the hole in the ceiling at Loftus Hall they never could plaster over

Right so my gran was from the Hook side of Wexford and she'd never set foot near Loftus Hall, used to bless herself driving past it. The story she told us kids: winter of 1775, the Tottenhams are in residence, a young one called Anne among them. Storm comes in off the sea, a rider turns up looking f……