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Ballybough Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Ballybough, Dublin. Founded in 1718, it is Ireland's oldest Jewish cemetery. On 28 October 1718, Alexander Felix (David Penso), Jacob Do Porto, and David Machado Do Sequeira, on behalf of the Ashkenazim, leased from Captain Chichester Phillips of Drumcondra Castle (an MP in the Irish Parliament)〔(History of the Jewish Cemetery ) Fairview Marino History〕 a plot of land on which the graveyard was subsequently built.〔Ball: The Parish of Clonturk - Drumcondra, with Notice of Marino and its Vicinity〕 In the 1700s, a small number of Jews had settled in the Annadale area off Ellis Avenue (what is now Philipsburg Avenue), Fairview; most of these marrano Jews came from Spain and Portugal (with some coming from the Netherlands), escaping the Inquisition.〔〔http://www.eoinobrien.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/from-the-waters-of-sionjrcps1981.pdf From the waters of sion to Liffeyside, Jewish contribution to medical and culture, Eoin O'Brien〕 A mortuary chapel was added in 1857 (inscribed on the front is "Built in the Year 5618", following the Hebrew Calendar).〔(''5619 The Jewish Cemetery on Fairview Strand'' ), by Diarmuid G. Hiney, Dublin Historical Record, Vol. 50, No. 2, Autumn, 1997.〕 The cemetery itself contains more than 200 graves,〔''The Jewish cemetery at Ballybough in Dublin'' by Bernard Shillman, Paper read before the Jewish Historical Society of England, July 6, 1925〕 the last burial there having taken place in 1958.〔(Ballybough Cemetery, Fairview ) Jewish Ireland Website〕 Most of Dublin's Jewish community would be buried in Dolphins Barn cemetery now. Close by is another grave plot (sometimes called Ballybough Cemetery), locally called the "suicide plot", which was used for suicide victims, robbers and highwaymen, through whose corpses' hearts wooden stakes were driven;〔 this is the graveyard that the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker, who lived nearby, used to visit when he was young, and which influenced his novel.〔 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ballybough Cemetery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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