Friar’s Bush Graveyard 

Stranmillis Road

Friars Bush is located adjacent to the Ulster Museum, Friars Bush is reputed to be one of the oldest cemeteries in Ireland.  Dating back to the fourteenth/fifteenth century, both the cemetery and the website, at www.friarsbush.org are well worth a visit. 

In that era, Friars Bush was a renowned Mass Station in Penal Times to which the friar would be smuggled across the River Lagan and the heavily wooded area surrounding to say mass beside the thorn bush.