Castle Leslie
GLASLOUGH, COUNTY MONAGHAN
Castle Leslie is privately owned by descendants of the original Leslie clan. The castle was bought in 1655 by the Bishop
of Clogher John Leslie but was added to and rebuilt in 1878. The Leslies can trace their ancestry back to Atilla The Hun.
The first Leslie came from Scotland and was a Hungarian nobleman called Bartholomew Leslie who was the chamberlain and
protector of Margaret Queen Of Scotland. The castle is now owned by Samantha Leslie, daughter of Desmond, one of the
few surviving war-time Spitfire pilots. The Red Room is supposedly haunted by Norman Leslie who was killed in action in
1914 and whose mother, Lady Marjorie, awoke here one night to find his ghost standing by the chest of drawers, surrounded
by a 'cloud of light'. The apparition of a noble named Lady Constance is supposed to haunt the Mauve Bedroom.
A story exists of a lady of the castle named Leonie who, on her death bed, was visited by an elderly woman who spoke to
her and then left. The sleepy nurse caring for her assumed it was one of the family members and said nothing.
After the funeral, the family and the nurse were sitting in the Dining Room when nurse proclaimed that the elderly
visitor looked exactly like the portrait on the wall - of Lady Constance, who had died in 1925.
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