Le Hellfire Club était censé servir à des rites sataniques et à la débauche au XVIIIe siècle. Situé sur Mountpelier Hill dans les montagnes de Dublin, Irlande.

• Contributeur: George Munday / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2X1Y229
• Taille du fichier: 55,6 MB (1,9 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - oui | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 5400 x 3600 px | 45,7 x 30,5 cm | 18 x 12 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 26 janvier 2023
• Lieu: Mountpelier Hill, Dublin Mountains, County Dublin, Ireland

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Overlooking the city on Mountpelier Hill in the Dublin Mountains, is the infamous Hellfire Club, originally constructed as a hunting lodge by William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons in 1725. It was supposedly erected on the site of a prehistoric cairn and when the property lost its roof in a gale, it was rumoured that Conolly had desecrated the site and a new roof was put in place. Following Conolly’s death in 1729, his widow rented out the lodge for meetings by a group set up in the 1730s known as the Hell Fire Club. It was an informal body, about whom many myths were created especially around the old lodge. Most of the stories involved satanic rites, general debauchery during which members were rumoured to leave a chair vacant at each gathering for the Devil...

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