Pursuant to Aricontes edit request      Please replace the last paragraph about the hauntings with the following   Several stories are in circulation as to the haunted nature of the castle  the first legend concerns a female ghost said to look out from the castle windows she is purported to be the daughter of a former owner of the castle a certain Dean Swift who unhappy with his daughters choice of lover had her locked away in a tower where she either starved to death or was put to death by her father depending on the version   the second ghost apparently makes a yearly apparition on the th November and is supposedly a guard who fell asleep on duty and was thrown to his death from the ramparts of the castle in punishment His footsteps can be heard as he wanders the castle to make amends for his carelessness  the third legend concerns another female ghost this time a woman who wanders the castle spreading the scent of wild flowers or lilacs wherever she goes       Cheers