Lock Keeper
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Rathmines Bridge, Portobello Harbour
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1861
Further Comments: The hostile phantom of a former lock keeper has been blamed for the deaths of seven people over the years - it takes the form of a blinding light which causes disorientation in witnesses, resulting in them falling into the waters below and drowning.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-04-13
Last updated: 2005-04-13
ID: #6116
Woman with Stick
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Residence in Walkinstown Avenue
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: The Irish Examiner reported that the Quinn's family house was haunted by an elderly woman. The phantom, moving around with the aid of a stick, was said to have been photographed.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2010-08-03
Last updated: 2010-08-03
ID: #9941
Rathfarnham's Dog
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - River Dodder close to Ely's Arch, Rathfarnham
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A dog that died while trying to save its master at Rathfarnham Castle took to haunting this area.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2022-09-19
Last updated: 2022-09-19
ID: #14633
Headless Horseman
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Roper's Rest, leading to Love Lane
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Winter (reoccurring)
Further Comments: This decapitated figure rides along the road once darkness falls, and is thought to be an ill omen for any witness, or one of their family.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-04-12
Last updated: 2022-09-19
ID: #6097
Man in Tweeds
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Sean Kavanaghs public house, aka The Gravediggers, Glasnevin
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Man in 1970s, dog unknown
Further Comments: An elderly man dressed in an old fashioned set of tweeds was said to occasionally sit near the bar. A ghostly dog was also seen just outside the inn.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2011-05-01
Last updated: 2021-08-17
ID: #10428
An old postcard showing the Shelbourne hotel in Dublin.
Mary Masters
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Shelbourne hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century onwards
Further Comments: Medium Sybil Leek said that she had met this young girl in Room 526, and that the youngster was looking for someone named Sophie. In 2015, the hotel claimed that guests would flee one particular room in terror.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-04-02
Last updated: 2005-04-02
ID: #6022
Giggling
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Smock Alley Theatre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2010s
Further Comments: The site of a GhostEire investigation, the phenomenon reported here include childish giggling, mysterious footsteps, and the smell of tobacco smoke.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2024-05-14
Last updated: 2024-05-14
ID: #15373
Lepers
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - St Audoen's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s?
Further Comments: The church is said to be the haunt of lepers. The area outside the church is home to a green lady, reputed to be Darkey Kelly, executed for killing her unborn child (or five men).
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2011-05-01
Last updated: 2011-05-01
ID: #10419
Whispers
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - St Michan's Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The vault under this church contains thirty mummified bodies - people who have listened carefully in the room claim to have heard loud whispering.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-06-08
Last updated: 2005-06-08
ID: #6326
An old postcard showing Dublin's St Patrick's Cathedral.
Boyd's Dog
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - St Patrick's Cathedral
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Dog unknown, clergyman circa 1896
Further Comments: The ghost of a Newfoundland dog sometimes appears at the memorial of John McNeill Boyd - Boyd died rescuing sailors at risk of drowning, and his dog was said to have waited at his master's grave until the day it died. The incorporeal pet is also reported at Glasnevin Cemetery. A phantom clergyman was reported in Lady's Chapel, with one witness recognising the figure as a former resident.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2005-04-13
Last updated: 2005-04-13
ID: #6117
Jonathan Swift
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - St Patrick's Psychiatric Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The author of Gulliver's Travels has been seen many times since 1745, when the hospital which Swift championed finally opened.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-04-12
Last updated: 2005-04-12
ID: #6100
Buck Whaley
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - St Stephen's Green, leading to Cuffe Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Pacing along the road, Whaley's shade is said to follow the well-travelled route he took while living.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-04-13
Last updated: 2005-04-13
ID: #6147
Airman
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Temple Theatre Nightclub (no longer operating) (formally St George's church)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1996 - 2003
Further Comments: A spokesperson for the nightclub claimed that P Diddy had encountered a ghostly airman in the nightclub, which had been a church. Another report said the nightclub, when not open to the public, was also home to the sounds of a church organ being played, the notes punctuated by bouts of coughing.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2023-05-22
Last updated: 2023-05-22
ID: #14921
Shadows
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - The Dublin Hellfire Club
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Though not officially used for many years, visitors to the site at night report dancing shadows in and around the former hunting lodge.
Source:
User Submission
First added: 2005-04-03
Last updated: 2005-04-03
ID: #6055
Larry the Wax
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - The Liberties
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The phantom cobbler known as Larry the Wax would vanish when told to 'go to hell'.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2022-09-19
Last updated: 2022-09-19
ID: #14631
Opening Door
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Tivoli Variety Theatre (closed 1930), Burgh Quay
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A door at the theatre would always be found open - the ghost of a chorus girl who took her own life would be blamed.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2022-09-19
Last updated: 2022-09-19
ID: #14638
Lady Reid
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Town house in Fitzwilliam Square
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom woman has terrorised many visitors to the house who have tried to spend the night in the guest bedroom.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-06-08
Last updated: 2005-06-08
ID: #6325
Corney
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Unknown house near St Stephen's Green
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late nineteenth / early twentieth century
Further Comments: Most of Corney's antics resembled classic poltergeist activity (hiding crockery and cutlery, pinching people as they lay in bed), though he did manifest to a young boy who described him as a naked old man. The haunting became so well known locally that the owners had a very hard time trying to sell the house.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2005-04-13
Last updated: 2005-04-13
ID: #6148
Gammon
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Widow Gammons Hill, Monkstown
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The widow Gammon is said to have informed Cromwell's men that monks were hiding in this area. After her death, the widow's ghost returned to the area, one witness claiming that the phantom had touched his neck, leaving a burn.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2011-05-01
Last updated: 2011-05-01
ID: #10434
Lord Luttrell
Location: Dublin (County Dublin) - Wolfe Tone Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A man reported being followed by a white figure along the street that he believed to be Lord Luttrell, the so-called 'King of Hell', who was killed along the street in 1717.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2022-09-19
Last updated: 2022-09-19
ID: #14636
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