St. Joseph's Cemetery, Cork, was established for the burials for the poor, by temperance campaigner

Father Mathew Theobald Mathew (10 October 1790 – 8 December 1856) was an Irish Catholic priest and teetotalist reformer, popularly known as Father Mathew. He was born at Thomastown, near Golden, County Tipperary, on 10 October 1790, to James Mathew and his ...

in 1830 when he leased land from the Botanical Gardens. It was sometimes called Father Mathew Cemetery. It was extended in 1880, and Fr. Mathew is buried in the cemetery. A large number of victims of the Irish Famine are buried on the site, many in unmarked graves. There are also 24 burials of those who died from the 1914-1918 war and 4 from the 1949-1945 war here, maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Cork Corporation took over the cemetery in 1968. The Society of African Missions Church (St. Joseph's) in Wilton, Cork, has a graveyard beside it confusingly also called St. Joseph's Cemetery. St. Joseph's Cemetery, Wilton, Cork
Society for African Missions. There are other cemeteries in Cork called St. Joseph's, among them St. Joseph's Cemetery Mallow, and St. Joseph's Cemetery Little Island.

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