The Cry of Rossmore

Lord Rossmore, commander of the forces in Ireland, died suddenly in the night between 5 and 6 August 1801 at his Dublin house, having been at a drawing room at the Castle until eleven. Sir Jonah Barrington, whose account Chambers reprints, was woken about two by a sound softer than any voice and wilder than any music, which seemed to float in the air and then to rise from the grass plot below his window; his wife and her maid heard it too. After half an hour came a deep sigh, a low cry and the name Rossmore called three times. In the morning a servant brought word that Lord Rossmore had died at about half past two, and Barrington stood by the story when he was mocked for publishing it.