Case file · Haunting
Dunmore Cave and the massacre of 928
The Annals of the Four Masters record that in 928 the Viking Godfrey of Dublin plundered Dearc Fearna, the cave now called Dunmore in County Kilkenny, killing a thousand people.
928 CE · 52.73, -7.25 · status: disputed
The account
Human remains, many of women and children, have been found in the cave along with Viking-age silver. Folklore also makes the cave the lair of Luchtigern, a monstrous cat killed by a woman warrior.
The sceptical view
It is not reliably confirmed that the bones are the massacre's victims, and the numbers in annals are often inflated.