Loftus Hall

Loftus Hall is a large country house/manor on the Hook peninsula (Hook Head area) near New Ross in County Wexford. Built on the site of the earlier Redmond Hall, the house is historically associated with the Loftus family and appears in estate and landowner records for Fethard and surrounding manors. It features in the Buildings of Ireland record for local landed estates and is part of regional built heritage. In folklore and popular tourism accounts Loftus Hall is notable for its reputation as a haunted mansion. Reference sources and tourist guides repeatedly summarize a traditional local claim that the house is haunted by the devil and by the ghost of a woman; modern paranormal and travel publications promote the house as a destination for those interested in hauntings and allude to a well-known card-game legend connected to the site. The supplied material does not include named eyewitnesses, dates of specific sightings, or detailed investigative reports; most claims are presented as local legend and repeated in reference and tourism sources. Culturally, Loftus Hall figures in County Wexford folklore and in lists of Ireland's haunted houses. It is tied to the region's landed-history through references to the Loftus family and the Marquesses of Ely and appears in 19th-century landowner lists and estate map records. Modern tourism sources indicated the property closed to visitors around 2020 and was reported as being put up for sale, so public access has been limited in recent accounts.