Merrion Cemetery, Bellevue

Merrion Cemetery, Bellevue (Irish: Reilig Mhuirfean) is a cemetery located on Bellevue Avenue off the Merrion Road in Dublin, Ireland a short distance to the north west of Booterstown.

Since 1978 it has been used as a public park under the care of Dublin City Council 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.

[1] 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 18th Regiment of Foot.

Tombstone to the 120 soldiers who died in the shipwreck of HM Packet Ship Prince of Wales along the coast in 1807