The Dunskey Castle Brownie

Shortly before the sale of Dunskey to Montgomery [in 1620], the castle is said to have been haunted by a Brownie. William Montgomery, a grandson of the first viscount, tells us that there was one of them (Brownie) in the appearance of an hairy man which hanted Dunskey castle a little before our first Visct bot it and Portpatrick lands. The writer goes on to recount an amusing incident which took place about 1648 at Newtonards, Co. Down, when the Earl of Clanbrassil, who was staying the night there with the 3rd Viscount Montgomery, had his shirt torn off him during the night by a Brownie. who left him but the collar and wristbands.

Source

• Lt.-Col. J. R. H. Greeves, The Hairy Apparition of Dunskey Castle, TDGNHAS, Third Series, Volume XXXIV, (1957), p. 129-130, at 129

Notes

• The author notes that this is the only known reference to this apparition.