Merrion Cemetery, Bellevue () is a cemetery located on Bellevue Avenue off the Merrion Road in

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a short distance to the north west of

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. The recently demolished "Tara Towers" hotel was adjacent to the graveyard. The cemetery was in use from 1300 to 1866. Since 1978 it has been used as a public park under the care of

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History

It is not known when the graveyard was consecrated, but there used to be a church here and thought to have been erected in the 14th century by John Cruise of

Merrion Castle Merrion Castle was a castle situated about 300m south of the present-day Merrion Gates, to the south of Dublin city centre. Built in the early fourteenth century, it was from the sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century the principal s ...

. There are no remains of the church today.Igoe, Vivien (2001). "Dublin Burial Grounds & Graveyards", Wolfhound Press, p. 160, The most notable burial here is of the 120 soldiers of the transport packet called the ''Prince of Wales''. The ship had set sail from Dun Leary on 18 November 1807, but by the next day it had to return due to a very bad snow storm. As the ship tried to return to the harbour, it struck rocks at Seapoint and sank drowning all 120 soldiers on board, who were members of the

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. That same night the ''Rochdale'' also sank where 265 people perished. Most of them are interred in Carrickbrennan Churchyard with a similar memorial. Rev. Blacker, B. (1860–1872). "Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown", p. 52 There are not many memorials to be seen here and the oldest one is dated 1692. On 1 May 1866 the graveyard closed and in 1978 the graveyard became a public park under the care of

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