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Have a look at some of the most haunted places in Dublin, from the mysteries of the Hellfire Club, churches where you can supposedly summon the devil and the dead lingering in the dusty libraries and colleges.

Ghosts of famed writers in dark pubs, still sipping their Guinness, secret societies in the mountains or the victims of the famine, wars, the most haunted places in Dublin range from the obvious old castles and battlefields to the more quaint streets and buildings. 

Read more: Check out all ghost stories from Ireland

Although far from a complete list, let’s have a look at some of the more famous ghost stories and places that are said to be particularly haunted in the capital of the Emerald Island. 

Hellfire Club | Dublin

Montpelier Hill: Here from the hunting lodge at Montpelier Hill in Dublin, were the Hellfire Club had meetings and many of the stories of dark rituals and the likes comes from. //Source: Joe King/Wikimedia

This mysterious ruin perched atop the Dublin Mountains has long been steeped in sinister legend. Built in 1725 as a hunting lodge for William Conolly, the site later became home to the Hellfire Club, a secret society of the rich and powerful said to dabble in the occult, black masses and unspeakable ceremonies. Among the most enduring tales is that the devil himself once appeared as a nobleman invited to play cards with the club’s members, revealing his cloven hooves when picked-up the fallen card from the floor.  Besides those chilling legends the site is associated with ghostly figures, animal sacrifices and the uneasy notion that the lodge was built on top of an ancient grave or standing-stone cairn disturbed by the construction.

Read the whole story: The Mysterious Legends of Hellfire Club on Montpelier Hill

Kilmainham Gaol | Dublin

Built in 1796 and closed in 1924, Kilmainham Gaol housed not only ordinary criminals but many of Ireland’s most famous revolutionaries during the fight for independence. During its restoration in the 1960s workers reported numerous paranormal events like lights switching themselves on, footsteps echoing on empty corridors, and even violent episodes of unseen forces pinning people to walls. 

Read the whole story: The Ghosts of Kilmainham Gaol

Dublin’s Haunted Bars

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Throughout Dublin City, the many pubs and bars come with centuries of stories, some of them ghost stories. From plotting revolutionaries to somber writers, these pubs and bars are said to be a place where some of the patrons have been lingering for a long time. You don’t have to choose between checking out haunted locations and sitting down for a pint in Dublin as the number of haunted pubs and bars around the city will take you around a haunted pub crawl around the streets of Dublin all night. 

Read the whole story: The Haunted Pub Crawl through Dublin

Glasnevin Cemetery | Finglas Road

Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, Ireland’s largest burial ground, spanning over 124 acres with more than 1.5 million burials, and is home to both the nation’s heroes and its restless dead. Among its most famous legends is that of a Newfoundland dog who refused to abandon his master, Captain John McNeill Boyd, after the sailor’s death in 1861. The loyal creature is said to have starved to death by his grave, and even now, witnesses claim to see his ghost wandering the pathways or hear the soft padding of phantom paws in the dark. There are also said to be ghosts from the cemetery venturing into the neighboring pub for a cold one. 

Read the whole story: Glasnevin Cemetery and the Faithful Ghost Dog still Waiting for his Master 

Trinity College Dublin | College Green

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland’s oldest university founded in 1592, is steeped in history and haunted lore that stretches across its centuries-old campus. The most famous ghost story is Edward Ford, a stern Fellow murdered by drunken students in 1734, whose ghost is said to still wander the Rubrics at dusk in his powdered wig and gown. Other spectral figures include physicist George Francis Fitzgerald, mathematician Thomas Meredith, and even Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, who searches eternally for a lost note among his library’s books. The college’s dark past with body snatchers also lingers, as the ghosts of dissected corpses are believed to haunt the School of Medicine, where their remains were once found buried beneath the earth. 

Read the whole story: Trinity College: The Ghostly Scholars Who Never Left 

Dublin Castle | Dame Street

Dublin Castle is said to be haunted by the headless ghosts of prisoners executed centuries ago after attempting to storm its walls. Built on the site of a Viking fortress and serving as the seat of British rule in Ireland for more than 700 years, the castle has witnessed betrayal, bloodshed, and rebellion. The restless spirits of those who met their fate within its grounds are believed to wander the Upper Yard, once the heart of the medieval stronghold. Visitors have reported eerie sensations of being watched, fleeting shadowy figures, and the sound of footsteps echoing through the empty halls. Legends also tell of a grieving woman mourning her lost lover and of strange happenings reported by guards in more recent times, including lights flickering and phantom noises in the night. 

Read the whole story: The Headless Ghosts Haunting Dublin Castle 

Iveagh House | 80-81 Saint Stephen’s Green

Iveagh House: Image/Jnestorius

Once home to the Guinness family and now the Department of Foreign Affairs, is said to be haunted by the spirit of a dying servant girl denied her last rites. According to legend, the young maid, a devout Catholic, begged for a priest as she lay dying, but her Protestant employers refused her plea. After her death, a glowing cross began to appear on her window every Holy Thursday, drawing crowds who prayed beneath it in awe. The mark was said to return even when the glass was scrubbed or replaced, as if the girl’s faith had imprinted itself upon the house forever. Some also link the haunting to Dermot O’Hurley, the Archbishop of Cashel, who was executed nearby in 1584. 

