Once the seat of the Burke family, Pallas Estate combined grandeur with superstition. Locals told of a wandering woman who appeared along the avenue after dark — a beggar once refused shelter, doomed to knock eternally for forgiveness.

More dramatic was the phantom coach and four, said to thunder to the front door on stormy nights. A visiting Bishop of Clonfert was called to the house and, armed with holy water, banished the spectral carriage from the grounds. Yet even he could not silence the castle’s death bell, which was heard to toll of its own accord whenever a Burke of Pallas was about to die.

Though the mansion has long vanished, stories of the ghostly coach-lights still circulate in Tynagh, reminding travellers that the road once led to one of east Galway’s most haunted demesnes.