Mysterious Deaths, Revivals, Gold, and Vampires in Ireland?

Early last month, three brothers were found dead in their beds in Drimalegue, county Cork, Ireland.  The boys had no signs of having been attacked in their sleeps and all were previously in good health.  The morning of their deaths, a wake was held at their home.

Kate, a young woman from the village is said to have approached the boys’ father and told him that she would save the man’s sons if he agreed to give her Gort na Leachtan (a field of stone heaps) and to marry her to his oldest son.  Kate sent all of the town’s people out of the house.  When she reopened the doors to the family’s home, she sent the boys’ father inside to wake his sons.  The three brothers were found groggy, but in good health and had no memory of the previous night.

The following week, Kate married the family’s eldest son.  The couple and their families have since found huge amounts of gold buried in Gort na Leachtan.  The families believe that the money had been the Derrihy family’s.

An anonymous informant claimed that Kate had disappeared the night before the three brothers’ “deaths”.  Kate has since reported that she had been summoned by Michael Derrihy’s corpse the night that the boys were “killed” and that he had slit their throats and consumed their blood in oatmeal that night.  She reported that the corpse later told her that the boys could be saved by three bites of their blood and oatmeal, luckily although she had instructed to consume the boys’ blood with the man, she had managed to conceal the food and stash it in the boys’ home.  She claims that this is how she saved the three brothers.  The boys’ deaths and revivals remain a mystery but it seems that vampires may once again be active in Ireland.