Read the whole story: Iveagh House: The Dying Servant and the Cross in the Window 

Connolly Station | Amiens Street

Image: Thomas Nugent

Connolly Station, one of Dublin’s busiest transport hubs, carries a darker history beneath its bustling platforms. Built in 1844, the station is said to be haunted by the spirit of a weary soldier who wanders the tracks, still waiting for a train that will never come. His apparition, seen by night guards and passengers alike, is linked by some to the tragic Dublin bombing of 1941, when four German bombs struck nearby, killing twenty-eight people. Even today, eerie reports persist of doors opening by themselves, ghostly footsteps echoing through empty halls, and spectral figures seen on security cameras. Other sightings include a Victorian woman near the stairs, a man in a grey suit on platform 5, and a mysterious woman in a sun hat haunting the bus area. 

Read the whole story: Connolly Station: The Soldier Who Waits for a Train That Never Comes 

The Ghost of Buck Jones | Jone’s Road, Drumcondra

The ghost of Buck Jones, Dublin’s infamous headless horseman, is said to haunt Jones’s Road, galloping through the night on a spectral white horse. Once Dublin’s respected City Sheriff, Frederick “Buck” Jones lived a life of privilege before his obsession with gambling led to financial ruin and disgrace. After years of downfall and imprisonment, he died destitute in 1834, cursing the men who betrayed him. Soon after, witnesses began reporting the thunder of ghostly hooves and the chilling sight of a headless rider racing toward Croke Park, clutching his severed head beneath one arm. 

Read the whole story: The Headless Ghost of Buck Jones: Dublin’s Restless Sheriff 

The Four Courts Marshalsea Debtors Prison | Thomas Street, The Liberties

Image: Elinor Wiltshire/1969

The ghost of Pat Doyle is said to haunt the site where Dublin’s Marshalsea Barracks once stood, a grim debtor’s prison in the Liberties where men and their families were confined for the sin of poverty. Desperate to escape, Doyle fell to his death one stormy night while attempting to flee across the roof. Ever since, witnesses have reported hearing footsteps along the vanished walls and seeing a flickering shadow pacing the spot where he fell. Though the prison was demolished in the 1970s, locals still claim that the air around its remains carries a strange chill and the uneasy feeling of being watched.

Read the whole story: The Ghost of Marshalsea Barracks: The Prison That Never Slept 

Croppie’s Acre | Wolfe Tone Quay

Croppies Acre: Overlooking the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. //Source: dronepicr/Wikimedia

Croppie’s Acre, a quiet green stretch beside the River Liffey near Kilmainham, is said to be one of Dublin’s most haunted places. Believed to be a mass grave for the rebels of the 1798 uprising, the field is thought to hold the restless spirits of the “Croppies” who were executed and buried without ceremony after their failed rebellion. Though no remains have ever been officially found, locals insist the ground itself feels uneasy, with tales of cold chills, shifting earth, and shadowy figures watching from the edges. 

Read the whole story: The Haunted Fields of Croppie’s Acre: Dublin’s Restless Rebellion Ground

Number 7 and 8 in Hendricks Street | Smithfield

Once known as Dublin’s most haunted street, Hendrick Street in Smithfield carried a chilling reputation for generations even after the houses were demolished from the 1950s. The adjoining houses at numbers 7 and 8 were said to be home to at least six restless spirits that tormented tenants for decades. Strange knocks, footsteps, and icy drafts plagued those who dared to live there, and many fled after nights of terror. One haunting told of a woman’s ghost pacing the stairs until dawn, while another spoke of a bitter husband’s spirit that lingered by the fireplace to torment his widow. 

Read the whole story: The Haunting of Hendrick Street: Dublin’s Most Cursed Corner

The Black Church | St Mary’s Place, Broadstone

In Dublin 7, the dark stone walls of St Mary’s Chapel of Ease, better known as The Black Church, have long inspired fear and fascination. Built in 1830 from black calp limestone, the church’s ominous appearance gave rise to a legend that the devil himself can be summoned there. Locals say there are three rituals to call him forth: running around the church three times at midnight, circling it backward thirteen times, or reciting the Our Father in reverse at its door. Though it was deconsecrated in the 1960s and now serves as offices, eerie stories persist of cold drafts, flickering lights, and the feeling of unseen eyes watching. 

Read the whole story: The Black Church: Where the Devil Waits in Dublin 

The Ghost of Darkey Kelly | The Green Lady of the Liberties

In the heart of Dublin’s Liberties, the ghost of Darkey Kelly, known as The Green Lady, is said to haunt the 40 steps leading to St. Audoen’s Church. Once an 18th-century innkeeper and madam of the Maiden Tower brothel, Darkey Kelly became entangled with the Hellfire Club and its notorious member, Sheriff Simon Luttrell. Accused of witchcraft and murder after a bitter dispute, she was publicly burned at the stake in 1761. Her execution, one of Dublin’s most brutal, sparked centuries of rumor and legend of her hiding corpses beneath her brothel to tales of dark pacts and vengeance from beyond the grave. To this day, on misty nights, people report seeing her glowing green apparition gliding near St. Audoen’s.

Read the whole story: Darkey Kelly: The Green Lady of the Liberties 

The Haunted National Museum of Ireland: Ghosts of Collins Barracks | Benburb Street

Once the Royal Barracks and now home to the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks in Dublin still echoes with its centuries of military history. Guards and visitors have reported the tread of unseen boots, the ring of distant gunfire, and ghostly figures in Napoleonic uniforms marching across the courtyards. The most famous spirit is that of a First World War Quartermaster who still patrols the east wing, while an old army tale from 1925 tells of ghostly British troops departing for “Blighty” after death. Some even claim to hear a woman’s mournful singing, believed to be the spirit of a young guest allegedly murdered by officers centuries ago. 

