Renvyle House was converted from a family home into a hotel in 1883. By 1917, when Oliver St. John Gogarty bought the property, it was already known to be haunted. The ghost once pushed a chest against a door in one of the rooms, effectively preventing anyone from entering the room (not that the staff wanted to enter it anyway).
No less a guest than W. B. Yeats stayed at the hotel; the ghosts seemed to have respect for him, as they would leave the room - and shut the door - when he requested it. His wife was a medium, and made contact with one ghost, a teenager who resented the fact that his former home had become a place for strangers to stay.
Despite being burned down in 1923 and rebuilt the following decade, the ghosts remain. Sometimes, they have been spotted peeking at the guests in mirrors.
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