St. Mary's Church, Bellaghy

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St. Mary's Church
St. Mary's Church
54°48′53.1″N 6°30′50.4″W / 54.814750°N 6.514000°W / 54.814750; -6.514000
Address25 Ballynease Rd, Bellaghy, Magherafelt BT45 8JS
CountryNorthern Ireland
DenominationRoman Catholic
Websitebellaghyparish.com
History
StatusParish church
Administration
ParishBellaghy–Ballyscullion Parish

St. Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is the final resting place of Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Seamus Heaney.[1][2] It is also the place where IRA hunger-strikers Francis Hughes and Thomas McElwee are buried.[3][4]

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