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Friar's Bush Graveyard is Belfast's oldest Christian burial site, [1] located on the Stranmillis Road in South Belfast.
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Friar's Bush Graveyard is Belfast's oldest Christian burial site, [1] located on the Stranmillis Road in South Belfast.
The mysterious Friar's stone in the cemetery bears the inscription AD 485. [1] The oldest headstone in the cemetery was erected to the memory of Thomas Gibson who died in 1717. During the 1800s, the cemetery was repeatedly raided by body-snatchers, including in 1823 when the bodies of a woman and a child were stolen from the graveyard, although they were later returned. [1]
The cemetery is the resting place of thousands of victims of the Cholera epidemic of the 1830s and the Great Irish famine of the 1840s. [1] These people were buried in a mound dubbed 'Plaguey Hill', which is located just inside the cemetery's main gates. [2] Also located inside the graveyard's main gates is the "Pauper's Pit", which is the resting place of those too poor to afford a headstone. By the mid 19th-century, the cemetery was becoming overcrowded, and only families with burial rights were allowed to be interred, [2] and in 1869 it was replaced by Milltown Cemetery as the city's main Catholic burial site. [1]
The graveyard is the resting place of the famed baker and philanthropist Bernard (Barney) Hughes who died in 1878. [3]
Friar's Bush has been maintained by the Belfast City Council since 2000, having previously been owned by the Catholic Church. [2]
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