Read the whole story: The Haunted National Museum of Ireland: Ghosts of Collins Barracks

St. Patrick’s Cathedral: The Restless Spirit of Jonathan Swift

Within the towering walls of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, whispers of the past still linger. Jonathan Swift, the famed author of Gulliver’s Travels and former Dean of the Cathedral, is believed to haunt the sacred halls he once presided over. Buried beside his beloved Stella, Swift’s peace was shattered when his remains were exhumed in the 1800s for scientific study. Since then, visitors and clergy have spoken of cold drafts, ghostly footsteps, and a tall shadow in clerical robes that drifts through the nave before vanishing into the dim light. Some believe the spirit still guards the cathedral, while others think he wanders between St. Patrick’s and Marsh’s Library, visiting Stella’s skull kept there after the dissection. 

Read the whole story: St. Patrick’s Cathedral: The Restless Spirit of Jonathan Swift and The Haunting in Marsh’s Library in Dublin

The Haunted Shelbourne Hotel and the Ghost of Mary Masters

Shelbourne Hotel: Joseph Mischyshyn / Dublin – Shellbourne Hotel / CC BY-SA 2.0

For nearly two hundred years, this elegant landmark has welcomed kings, poets, and presidents, but one guest has never checked out, said to be Mary Masters, a little girl said to have died of cholera long before the hotel’s construction. The haunting became legend in 1965 when famed paranormal investigator Hans Holzer and psychic Sybil Leek conducted a séance in Room 526. Leek claimed to contact the spirit of a frightened seven-year-old girl who said she had lived and died on the site in the 18th century, searching still for her mother and sister. Since then, countless visitors have reported strange happenings like taps turning on by themselves, soft footsteps, whispers in the dark, and the feeling of a child climbing into bed beside them. 

Read the whole story: The Haunted Shelbourne Hotel and the Ghost of Mary Masters

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Wolfe Tone Square: The Hanging Judge Who Could Not Rest

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In a cemetery turned into a public park, the Wolfe Tone Square is said to be haunted by John Toler, one of Ireland’s most haunted man and remembered as the Hanging Judge. 

Along Jervis Street in Dublin, the hum of the city never seems to stop and Wolfe Tone Square, a public place that hides a far darker past beneath its modern surface. Long before cafés and benches filled the square, this ground was home to St. Mary’s Church and Graveyard, and later the site of a hospital where countless souls drew their final breath. 

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Around the mid-1800s, the graveyard was so overcrowded, they had to gig up buried people to make rooms for others. Still after the area was turned into a park, the last burial was in the 1950s. The earth here has seen centuries of sorrow, and some say it has never forgotten.

Wolfe Tone Square: This statue is located at Wolfe Tone Square, Dublin, Ireland, beside the Jervis Shopping Centre. // Source:
Ag Crú na Gréine “Enjoying the Sun” (2003)

The Hanging Judge Haunting Wolfe Tone Square

Among the many buried in St. Mary’s is one man whose presence still disturbs the peace is thought to be the ghost of John Toler, the Earl of Norbury, known to history as the “Hanging Judge.” 

During his lifetime, Toler earned his grim nickname for his unrelenting cruelty in sentencing men and women to death, often delivering the verdict with a smile. He was deemed Ireland’s most hated man in the 1700s. 

The Hanging Judge: John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury, known as The Lord Norbury between 1800 and 1827, was an Irish lawyer, politician and judge. A greatly controversial figure in his time, he was nicknamed the “Hanging Judge” and was considered to be one of the most corrupt legal figures in Irish history. He was Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas between 1800 and 1827.

One of his most infamous judgments was against a young man convicted of sheep stealing, a crime that, even then, rarely merited the noose. But Toler showed no mercy. The young man was hanged, leaving behind a heartbroken widow. He was also the one who hanged the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet, making him the most hated man in the country. 

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Before she died, the widow is said to have placed a curse upon Toler, condemning him to never find rest in death. When Toler himself passed in 1831, his body was laid to rest in St. Mary’s Graveyard, but his peace was not to last. Some say that his ghost is haunting the area in the form of a black dog. There are also those who talk about eerie sounds near the graveyard — the clanking of heavy chains and the slow, dragging footsteps of something unseen. The noise, they said, would travel from Cabra to Jervis Street, echoing through the night as though the Hanging Judge himself were being marched to an eternal gallows.

There are also people talking about another ghost of a tall dark figure, passing through a wall and walking across the square in the night. The thing is, the bottom part of his legs are underground. 

The Haunted Wolfe Tone Square

Even now, after the graveyard has been cleared and the square transformed, there are whispers that the Earl of Norbury still walks, bound to the earth by the widow’s curse. On quiet nights, when the city falls still, some claim to hear the faint rattle of iron links and the hollow tap of boots across the stones. Few linger long once the sound begins. Wolfe Tone Square may be a place of rest for Dubliners today, but for one soul beneath its soil, rest will never come.

In the early 2000s, excavations uncovered “consideral quantities” of human skeletons were uncovered and sent to museums before the area was covered with gravel and concrete, trying to keep the remaining buried bodies buried. 

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John Mulligans and the Pub Ghost on Poolbeg Street

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A stop on the haunted pub crawl through Dublin, one of the stops would be John Mulligan’s. Stories about glass and bottles flying from the shelves has haunted the place for decades now according to the people behind the bar. 

In the midst of Dublin’s literary quarter you will find John Mulligans, or simply just Mulligan’s, a pub steeped in more than stout. The Mulligan’s on 8 Poolbeg Street has long been a water hole for journalists, poets, and dreamers seeking comfort in its Victorian embrace with no rush to move on with the times. 

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The old wooden bar, polished smooth by generations of hands, seems to hum with memory. Mulligans is no stranger to fame since it opened its door in 1854 on this street. Mulligan’s had already been in business on Thomas Street since 1782. Because of its proximity to the Theatre Royal, it has drawn in artists, actors and writers alike. And according to the rumors, there are some ghosts among the patrons as well. 

