Strange goings on at Dun a Rí Forest Park

It is fashioned out of the former Pratt estate of which Cabra Castle was the 'big house'. The subject of a recent redevelopment Dun a ri Forest Park has its own distinctive enchantment with its wishing well, leafy tranquil walks and rushing streams. The park is currently the subject of local conversation centring around the taking of a photograph there recently. The photograph was taken by a Mr. Clarke from nearby Drumconrath who was visiting Dun a Rí with some friends. It was meant to be of two of the friends standing on a well known landmark in the park known as the Rabbit Bridge. However, when the picture was looked at more closely over the Christmas holiday period, it was discovered that there was a third person in it - a young lady with long black hair, dressed in a slip type garment with her bare legs and feet clearly visible. Mr. Clarke took the picture with a digital camera. It was snapped during daylight hours and weather conditions were good at the time. The Rabbit Bridge is a stone built bridge about two feet wide. The two people photographed by Mr. Clarke are pictured with their hands on the railing but when the pictured was processed on the computer it revealed the third person, the girl, to the right. She appears to be bare footed. Dun a Rí Forest Park is steeped in local folklore. Further down from the Rabbit Bridge is another bridge known as Sara"s Bridge. It is stated that Sara was a young woman attached to the Big House who was in a romantic dalliance for so long that when her lover eventually proposed to her that she fell off the bridge in shock. That is the more pleasant version of the incident - there is another suggestion that Sara could have met her death in more suspicious circumstances - that perhaps she could have been murdered. It all a matter of local legend. There have been other claimed reportings of paranormal goings on at Dun a Rí Forest Park - it is claimed that an American couple had photographs taken at the wishing well but when the photographs were developed, as well as their friends being in the picture, there was also an elderly man with a long beard. Dun a Rí Forest Park is a beautiful place - popular for walkers. The mysterious individuals who are turning up in pictures are unlikely to deter visitors to the park - in fact it may increase interest in it. However, it may dissuade people from walking there as darkness approaches.