Built in 1680 and once described as "the prettiest house in Ulster", Springhill stands as a proud testimony to successive generations of the Lenox-Conyngham family whose home it was for close on 300 years. In 1816, George Lenox-Conyngham committed suicide, leaving his second wife Olivia to care for their children. She was ever after haunted by remorse at her inability to prevent his death, and her anguish appears to have followed her beyond the grave, for Olivia's ghost often appears at the house. She was seen in the early 20th century when the last generation of Lenox-Conyngham children to live at the property were sleeping one night, and their nursemaid awoke to find her gazing intently at the youngsters, as though checking the well being of each one of them in turn. Today, her phantom still wanders the peaceful corridors of her old home. She exudes an aura of weary detachment and is generally accepted as little more than the oldest resident of this splendid old house.


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