Ross Castle visited by ghostly figure?

THERE was more than your normal evening chill in the air at Ross Castle last week when Tipperary photographer Dan Connolly snapped this ghostly figure silhouetted on the castle wall.

What makes the figure all the more eerie is that Dan swears that he saw no-one else at the castle while he was there.

Dan was down in the area for a few days taking photos of the deer rutting when he decided to stop by the castle for an evening shoot.

“I know some people will think that I created the image but that’s the

thing, I didn’t create it,” he laughed, speaking to The Kerryman on Friday.

“I actually have a picture that was taken a second before this one and there’s nobody in it. If you look at the left leg, it looks an awful lot like a wooden leg to me as well,” he continued.

Dan explained that due to the camera technique that he was using, he shouldn’t have captured anybody on the shot.

“When you’re doing long exposure shots, it takes about thirty seconds from the time you press the button to the time that picture gets taken. So usually, when people walk in front of you, you don’t get them in the picture because it’s tak- en over such a length of time. This one is different though,” said Dan.

Dan admits that he was taken aback when he looked at the photo and saw the figure; he said that he has no earthly idea where the figure came from but said that it definitely lent itself to making a very striking image.

Photo by Dan Connolly. Tipperary photographer Dan Connolly was alone on an evening shoot in Killarney National Park last week when he noticed a lone figure silhouetted on the wall of the castle.