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English Audio Request

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A few miles from Dundalk, there are the ruins of Castle Roche. It was built by a woman called Rohesia. She wanted a castle built on a high hill overlooking all that she own. She said that any man who could build the castle to her exact specifica- tions would gain her hand in marriage and with it, half her lands. Now it wasn’t long before men were lining up to build the castle. Rohesia looked among them, and she made her choice. She selected a young man, and he built her the castle. True to her word, Rohesia married. And she took the hand of her new husband and led him up the stairs to the bridal chamber. She directed him to the great window to look out over all the lands that he now owned: of the fields, the sheep, the cattle; and marvelling on his good luck, he felt her hand on his shoulder. And as he turned to kiss her, she pushed him from the tower window. He fell plummeting to his death. Now if you go to Castle Roche, and look up at that fateful win- dow, the wind might start to sound like a shriek, you might think you feel a presence coming closer to you, perhaps the doomed bridegroom, or maybe, it’s Rohesia, the murderous widow, determined to keep her secrets at any cost.

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    A few miles from Dundalk, there are the ruins of Castle Roche. It was built by a woman called Rohesia. She wanted a castle built on a high hill overlooking all that she owned. She said that any man who could build the castle to her exact specifications would gain her hand in marriage and with it, half her lands. Now it wasn’t long before men were lining up to build the castle. Rohesia looked at them, and she made her choice. She selected a young man, and he built her the castle. True to her word, Rohesia married. And she took the hand of her new husband and led him up the stairs to the bridal chamber. She directed him to the great window to look out over all the lands that he now owned: the fields, the sheep, the cattle; and marveling on his good luck, he felt her hand on his shoulder. And as he turned to kiss her, she pushed him from the tower window. He plummeted to his death. Now if you go to Castle Roche, and look up at that fateful window, the wind might start to sound like a shriek, you might think you feel a presence coming closer to you, perhaps the doomed bridegroom, or maybe, it’s Rohesia, the murderous widow, determined to keep her secrets at any cost.

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