Wolfe Tone Square (Dublin, Ireland)
Wolf Tone Square
Corner of Mary Street and Jervis Street, Dublin, Ireland
Desecrated Cemetery behind Church Bar (formerly St. Mary’s Church) that is now a City Park.
I walked through this park many times during my 2 week visit to Dublin … little did I know it was a grave yard. Formerly St. Mary’s Church, which is now the Church Bar Nightclub and restaurant, used to have a graveyard where this small city park now sits. St. Mary’s Parish was a large and wealthy church - as soon as the graveyard became overcrowded by the mid-nineteenth century - that “in order to make room for others, bodies were taken up in absolute state of putrefaction, to the great and dangerous annoyance of the vicinity”. The Churchyard eventually became a playground by the 1940′s and the tombstones were just piled against the wall. The Church of Ireland sold the graveyard in 1966 to the Dublin Corporation who converted it to the current “Wolfe Tone Memorial Park” and they moved the headstones around the perimeter. The park has never been successful except as a drinking spot for the youth. Ghost hunters and sensitives claim the land is haunting and much unrest is here, with reports of spirits wandering around during the day and night as well as many lured into suicides upon what is known as hanging trees. A revisit in 2012 saw a hauntingly empty carnival perched atop the remnants of graves no longer held sacred or respected as tires rest against the etchings.
A visit in March 2012 provided more intrigue as the city just allows a carnival to park atop the grave stones and setup right atop the old church yard providing more lack of reverence for the dead.
Current Mood: distressed
Originally published at Technogypsie.com Reviews