Macabre Dublin Tour
Tour Type: City Tour
Tour Operator: Yellow Umbrella
Tour Duration: 2 hours
What can I expect
- Meet at Spire – Look out for the Yellow Umbrella!
- Explore some lesser-known areas of Dublin
- Discover parts of Dublin with a very gruesome past
Yellow Umbrella – Macabre Dublin Tour
The tour guide (who you’ll spot as he always carries a is big yellow umbrella), introduces participants to sinister stories, ghostly legends, and notorious characters associated with Dublin’s haunted past.
Hear the story about the Death of Cúchulainn – the mighty warrior who had his eyes pecked out by the raven on his shoulder.
Learn about the thriving 19th- century business of grave robbing beside the city mortuary.
Discover the stories of:
- Mummified corpses
- Legless serial killers
- Man-eating rats
To finish off the tour, beside Dublin’s famous Christ Church Cathedral, you’ll hear of Dublin’s most famous brothel keeper and how she was burned at the stake!
The tour visits landmarks including:
- General Post Office
- Wolfe Tone Square
- St. Michan’s Church
- St. Audeon’s Church
- Christ Church Cathedral
- Fishamble Street
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