Mount Jerome Cemetery & Crematorium () is situated in

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on the south side of

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, Ireland. Since its foundation in 1836, it has witnessed over 300,000 burials. Originally an exclusively

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cemetery,

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have also been buried there since the 1920s.

History

The name of the cemetery comes from an estate established there by the Reverend Stephen Jerome, who in 1639 was vicar of St. Kevin's Parish. At that time, Harold's Cross was part of St. Kevin's Parish. In the latter half of the 17th century, the land passed into the ownership of the

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, who in turn leased plots to prominent Dublin families. A house, Mount Jerome House, was constructed in one of these plots, and leased to John Keogh. In 1834, after an aborted attempt to set up a cemetery in the

Phoenix Park The Phoenix Park () is a large urban park in Dublin, Ireland, lying west of the city centre, north of the River Liffey. Its perimeter wall encloses of recreational space. It includes large areas of grassland and tree-lined avenues, and since ...

, the General Cemetery Company of Dublin bought the Mount Jerome property, "for establishing a general cemetery in the neighbourhood of the city of Dublin". The Funerary Chapel in the cemetery was the first Puginian Gothic church in Dublin. It was designed by William Atkins. The first official burial happened on 19 September

1836 Events January–March * January 1 — Hill Street Academy is named Colombo Academy and acquired by the Government, establishing the first public school in Sri Lanka. * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand ...

. The buried deceased were the infant twins of Matthew Pollock. The cemetery initially started with a landmass of 26 acres and grew to a size of 48 acres in

1874 Events January * January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx. * January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time. * January 3 – Third Carlist War: Battle of Caspe &n ...

. In 1984, burial numbers were falling, thus the Cemetery was losing revenue and began to deteriorate. A crematorium was needed to regain revenue and deal with plant overgrowth on the estate. In 2000, Mount Jerome Cemetery established its own

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on the site.

Notable burials

Notable people buried here include:Langtry, Joe and Nikki Carter, eds. Mount Jerome: A Victorian Cemetery. Staybro Printing Ltd., Dublin 1997. * Robert Adams (1791–1875), physician and professor of surgery *

Maeve Binchy Anne Maeve Binchy Snell (28 May 1939Born 1939 as per biography, ''Maeve Binchy'' by Piers Dudgeon, Thomas Dunne Books 2013; (hardcover), pp. 4, 280, 302; (ebook) – 30 July 2012) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, column ...

(1940–2012), author (cremated) * Fritz Brase (1875–1940), German military musician and composer *

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(1773–1843), musician, music-collector * Frederick William Burton (1816–1900), painter and director of the

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* Peter Caffrey (1949–2008), actor (cremated) * Sir Charles Cameron (1830–1921), headed, for 50 years, the Public Health Department of Dublin Corporation (and two of his sons) *

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(1794–1869), writer *

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and, in later years, Chairman of the National Housing Board *

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and later Major-General in the

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* Professor

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(1851–1901), physicist * Ethel Kathleen French ( Moore, 1871–1891), artist and illustrator, first wife of

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(1796–1853), professor of medicine and writer *

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(1810–1893), biographer of William R. Hamilton * Sir Richard John Griffith (1784–1878), geologist, mining engineer, chairman of the Board of Works, author of

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(1800–1878), optician, telescope-maker *

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family *

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(1821–1894), sculptor, who also executed the figure over the memorial of his father,

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(1776–1869), politician and judge *

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) *

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(1794–1838), architect *

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(1814–1873), writer and editor (along with his wife, Susanna Bennett, her father and two brothers, in the same vault) * Robert William Smith (1807–1873), pathologist * Ellen Smyly (1815–1901), founder of the Smyly Homes *

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(1828–1909), engineer *

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, father of

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. His wife, Jane Francesca Elgee, is commemorated on Sir William's monument, but she was buried in

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in London. * S. Allen Windle (1828–1880), Chaplain of the Mariners' Church, Dún Laoghaire *

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(1834–1910), ophthalmic surgeon, botanist and zoologist *

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(1871–1957), artist There is a large plot dedicated to deceased members of the

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and the

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. The cemetery contains the war graves of 35 British Commonwealth service personnel from

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and 39 from

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.
CWGC Cemetery Report. The remains of French

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from St. Peter's Churchyard, Peter's Row (now the location of the Dublin YMCA), which was demolished in the 1980s, and from St. Brigid's and St. Thomas's churchyards are interred in the cemetery. Over 200 children of unmarried mothers who died in the Protestant run

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were buried in unmarked graves in the cemetery.Graves of Bethany children 'located at Mount Jerome' by Patsy McGarry
Irish Times, 21 May 2010 There is a plot where unnamed children from Kirwan House the Protestant run Female Orphan Home are buried. Recent burials include the notorious

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(1949–1994) (known as "The General"). His gravestone has been vandalised on numerous occasions and is currently broken in two with the top half missing. His body has since been removed to an unmarked grave in the cemetery.

Flora

The cemetery has one of only two Christ-thorn bushes in Ireland (the other is in the

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Literary references

# ''Then Mount Jerome for the protestants. Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute. Shovelling them under by the cartload doublequick. Thousands every hour. Too many in the world.''

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, Chapter 6, ''Hades'' episode,

James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influentia ...

References

External links

Archiseek page on Mount Jerome Cemetery

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