Dobbin's Inn Hotel

Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland · United Kingdom · Inn

Elizabeth Dobbins and her lover Buttoncap were murdered, and her ghost walks here still.

Dobbin's Inn Hotel in Carrickfergus (BT38 7AF). Around the year 1200 Reginald D'Aubin built a tower here. In the fifteenth century Elizabeth, wife of the owner Hugh Dobbins, fell in love with a soldier known as Buttoncap. When her husband discovered the affair he killed them both with his sword. The ghost of Elizabeth has walked the building ever since. Source: Haunted Places in Britain (PDF compilation).

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Where is Dobbin's Inn Hotel located?

Dobbin's Inn Hotel is in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.

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