Mount Jerome Cemetery & Crematorium ( ga, Reilig Chnocán Iaróm) 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

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. In 1834, after an aborted attempt to set up a cemetery in the

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, 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 first official burial happened on the 19th of September

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. 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

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. In

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, 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. The Funerary Chapel in the cemetery was the first Puginian Gothic church in Dublin. It was designed by William Atkins. 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 *

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(1940–2012), author (cremated) *

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and later Major-General in the

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* Thomas Grubb (1800–1878), optician, telescope-maker * Benjamin Guinness (1798–1868), brewer, philanthropist, and other members of the

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family *

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(1817–1888), mathematician and Provost of Trinity College * John Edward Jones (1806–1862), civil engineer and sculptor * David Kelly (1929–2012), actor (cremated) *

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* Thomas Kirk (1781–1845), sculptor, who also designed the Butler mausoleum in this cemetery *

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(1807–1857), scholar * Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), writer and editor (along with his wife, Susanna Bennett, her father and two brothers, in the same vault) *

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(1823–1858), surgeon and anatomist *

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(1770–1860), physician * William Ramsay McNab (1844-1889), Scottish physician and botanist *

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) *

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(1794–1838), architect *

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Orders *

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, father of

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

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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 Kirwan House or The Female Orphan House was a Church of Ireland-run female orphanage initially at 42 Prussia Street (1790-93), next on Dublin's North Circular Road (1793-1959) and latterly at 134 Sandford Road in Ranelagh (1959-87). Since 19 ...

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,

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References

External links

Archiseek page on Mount Jerome Cemetery

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