![]() Several other guests have also reported the sighting of a black mass shooting from the reception area over to the old stone fireplace were the tunnel still resides.Ī worker has also reported being hit by a coin during the end of a busy night’s service, only to turn round to find no-one in the room. The spirit of Elizabeth (has become known as ‘Maud’) is still said to haunt the rooms and corridors of the Inn, stroking the faces of guests. In 1946 the Inn underwent a makeover converting what was then an old dilapidated Inn, into a hotel. Elizabeth’s ghost is the one that wonders the hotel to this day. It wasn’t long before her husband was to discover the affair, and the reports say he murdered both of them with his sword. She used to use a passage at the back of the old stone fireplace to secretly meet with the soldier known simply as ‘Buttoncap’. Elizabeth, the then-wife of the owner Hugh Dobbins, fell in love with a soldier stationed at Carrickfergus Castle. They would go on to hold many secret masses on the property, you are still able to see a priest’s dating in the hotel’s reception area.ĭuring this time the Inn was to acquire its now resident ghost. In the reign of King James I, during the plantation of Ulster, their house was used as a shelter for Catholic priests in the area. ![]() Reginald built a tower house on this patch of land which then remained in the possession of descendants of the family for hundreds of years.īy the 15th Century, the family name was changed to Dobyn and several generations of the family took high office in the area. Around 1200AD Reginald D’ Aubin was given an area of land from the then owners of Carrickfergus Castle. ![]()
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