Merrion - Bellevue
Merrion Graveyard known as Bellevue is now a public park located beside the Tara Towers, off the Merrion Road. The Graveyard closed on May 1st 1866 and it became a park under the care of Dublin City Council in 1978.
The graveyard was in use from 1300 to 1866. There was a church nearby, thought to have been erected in the 14th century by John Cruise of Merrion Castle but there are no remains of it today.
"The Prince of Wales', a packet set sail from Kingstown on the 18th November 1807, it sank the following day off the coast as Seapoint."
All 120 soldiers on board drowned, are buried here and there it a tribute memorial just inside the gate on the right.
In November 1807 two ships, the Rochdale and Prince of Wales set sail from Pigeon house harbour in Dublin, bound for England. They were carrying newly recruited militia for the Napoleonic War and their families. An easterly gale forced the two ships onto rocks between Blackrock and Seapoint. They were wrecked and nearly 400 people drowned.
What headstones remain are in reasonable condition.
Transcriptions by June Bow & Karen Poff
August 2015
The graveyard was in use from 1300 to 1866. There was a church nearby, thought to have been erected in the 14th century by John Cruise of Merrion Castle but there are no remains of it today.
"The Prince of Wales', a packet set sail from Kingstown on the 18th November 1807, it sank the following day off the coast as Seapoint."
All 120 soldiers on board drowned, are buried here and there it a tribute memorial just inside the gate on the right.
In November 1807 two ships, the Rochdale and Prince of Wales set sail from Pigeon house harbour in Dublin, bound for England. They were carrying newly recruited militia for the Napoleonic War and their families. An easterly gale forced the two ships onto rocks between Blackrock and Seapoint. They were wrecked and nearly 400 people drowned.
What headstones remain are in reasonable condition.
Transcriptions by June Bow & Karen Poff
August 2015
Merrion Churchyard - Bellevue
(Plotmap not to scale)