Survey Data
Reg No
60230103
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Graveyard/cemetery
In Use As
Graveyard/cemetery
Date
1860 - 1870
Coordinates
322281, 227187
Date Recorded
28/11/2016
Date Updated
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Description
Cemetery, designed 1861; consecrated 1864; opened 1865. Extended, 1895. Set in landscaped grounds with tuck pointed coursed rubble granite boundary wall to perimeter having cut-granite rounded coping supporting wrought iron railings.
Appraisal
A cemetery opened on a site purchased (1861) from Reverend John Beatty (1796-1878) representing an important component of the ecclesiastical heritage of south County Dublin: meanwhile, a monument commemorates the consecration of ground (1902) by Reverend Nicholas Donnelly (1837-1920), Titular Bishop of Canea (fl. 1883-1920). NOTE: Among the noted burials are casualties of the First World War (1914-8) with standardised headstones commemorating Private Alfred Ellis (d. 1916) of the 5th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers; Colonel Arthur Walter Patrick Inman (d. 1920) of the Royal Army Medical Corps; Private William Lang (d. 1916) of the "Sherwood Foresters" Notts And Derry Regiment; Deck Hand George Crow Lugton (d. 1916) of H.M.S. "Boadicea II"; Private Charles Saunders (d. 1916) of the South Staffordshire Regiment; Wireless Telegraphist Edward George Stevens (d. 1918) of H.M.S. "Boadicea II"; Corporal Joseph Valentine Tierney (d. 1916) of the Royal Engineers; and Assistant Cook Walter Wright (d. 1918) of H.M. Yacht "Helga"; casualties of the 1916 Rising including Lieutenant Sean Costello (d. 1916) and Óglach Andrew Cunningham (d. 1916); Kathleen Florence Lynn (1874-1955), Chief Medical Officer at the City Hall Garrison during the 1916 Rising; na Taoisigh John A. Costello (1891-1976) and Seán Lemass (1899-1971); the internationally-renowned tenor "Count" John McCormack (1884-1945); the writer Frank O'Connor (né Michael Francis O'Donovan) (1903-66); and Ernest Walton (1903-95), physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1951).