Conway Mill Trust

Friar’s Bush cemetery in Belfast, now closed, has a grisly history.  During the plague in 1832 thousands of bodies were burnt and thrown into a pit.  This pit was also the resting place of victims of the Great Hunger.  Stories are told of servant girls, afraid of scandal, threw their babies, dead and alive, over the wall at night.  It gets its name from Penal times when a friar was hung from the tree under which he was saying Mass.