The Haunted Mulligan’s Pub

Immortalized by James Joyce in his short story Counterparts, the pub has become a literary landmark, its walls echoing with the voices of Dublin’s creative elite. But fame brings its shadows, and as the night deepens, it is said that the pub’s more spectral patrons emerge. 

Staff behind the bar tell of bottles flying from shelves, doors slamming without warning, and a low, rhythmic banging that rises from the cellar long after closing. A lot of the stories come from what the staff told Declan Dunne, a writer who wrote a book about the history of the bar. As he said himself to the Journal:

“One of the co-owners, Gary Cusack, said a barman saw a bottle of brandy flying off the shelf. It went quite a distance onto the sink and didn’t break. Gary also stayed above Mulligans for a period and without questions he used to hear footsteps and when he went to investigate, there was no one there.”

In the cellar, there are also rumours of a ghost seen sitting on one of the barrels as well according to employee Christy Hynes:

“He wasn’t even looking at me. He was looking straight ahead as if he was minding his own business. I just felt cold.”

As Declan Dunne wrote in his book:

“His brother, Brian, began working in the pub in the 1990s as he was studying for a law degree. He and Gary were working in the front lounge bar when Gary felt and heard a knock from beneath the cellar hatch on which they were both standing. They knew there was no one in the cellar. Gary turned to Brian to ask him if he had noticed anything. Brian had heard and felt the same rap from the hatch. They both waited a while, afraid to check the source of the noise as they laughed nervously. Eventually, Gary opened the hatch and checked the cellar. There was no one there.”

Some have even seen a ghostly figure of a man sitting atop a beer barrel in the basement, silent and watchful, as if guarding something long forgotten.

Those who linger after hours speak of a sudden chill that creeps through the air, the faint scent of tobacco, and a feeling that someone unseen is standing just behind them. Perhaps it is a former patron who could never quite leave the warmth of the pub, or maybe a remnant of the countless stories and sorrows soaked into its floors. 

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The Haunted Shelbourne Hotel and the Ghost of Mary Masters

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According to staff members and guests, paranormal investigators and even celebrities, the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin is haunted. Legend has it that a young cholera victim called Mary Masters has been haunting the place for centuries. 

On the grand curve of St. Stephen’s Green stands The Shelbourne Hotel, a place of elegance, history, and lingering whispers of a ghostly presence. Beneath its crystal chandeliers and polished marble lies nearly two centuries of a mystery. 

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Since opening its doors in 1824, the Shelbourne has welcomed royalty, revolutionaries, poets, and presidents. Among its most enduring guests is one who never left, a little ghost known as Mary Masters.

Shelbourne Hotel: Joseph Mischyshyn / Dublin – Shellbourne Hotel / CC BY-SA 2.0

A Hotel of Grandeur and Ghosts

The Shelbourne Hotel was designed to embody luxury and sophistication, its Georgian façade a testament to Dublin’s golden age. Inside, generations of visitors have come seeking comfort and refinement. Martin Burke from Tupperary bought three of the townhouses on St. Stephen’s Green, wanting to make the grand hotel. 

The Haunted Hotel: Image from 1885 of Shelbourne Hotel.

It is said that one room, in particular, has a reputation that chills even the most skeptical guests: Room 526. Staff and visitors alike have spoken of eerie occurrences like lights flickering, taps turning on by themselves, and the distinct feeling of being watched. The culprit, they say, is a child.

The Haunted Shelbourne Hotel

The story of the haunting came to prominence in 1965 when famed American paranormal investigator Hans Holzer and British psychic Sybil Leek visited The Shelbourne. They were on a tour to explore some of the most haunted places in Dublin. The hotel had already become notorious among staff for unexplainable events, and Holzer was invited to investigate. And if the haunting was a well known thing before they arrived, it certainly became notorious after.

Paranormal Investigators: Sybil Leek (née Fawcett; 22 February 1917 – 26 October 1982) was an English witch, astrologer, occult author and self-proclaimed psychic. She was called Britain’s most famous witch by the BBC. Hans Holzer (26 January 1920 – 26 April 2009) wrote more than 120 books on supernatural and occult and hosted a television show, Ghost Hunter.

How they investigated the hotel and got their information, was not necessarily through historical records. During a séance held in Room 526, or 256 by some accounts, Leek made contact with a spirit who identified herself as Mary Masters.

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The first night, Sybil invited the ghost child into her room, and felt a small child climb into her bed, although she couldn’t see anything. She also claimed to have felt a woolly material brush against her cheek and right arm. When she woke up the next morning, her arm was numb, almost as someone had laid upon it. 

The next evening, Sybil went into a trance and had a full conversation with the child that she was unable to remember when she came too. According to Leek, the girl said she was seven years old, named Mary Masters and had died in the building in the 18th century, before the hotel as we know it was completed. According to them, the little girl seemed to be ill. She described herself as lonely and frightened, unable to find her mother. She was also looking for her big sister, Sophie. The room grew cold during the session, and witnesses claimed they heard the faint sound of a child crying near the window.

Encounters with the Spirit of Mary

Since that famous investigation, countless guests have claimed to experience something strange in the hotel. Some report hearing soft footsteps padding across the carpet in the dead of night. Others have woken to the sensation of a small hand touching their cheek. Maids have spoken of seeing the shadow of a little girl reflected in mirrors or vanishing behind curtains.

The encounter is not really isolated to this one room though, as hotel staff have reported seeing her around the hotel, like in the basement and wine cellar when they are stocking wine, or doing laundry. 

