On our last night in Ireland, we stayed at Cabra Castle. As the coach drove up, our tour director told us it was haunted. (The story of the ghost of Sarah below.) After unpacking, Don and I went to dinner. Upon our return, as we opened the door, I heard a noise in the bathroom. When I went in to check, my makeup brush was lying in the sink. All the makeup had been lying in the window well on the other wall, 10 feet away and I had not used that particular brush that night. Did we interrupt Sarahs makeup routine? Or was she just being mischievous? In The 1780’s, the local people of Dun Na Rí witnessed the unfolding of the tragic saga which was to become the legend of the ghost which still haunts Cabra Castle to this present day – dare to walk the corridors of this haunted castle knowing that the footsteps that went before you were that of evil predecessors………The then owners of the castle had a daughter and two sons, one of whom fell in love with a servant girl called Sarah. In true Romeo & Juliet – style, it was a passionate but secret love, which for the sake of property, could only be pledged silently. The secret was broken when Sarah became pregnant and her lovers family ordered that she was to be killed; legend has it that she was taken from the Servants Quarters of the castle and dragged deep into the forest, where her body was hung over a bridge. It is said that in the dead of the night, the haunting cries of a baby may still be heard in Cabra Castle. Local people say that the baby is pining for its mother. There is also a testament by those who have felt ‘a presence’ in the courtyard rooms – formerly the Servant’s Quarters where it is said that Sarah’s lost soul still wanders the Castle in search of her lost love and her lost child, This story is believed by many local people and the staff that work at Cabra Castle, some of whom claim they have even seen her!!!!!
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:59:38 +0000
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