Jonathan Swift's grave at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin

His epitaph is written on the plaque above the door, in Latin.

As was common with writers, he wrote his own epitaph.  The translation is below, along with verse from W.B.Yeats and Alexander Pope.  I enjoyed seeing all of this since I concentrated on 18th Century English Literature in obtaining my BA in English.  I had a fondness for Pope and Swift!

The information below includes two lines from Swift's poem, "Verses on the Death Dr. Swift" but my favorite lines from that poem are the following:

He gave the little wealth he had,

To build a house for fools and mad:

And showed with one satiric touch,

No nation wanted it so much:

That kingdom he hath left his debtor,

I wish it soon may have a better.

Swift did actually donate money dedicated to building a hospital for the mentally ill.  The hospital was St. Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles (now just called St. Patrick's Hospital) and it was built beside Dr. Steeven's Hospital as Swift had requested, given his belief that physical and mental well-being were connected.  Swift himself was declared to be of unsound mind in his later years.  The hospital was one of the first psychiatric hospitals in the world.