12 Eerie Haunted Spots in Dublin

It’s not just for Halloween!

St Kevin’s Park, once known as St Kevin’s Cemetery because it housed the bodies of famine victims unable to afford a proper burial. Those bodies left unclaimed are still here and the park is thought to be haunted — or cursed. ©WOTR

As Halloween nears, my mind turns to things spooky, haunted, scary. I think of darkened corners, their smell musty from centuries of avoidance, cobwebs clinging to ancient walls, providing goose bumps and sheepish grins in equal doses.

In Dublin recently, that spirit — or the spirits — felt quite alive. In the land of mythical leprechauns and faeries, I meandered into shadowy caves, eerie graveyards, and came across (I firmly believe this) things that go bump in the night.

Because Dublin is haunted. It has to be.

If it weren’t, why would so many people tell its stories, guide you through abandoned buildings and neighborhoods, and dutifully study its somewhat frightening legends?

Haunted Dublin legends and stories

Take Hendrick Street: it has a reputation as Dublin’s most haunted street, especially where numbers 7 and 8 used to stand.

Number 7 was once an expensive home which was allowed to run down, like other houses nearby, until…