial Ireland was such that an Anglo-Irish landlord had no need to worry about angry locals with pitchforks. As far as "rituals" go, modern men don't need to put on gowns and surplices before abusing children.

[@Bkh0498]

Faithless Hound there not really superstitions they are beliefs from classical Irish paganism, these rituals are nothing to be joked they are real and have an effect on people and so is magic, and to say people involved in the occult are all paedophiles is a bit much

[@themadfarmer5207]

Just wait until they build an interpretative center there with fake stone stuck on with super glue

[@abraxasfraxinus7744]

@@faithlesshound5621 the fact you jumped to child abuse just shows how ignorant you are

[@icxcnika9399]

Benjamin Franklin is renowned for never missing a meeting at the Hellfire Club

[@SimonRSchultz]

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[@itsmyireland]

Very good

[@haveless]

Cool vids man!

[@laurenbrophy9201]

On my god I am getting some shivers

[@bethbartlett5692]

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[@dominicrussell8099]

I need an update on this, can anyone help?

[@MrFrostjosh1988]

What was the pipe stamp

[@abraxasfraxinus7744]

I go up here every so often to conduct rituals, usually under full moons

[@stonner2k]

it take it you were not allowed back??

[@pops1507]

How I wish people would stop slinging the term "incredibly" around.

[@greenteambc]

Pops150 true... what a dangerous term to throw around.... the results could be devastating. Lol #MillenialNation

[@dukadarodear2176]

Yep. Unbelievable...!

[@cosmicquetzal220]

@@greenteambc sarcasm, I hope?

[@jackspring7709]

I know. It's incredibly annoying.

[@Truther2001]

@@dukadarodear2176 unbelievably

[@lilthangelfire7798]

Need to become a cat sanctuary.

[@clementinedesaintsernin5988]

Hi

[@Truther2001]

Hi

[@volpaire7406]

@@Truther2001 Hi

[@Truther2001]

@@volpaire7406 hi 😏😏

[@bobbertot335]

Alright?

[@paulsavage9268]

My friends went up to the club and they got ghosts on camra...am going to stay for a night lets find more ..?

[@jamesward1105]

Paul savage guess that was a no

[@Truther2001]

@@jamesward1105 lol, still waiting...

[@geniusj1841]

Dont find it scary at all.

[@goodfellazbushcraft8301]

I know someone who got possessed by the devil here

[@neilcarrollMeganJamieForever]

Yea, you keep believing that!

[@dermotpurcell8861]

Possession is very real your frequency goes low enough in they can come .he'll fire was well known for its rituals and their followers are in power everywhere

[@WoodwoseTransmissions]

Please tell the story, I'd love to hear it