Firefly Estate

The Firefly Estate, located 10 km (6 mi) east of Oracabessa, Jamaica, was the Caribbean home of Sir Noël Coward and is the site of his grave.

Noël Coward's mountaintop Jamaican home and burial site was originally owned by the pirate and one-time governor of Jamaica, Sir Henry Morgan (1635-1688).

[3] Named for the luminous insects seen in the warm evenings, Coward bought the Firefly estate in the late 1950s, having previously lived in Bermuda.

He entertained a wide range of guests at Firefly, including both the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, Laurence Olivier, Sophia Loren, Marlene Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, and neighbours Errol Flynn, Ruth Bryan Owen and Ian Fleming.

Coward died of myocardial infarction at Firefly on 26 March 1973, aged 73, and is buried under a marble slab in the garden, near the spot where he would sit at dusk watching the sun set as he sipped his brandy with ginger ale chaser and looked out to sea and along the coast spread out beneath him.

A statue of Noël Coward overlooking the Caribbean from Firefly