friar’s bush graveyard
September 19th, 2008
On Sunday I visited Belfast’s oldest Catholic site, Friar’s Bush Graveyard, on the Stranmillis Road. Catholics met here before St Mary’s Church was built 1784. A major cholera epidemic struck in 1832-33 and the graveyard has a large mound where over 400 victims’ bodies were buried. This mound is known as ‘The Plaguey Hill’. The [...]
