Bully's Acre

In 1832 there was a serious outbreak of cholera in Dublin and some of the victims were buried here in the ancient graveyard called Bully's Acre. In fact they were the very last people to be buried here. Nobody felt much like doing any more digging in case they caused the disease to break out again so that was the end of the site as a place of burial. All told the graveyard had been in use for about a thousand years and saw the arrival and departure of the Vikings in its time. For some time after the reformation it became a popular Roman Catholic place of burial as Catholic funerals were banned everywhere else. Bully's Acre was common land, so the new laws didn't apply there and Catholics were free to use it.
The sun shone beautifully as we walked past today on our way from Kilmainham Jail where the leaders of the 1916 Rising against British Rule were executed and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.