Even the celebrity and actress Lily Collins shared publicly about her ghostly encounter when she stayed at the Shelbourne Hotel when she was interviewed on Jimmy Fallon. As she was sleeping in room 255 she felt a presence by her bed and a giggle before doors started slamming and a rush of air flew past her. When asking about it, the hotel staff told her about Mary Masters. 

Lily Collins and her Ghost Experience: Worth noting though, is that Lily Collins is a firm believer in ghosts, as she also claimed to have experienced the ghost of Ted Bundy’s victim when she was filming his biopic, “Extremely Wicked”. Here, she started to wake up at 3:05 am every night in preproduction. “I started being woken up by flashes of images, like the aftermath of a struggle,” she said

Documenting the Haunting at Shelbourne Hotel

In an RTÉ documentary about the staff working at the historical hotel, that seems to be from 2014/2015, management at the palatial hotel admitted that on several occasions, terrified guests had run out of the eerie room screaming in panic.

The hotel managers even gave a staff member orders to stay in the room overnight as there were so many reports about activity, at least 2-3 times per week over a period of six months. The staff member didn’t particularly believe it all, but were convinced when the taps in the bathroom turned as the guests had complained about. 

Uncovering the Mystery of Mary Masters

The ground on which the Shelbourne stands has seen centuries of Dublin’s transformation. Before the hotel was built, this area of St. Stephen’s Green was lined with Georgian townhouses, one of which may have been the Masters’ family home. Early tenants in the 1600 and 1700s built simple two-storey houses, with much of it undeveloped on the 1728 map. By the time of John Roque’s map in 1756, the pace of building had accelerated rapidly.

But who was Mary Masters? The little girl said to haunt the hotel? According to most sources, they claim she used to live in one of the three townhouses that was before the hotel.

According to the paranormal researches in 65, Mary Masters had died in 1846, and was one of the children growing up in the houses that stood on the ground before they were made into the hotel. This is strange to say though, as the hotel was founded in 1824 by Martin Burke. Apparently, Sybil Leek got the year in one of her trances. 

So, it’s rather unlikely that was the year she died. It did get a new owner and was renovated in 1865 by William Jury, Charles Cotton and Christian Goodman, but the building was used as a hotel all the while. 

And as in the retelling from Lily Collins and the staff, they told that Mary had actually died of cholera in 1791 and that little  Mary must have been around 7 years old. This is the year that has been passed around most perhaps, as it seems to fit more with the narrative of the buildings. Although, there have been no traces of any family named Masters or a girl named Mary who lived in one of the three town houses. 

But was there cholera in Ireland in 1791? It is believed that Cholera were introduced to Ireland from India, probably through British troops. The epidemic in Ireland was in the 1830s, and killed 50 000 people. It is said that the illness started in India in 1817. So this story is also rather improbable. 

While skeptics dismiss the tale as hotel folklore, the stories persist. Modern visitors still ask for Room 526, curious or brave enough to see if the stories are true. Some leave convinced they felt something unseen, while others depart with nothing more than a chill that refuses to fade.

According to investigators, most of the supposed haunting has turned out to be banging noises from plumbing, bad wiring that increases the electromagnetic field that has turned out makes people paranoid and seeing things. There are also scratching noises in the attic that have turned out to be mice and rats. But as always, there are some points that are still left unanswered.

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Brogans Bar: The Secret Passage to the Past

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Said to house both piles of Guinness, the Brogan’s Bar in Dublin is also said to house a few ghosts. Visitors and staff have long talked about the strange things that go down at the pub after the final call has been rung. 

On the busy stretch of Dame Street, tucked beside the historic Olympia Theatre, stands Brogans Bar, a place where Dublin’s laughter mingles with whispers from centuries past and a few ghosts lingering according to the tales. 

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Long before it became known by its present name, it was called Leonards, and even then it held a reputation as one of the city’s oldest and most characterful taverns. It also served like The Viking Inn, one of the first gay bars in Dublin. 

The bar is said to have the largest collection of Guinness memorabilia outside of the brewery. Within its low ceilings and time-worn beams, stories of politics, rebellion, and revelry have soaked into the walls like spilled whiskey. Michael Collins himself is said to have been a regular, plotting the future of Ireland over a quiet pint. Yet not all of Brogans’ visitors have been so easily seen.

The Haunted Brogan’s Bar

Those who close up after the final rounds have long reported strange happenings in the shadows of the bar. Soft footsteps echo across the wooden floors when no one else is there. Being next door from the notoriously haunted Olympia Theatre has also fueled the rumours of this building  having ghost of their own. 

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Like with the theatre, the haunting in this bar is said to be a bit vague, although prominent. Glasses rattle as if disturbed by invisible hands. On one unsettling occasion, a door was smashed open with such force that staff believed an intruder had entered, only to find the pub empty and still. There are also reported about mysterious footsteps after closing time.

So what could be haunting the Brogan’s? Could it have something to do about the alleged secret tunnels underneath the building? The pub lies directly opposite the ancient entrance to Dublin Castle. Beneath Brogans, according to local legend, lies a secret passageway that once ran directly under Dame Street and into the heart of Dublin Castle. No one knows exactly when it was built, or for what purpose, but many believe it was used for discreet meetings, smuggling, or escape during troubled times. 

Today, the entrance is said to be sealed, though some claim to feel cold drafts rising from the cellar floor and hear faint voices murmuring below. Perhaps the passage is not as closed as it seems. When the lights dim and the street outside grows quiet, Brogans Bar stands as a reminder that Dublin’s history is never truly buried. 

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Bull and Castle Pub: The Melancholy Ghost of James Clarence Mangan

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Said to haunt his former childhood home that is now the Bull and Castle Pub in Dublin, the ghost of the melancholic writer James Clarence Mangan is said to linger. 

