ST. BRIDGET'S HOSPITAL: LEPER BURIAL GROUND in East Ward Carrickfergus

Under East Ward Carrickfergus, lepers died alone and Bridget's name flew above the door like a promise kept. The hospital fed them, dressed their wounds and stopped asking whether their bodies still belonged to them. Burial followed without ceremony because ceremony belongs to the living. What is missing is not a gap, but the shape of the people who stopped being wanted.