Located near the town of Crossmolina in County Mayo, Deel Castle was originally built in the 1500s by the Bourke family. Following Colonel Thomas Bourke’s support for King James II during the Williamite Wars, the castle was confiscated and granted to the Gore family—later known as the Earls of Arran—who renamed it Castle Gore. Now unoccupied, the building stands in ruin.

The castle is associated with a chilling paranormal incident reported by two eyewitnesses. Late one night, around 1 a.m., a local farmer had just finished making silage and stepped outside his tractor to smoke with a friend. As they stood near the machine, both men suddenly heard the unmistakable sound of children laughing and playing near the ruined castle—despite the hour. As they listened more closely, the joyful sounds shifted to crying. Disturbed, the men climbed back into the tractor in an attempt to block out the noise. When a third friend arrived to collect them, the pair fled the field in panic and jumped into the car, visibly shaken by what they had experienced.