At the corner of Lord Edward Street, across from Christ Church Cathedral, stands the Bull and Castle Pub that used to be known as The Castle Inn. The building hums with laughter and the clink of glasses, but every so often, when the music dips and the air grows strangely still, a cold presence sweeps through the room. The warmth vanishes, the lights dim ever so slightly, and those who know the story say the poet has returned. 

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James Clarence Mangan, Ireland’s most tormented wordsmith, was born on this very ground in 1803, and some believe his spirit still lingers where his troubled life began.

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The Ghost of James Clarence Mangan

Before it was a pub, it was the birthplace of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), or Séamus Ó Mangáin as it was in Irish. He was born at number 3 Fishamble Street, the ancient Virus Piscariorum of Dublin, on the first day of May, 1803. It was a pub back then also, but the original building has been torn down and rebuilt. 

He was the son of James Mangan, a former hedge school teacher and native of Shanagolden, County Limerick, and Catherine Smith from Kiltale, County Meath. After marrying Smith, James Mangan took over a grocery business in Dublin owned by the Smith family, eventually becoming bankrupt as a result.

After the famine in 1840, he started to write patriotic poetry and was seen as one of Ireland’s first national poets. The poet was best known for his work Róisín Dubh.

Mangan was both celebrated and cursed. Renowned by literary giants like Yeats and Joyce, he lived as if haunted long before death. A frail and eccentric figure, he was known for his peculiar costume: a long, tattered cloak, tinted green spectacles, and a blond wig that barely masked his gaunt features as well as his witch’s hat and umbrella. 

Beneath that eccentricity hid a soul consumed by melancholy, opium, and drink. His poetry spoke of exile, despair, and doomed longing, and it is said those same feelings have soaked into the very foundations of the Bull and Castle.

After years of despair, he sadly died of cholera in 1849 when he was only 46 and buried in Glasnevin Cemetery. But is he truly gone, or is he still haunting his childhood home?

The Haunted Bull and Castle Pub

Locals whisper that the pub’s strange chills and sudden silences are not tricks of the air but signs of Mangan’s ghost revisiting his birthplace. Some have heard soft mutterings near the back of the bar, as if someone were reciting verse in a voice that carries both sorrow and beauty.

Patrons who stay late often describe a creeping heaviness that settles without warning, a melancholy that drains conversation and leaves only the distant sound of a sigh and the pints empty.

Perhaps the poet is drawn back to where his story began, still searching for peace he never found in life. Or perhaps his verses, so steeped in loss, have tethered him to this world. Either way, the Bull and Castle holds more than good ale and hearty company. Beneath its laughter, the ghost of James Clarence Mangan waits, cloaked in sorrow and memory, drifting once more through the city that both inspired and destroyed him.

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Darkey Kelly: The Green Lady of the Liberties

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Was she a Witch or Serial Killer with connection to the Hellfire Club that her legends paint her to be? What was the true story behind Darkey Kelley, said to haunt Dublin as the Green Lady of the Liberties.

In the twisting lanes of Dublin’s Liberties, there is a tale whispered even now on misty nights. At the bottom of the 40 steps leading to St. Audoen’s Church, an apparition sometimes appears of a woman shrouded in green light, her form wreathed in fog. She drifts silently before vanishing into the old stone wall as if swallowed by time itself. 

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Locals call her The Green Lady. Many believe she is the restless spirit of one of Dublin’s most infamous figures: Darkey Kelly.

The Life and Death of Darkey Kelly

Dorcas “Darkey” Kelly lived in 18th-century Dublin, an innkeeper and madam who ran the Maiden Tower brothel near Fishamble Street. A pub on Fishamble Street, near where her brothel once stood, is named Darkey Kelly’s.

The tavern was said to attract the city’s most powerful men, including members of the notorious Hellfire Club, a society of Dublin’s elite who indulged in blasphemy, debauchery, and whispers of occult rituals. Among her patrons was Simon Luttrell, the Sheriff of Dublin and a reputed Hellfire Club member who had the nickname “King of Hell”.

According to legend, Darkey and Luttrell were once close, perhaps even lovers, until a bitter feud erupted between them. Some stories claim she accused Luttrell of fathering her child, a scandal that threatened his reputation. Others say she discovered something dark about the club’s rituals — something she was never meant to know. Whatever the truth, Luttrell turned on her, accusing her of witchcraft and infanticide.

In 1760, Darkey Kelly was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death of killing the shoemaker John Dowling by partial hanging and burning at the stake at Gallows Road, now called Baggot Street. She was publicly burned at the stake on St. Stephen’s Green on January 7th. 

An account described her execution like this:

She was placed on a stool something more than two feet high, and, a chain being placed under her arms, the rope around her neck was made fast to two spikes, which, being driven through a post against which she stood, when her devotions were ended, the stool was taken from under her, and she was soon strangled. When she had hung about fifteen minutes, the rope was burnt, and she sunk till the chain supported her, forcing her hands up to a level with her face, and the flame being furious, she was soon consumed. ~ Edward Cave, 1773

Legends After her Death

After her death, her prostitute friends collected, or rather stole her remains, and held a wake for her on Copper Alley, however, the 13 women were arrested for disorder and sent to Newgate Prison for it. 

Newgate Prison

There were many legends and stories about her burning. For posterity, people believed that she was in fact burned at the stake as a witch, not on a murder charge. Witnesses said she screamed curses as the flames rose, vowing vengeance on those who condemned her. 

