Three years after the death of a Co Wicklow priest, light has finally been shed on a mystery as to how letters written by him were posted to a number of recipients over a month after he died in May 2006. The letters, written by the late Fr. Gerard Ellis from Greystones to people living in the Mountainview housing estate, only arrived five weeks after the death of the priest.
The ‘letters from the grave’ episode received considerable attention in the national media at the time.
Now, Fr. Ellis's nephew Gerry has admitted that he posted his uncle’s letters after finding the sealed, stamped and addressed envelopes in his late uncle's room.
He said he felt it incumbent upon him to post them on his behalf and did not know anything about their contents.
Fr Ellis, who was a Holy Ghost father and former chaplain to a convent in Delgany, had written the letters to explain his role in a dispute over land behind his bungalow.
In the first line of the eerie letter, he told recipients that, “by the time this letter reaches you, I shall no longer be among you.”
The letters from the deceased priest went on to explain how he had retired to the Greystones housing estate from the missions and after doing so, had written to residents about the patch of land behind his house that he had cleared and planted with shrubs and flowers.
Fr Ellis went on to say that he had “cleared up issue of the ownership of the land in question.”
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