In 1858 the subject was discussed in Notes and Queries.

A reference was given to Lyon's privately printed Grand Juries of Westmeath from 1751.
The version from that rare work, a version dated "Dublin, August, 1802," was published in Notes and Queries of 24th July, 1858.

In December, 1896, a member of the Beresford family published in The Nines (a journal of the Wiltshire regiment), the account which follows, derived from a MS.

at Curraghmore, written by Lady Betty Cobbe, granddaughter of the ghost-seer, Lady Beresford.

The writer in The Nines remembers Lady Betty.