Another legend was that she became pregnant with the child of Dublin’s Sheriff Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton, a member of the Hellfire Club and probable client of Kelly’s Maiden Tower. She demanded financial support from him. He responded by accusing her of witchcraft and of having killed their baby in a Satanic ritual. The body was never found. Darkey was then burnt at the stake.

A 1788 account in the World newspaper claims that her brothel was investigated by the authorities and that investigators then found the corpses of five men hidden in the vaults. One of them was thought to be Surgeon Tuckey’s son, who went missing and had never been found.

However, this does not appear in any contemporary account of her trial and execution and appears to be a later embellishment. So how accurate this investigation was, is rather dubious.

The Hellfire Connection

Darkey Kelly’s ties to the Hellfire Club deepen her legend and has perhaps even overshadowed it. The infamous group met in the Dublin Mountains at Montpelier Hill, a site already steeped in dark lore. It is said that Darkey supplied women for the club’s meetings, unaware of the darker rituals that took place there. Some tales even claim she witnessed a summoning gone wrong like that she saw the Devil himself.

Read the whole story about the Hellfire Club in Dublin: The Hellfire Club on Montpelier Hill and The Killakee Dower House in Dublin and the haunted mysteries connected to the club.

Whether she was a victim of vengeance, a scapegoat for the sins of powerful men, or something more sinister, the truth remains shrouded in shadow. The Hellfire Club’s reputation for corruption and cruelty only strengthens the belief that Darkey Kelly’s fate was one of betrayal and injustice.

Montpelier Hill: Here from the hunting lodge at Montpelier Hill in Dublin, where the Hellfire Club had meetings and many of the stories of dark rituals and the likes comes from. //Source: Joe King/Wikimedia

Was the father of her alleged child one of the members of the Hellfire Club? Darkey had contested a trial on the grounds that she was pregnant. After it was found that she was not with child by a jury of midwives, she was sentenced in January 1761. Had she even been pregnant? Perhaps the two parts of Dublin’s darker history have merged because of the mysterious and dark aspects?

The Haunting of the 40 Steps

Centuries later, her ghost is said to linger near St. Audoen’s Church, close to where she once lived. Those who have seen her describe a woman in tattered skirts glowing faintly green, her face both sorrowful and fierce. She appears at the bottom of the ancient stone steps, drifting upward before fading into the wall itself.

She is also said to have been seen walking down Fishamble Street towards Copper Alley. 

For some, she is a tragic spirit  who was wronged, burned, and forgotten as a human where another legendary figure took her place. The additional torture for her execution were certainly not something a man would go through for the same crime as he would only be hanged until death. For others, she is a reminder of the cruelty that hides behind respectability and power. Either way, her story lives on, whispered through the cobbled streets of the Liberties.

When the fog thickens and the church bells toll midnight, take care walking near the 40 steps. The Green Lady might be waiting there, her eyes glowing faintly in the dark, keeping watch over the city that condemned her.

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Davy Byrne’s Pub: The Ghost of James Joyce Still Raising a Glass

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Said to appear in the mirror of his favorite place for a pint in Dublin, the ghost of James Joyce is rumored to still linger in Davy Byrne’s Pub. 

In the heart of Dublin’s literary quarter stands one of the city’s most famous pubs, Davy Byrne’s, where polished wood, gleaming mirrors and a literary history draws people from near and far. Some even say that some stay after their death. 

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For more than 125 years, this elegant public house has been a gathering place for writers, rebels, and thinkers. Yet behind its warm glow and literary fame lingers a story of something spectral. They say that James Joyce himself, the master of Dublin’s soul, never truly left the place that helped make him immortal.

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A Pub of Poets and Patriots

First opened in 1889, Davy Byrne’s Pub quickly became a cornerstone of Dublin’s social life. The upstairs rooms were once used for clandestine Republican meetings, with none other than Michael Collins himself said to have gathered here in secret during Ireland’s struggle for independence. The pub became a crossroads of revolution and intellect, where whispers of rebellion mixed with the smoke of pipes and the clink of glasses.

But while politics left its mark on these walls, literature would make the pub eternal. James Joyce, who frequented the establishment in the early 1900s, captured its spirit in his masterpiece Ulysses, where Leopold Bloom famously orders a gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of burgundy at Davy Byrne’s. That passage ensured that the pub’s name would live forever, etched into the pages of one of the greatest novels ever written. Joyce also mentioned the pub in the short story “Counterparts” in Dubliners as a bar visited by the office clerk protagonist named Farrington following an altercation with his senior at the office.

The Writer Who Never Left

Book fans travel long distances to visit the place and The pub is particularly popular on Bloomsday, an annual 16 June celebration of both the book and James Joyce.

Regulars and staff will tell you that Joyce still lingers here. His image, they say, appears in the bar’s ornate mirrors, watching quietly from the corner as if observing his characters come to life once more. Some claim that his reflection moves independently, tilting its head or raising a glass, even when no one is standing nearby.

The Ghost of a Writer: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce[a]; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.

A few have even reported hearing the faint scratch of a pen on paper, or the ghostly murmur of a man reciting words from memory. Whether it is the echo of Joyce’s creative spirit or a trick of the mind, no one can say for certain.

Between Literature and the Beyond

For some, it makes perfect sense that Joyce would haunt Davy Byrne’s. The pub was his muse, a place that embodied Dublin’s wit, melancholy, and vitality. Perhaps his spirit simply returns to where the city felt most alive to him. Or perhaps he lingers to see if his words are still spoken, if readers and wanderers still come to trace the path of Ulysses.

Today, Davy Byrne’s remains one of the most beloved pubs in Dublin, where tourists and locals alike gather to taste a pint and a slice of literary history. Yet those who know its story may pause before the mirrors, half-expecting to glimpse a familiar figure in a dark coat and round spectacles smiling faintly back.

