13 Haunting Places in Ireland to Visit in This Lifetime

Sligo Abbey has several intriguing effigies and burial markers, and it also served as inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Stoker's mother Charlotte Thornley lived in Sligo Town during the 1832 cholera epidemic, and years later she would captivate her son with firsthand stories of still-living victims struggling to pull themselves out of mass graves, bodies piled on the altar in the abbey's church, and heavy rainfall dislodging the shallow burials in the churchyard. Thornley's diary is on display at the abbey's visitor center.