Burial records

You can look up records using our burial record search facility. You can buy images of burial records that are over 75 years old for £1.50 each.

You can search for burial records in Belfast from 1869 onwards. Around 360,000 records are available from:

Belfast City Cemetery - records from 1869 (including the Jewish, public and Glenalina extension sections)
Roselawn Cemetery - records from 1954
Dundonald Cemetery - records from 1905.

You can use the search facility to view, where available, the following information about the deceased:

full name
age
last place of residence
sex
date of death
date of burial
cemetery they are interred in
grave section and number - you can now view who else is buried in a particular grave by clicking on the grave number contained in your search results
type of burial, for example, standard earth burial or cremation.

Search for a burial record

To use the search facility you need a surname, or part of a surname. You can narrow your results by providing a forename(s), initial or year of death or burial. If you aren't sure of the exact year of death or burial, enter the first three digits of the decade, for example, 198 - to only display records from the 1980s.

Other cemeteries

The search facility does not currently include burial records for the following cemeteries:

Balmoral Cemetery
Clifton Street Graveyard
Friar's Bush Graveyard
Knock Burial Ground
Shankill Graveyard.

If you are looking for records for these graveyards, call our Cemeteries and Crematorium Central Office on 028 9027 0296 or email cemeteries@belfastcity.gov.uk for further help and advice.

Please note that we do not look after, or hold records for, Milltown Cemetery or Knockbreda Cemetery. For more information, call Milltown Cemetery on 028 9061 3972 or Knockbreda Cemetery on 028 9049 4500.