If you do, raise your glass. It might just be that James Joyce has come back for one last drink in the pub he never could forge

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The Black Church: Where the Devil Waits in Dublin

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A church with the sinister name The Black Church in Dublin has a legend that claims if you follow the ritual, you will be able to summon the devil. 

In the quiet streets of Dublin 7, where old stone and shadow mingle, there stands a building that has said to hold the power to summon the devil. Surprising enough, it is a former church and chapel. 

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St Mary’s Chapel of Ease, better known as The Black Church, is built of dark calp limestone that seems to drink in the light. When it rains the limestone takes on a dark hue when getting wet, hence the name it was given. Once a place of worship, it now serves as offices, yet few locals can walk past it after dark without glancing over their shoulder. The reason is simple: the devil is said to dwell here.

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The Church of Shadows

Built in 1830, protestant chapel, The Black Church was designed to serve parishioners who lived too far from St Mary’s on Marlborough Street. It even has a mention in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Over the years, however, its eerie appearance earned it a far darker reputation. The rough, blackened stone gave the building a funereal air, and as the decades passed, stories began to grow about strange whispers, cold drafts, and the feeling of being watched even in daylight.

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When the church was deconsecrated in the 1960s, many claimed it was not just falling attendance that led to its closure, but something more sinister. Some even said that during its final service, the candles flickered violently and the air turned ice cold as if something within the walls had awoken.

Summoning the Devil

Every haunting has its ritual, and The Black Church has three. Locals whisper that there are only three ways to summon the devil himself.

  • One version says you must run around the church three times at midnight, your footsteps echoing on the empty street.
  • Another insists you must walk around it in reverse exactly thirteen times without looking away from the building.
  • The final, and perhaps most blasphemous, claims that if you stand before its door and recite the Our Father backwards, the devil will appear before you.

No one admits to trying all three. Some say a student once dared to, only to vanish without a trace, his friends finding his shoes by the entrance the next morning.

A Warning in Stone

Though time has softened its purpose, The Black Church remains one of Dublin’s most enduring legends. Whether or not the devil ever walked its grounds, its stones hold a strange gravity that draws the curious and the foolish alike.

If you ever find yourself near St Mary’s Place on a still night, take care. You may feel tempted to test the legend, to run around its walls or whisper a forbidden prayer. But remember the warnings of the locals and those who call upon the darkness at The Black Church may find that it answers.

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The Haunting of Hendrick Street: Dublin’s Most Cursed Corner

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In the dark Hendrick Street in Dublin, there once were two houses said to be some of the most haunted ones in town. Occupied by at least six ghosts, some say they still linger in their old street. 

In Smithfield, Dublin, once stood a narrow, unassuming street that locals long avoided after dark. Not much was known about the street between the corn and cattle market of the city. Hendrick Street, now mostly vanished from the map, was for generations whispered about as Dublin’s most haunted street where more than one house had a haunted story.

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Though the old Dutch Billys houses from the 1730s were demolished in the 1960s, the ground where numbers 7 and 8 once stood is said to remain restless and was the worst location for the haunting going on in the street. The stories claim that no fewer than six spirits are bound to this cursed patch of land, forever replaying the tragedies that once unfolded behind its doors.

The Six Ghosts of Hendrick Street

The haunting of Hendrick Street began long before the bulldozers came. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the area was densely packed with tenements, where poverty, sickness, and despair clung to the air like a fog. Numbers 7 and 8 were said to be especially ill-fated. This is said to have especially been from the 1920s and leading up to the house’s demolitions. 

By the turn of the 20th century, Hendrick Street’s reputation had darkened beyond repair. Residents spoke of six distinct apparitions that haunted the adjoining houses. 

Tenants rarely stayed long, claiming to hear knocking on the walls at night, furniture moving by itself, and cold hands brushing against their faces in the dark. It was especially inside number 7 and 8 in the street that people were bothered by ghosts.

The Dark History of Number 7

One story in particular tells about a family who moved into number 7. An old house where many people had lived and died. It isn’t really specified exactly when this family moved in, but it is more likely to be from the early to mid 20th century. When they arrived they were warned to not go downstairs after dark. Apparently a woman had died in the house and was heard walking up and down the stairs from midnight to the clock struck five, every night. 

The father of the house came home one evening and couldn’t unlock the door. He heard someone coming running down the stairs inside and the door flew open. But when he looked inside, there was no one there, and he only felt the sensation of a cold wind passing him by. 

The Ghost by the Fireplace in Number 8

In the neighboring house there was an elderly couple living once. According to the story, they hated each other in life, but seemed to be unable to part in the afterlife. After the man, a horrid mad according to the rumours passed, he remained in the house to haunt his wife. 

She hated him so much, she was glad he had died. But one night he came back to shout at her. He was also said to have been lingering by the fireplace. Because of his torment even beyond death, she eventually said to have gotten an exorcism. 

Both number 7 and 8 were said to have been demolished as far back as 1953 because of the poor state of them. 

Hendrick Street No. 15-19

Not only were the two houses on the street said to be haunted, but so were the buildings right across from them as well. It used to be an industrial block that has now turned into a retail outlet. 

According to the rumours, there was a young girl said to haunt the building and would appear in front of people. People walking by would report about seeing faces in the windows of the building when no one was supposed to be inside. 

Dublin’s Forgotten Haunting

Today, Hendrick Street is little more than a memory, yet its ghostly reputation has never faded. In its place, The Hendrick Smithfield Hotel has been built in its place. Although the hotel acknowledges the streets’ haunted history, there isn’t really much to go on in terms of newer ghost stories. It is however still a stop on many ghost tours in the city.  

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