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Oh Crap! re: PhOtOs/Videos-SPOOKY GHOST Towns/Haunted Places

The Spooky Irish Ghost Town of Bantry, North Dakota (PHOTOS)





Irish place names in the US: Bantry, North Dakota. US. Andrew Flier/Creative Commons



It sets the scene for many horror movie - an abandoned, run-down, old town with buildings shuttered up and all of the residents having fled to safer pastures. A place appearing empty until some poor group of friends with a broken-down car discovers the real reason why the town has been abandoned and so begins the terror and murder.


Well, we can't say that this is exactly true of the town of Bantry in North Dakota, but we certainly wouldn't like to be left wandering alone there at night!
The small town called Bantry sits in the northern part of McHenry County, North Dakota, which was founded in 1873 and named for James McHenry, an early settler in the area and the son of an Irish immigrant.





At street in Bantry, Co. Cork. Photo by Pam Brophy/Creative Commons



Bantry was founded in 1905, by all accounts by Irish immigrants, who named it after Bantry, Co. Cork.



The Bantry in Ireland is a seaside town on Ireland’s south-west coast by Bantry Bay. Its name in Irish, Beanntraí, translates to "(place of) Beann's people." Today its population is a little over 3,000





View from the south shore of Bantry Bay, Ireland. Photo: Pam Brophy/Creative Commons


Bantry, North Dakota is a different story. According to Ghosts of North Dakota, a blog that explores the state’s many ghost towns – old pioneer settlements whose populations dwindled over the years until there was barely anything left – Bantry is today a ghost town, or very close to it.

As they explain, “According to North Dakota Place Names by Douglas A. Wick, Bantry peaked at a population of 315 in 1920.”







The abandoned bank of Bantry, North Dakota. Photo: Troy Larson/Ghosts of North Dakota


Bantry’s population petered out rapidly from then on, with a population of 93 by 1960, 23 by 1980, and a mere 14 people in 2010 according to the US Census.

Ghosts of North Dakota paid a visit to Bantry and photographed its abandoned, shuttered buildings, including the old bank and church.





Abandoned Bantry, North Dakota. Photo: Troy Larson/Ghosts of North Dakota



But it seems that Bantry is still very much alive in people’s memories. The website’s comment section is full of messages from people who grew up in Bantry or had relatives who lived there, recalling the old days and the local gathering spot called Frank’s Bar.
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