Crosses at Glasnevin Cemetery

Prospect Cemetery is located in Glasnevin, although better known as Glasnevin Cemetery, the most historically notable burial place in the country and the last resting place, among a host of historical figures, of Michael Collins, Eamon DeValera, Charles Stewart Parnell and also Arthur Griffith.

Arthur Griffith also was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.

* A History of Glasnevin from Glasnevin Cemetery

* Monuments in Glasnevin Cemetery

Category: Burials at Glasnevin Cemetery

Glasnevin Cemetery ( The round tower in the centre stands over the tomb of Daniel O ' Connell )

Glasnevin Cemetery (), officially known as Prospect Cemetery, is the largest non-denominational cemetery in Ireland with an estimated 1. 5 million burials.

Prior to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish Catholics had no cemeteries of their own in which to bury their dead and, as the repressive Penal Laws of the eighteenth century placed heavy restrictions on the public performance of Catholic services, it had become normal practice for Catholics to conduct a limited version of their own funeral services in Protestant cemeteries.

Glasnevin Cemetery was consecrated and opened to the public for the first time on 21 February 1832.

Glasnevin Cemetery remains under the care of the Dublin Cemeteries Committee.

Glasnevin Cemetery has grown from its original nine to over.

* Glasnevin Cemetery Official Site

* Burial Records from Glasnevin Cemetery Interment. net

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The parade would line up at St. Stephens Green and march all the way to Glasnevin Cemetery.

Daniel O ' Connell's tomb at Glasnevin Cemetery had a round tower built above it after his burial in 1847.

He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

Glasnevin (, also known as Glas Naedhe, meaning " stream of O ' Naeidhe " after an ancient chieftain ) is a largely residential neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland.

Glasnevin is part of the Dáil Éireann constituency of Dublin Central

St. Columba of Iona is thought to have studied under St. Mobhi, but left Glasnevin following an outbreak of plague and journeyed north to open the House at Derry.

There is a long street ( Iona Road ) in Glasnevin named in his honour.

By 1667 Glasnevin had expanded-but not by very much ; it is recorded as containing 24 houses.

Approaching Glasnevin via Phibsboro is what is known as Hart's Corner but which about a 200 years ago was called Glasmanogue, and was then a well-known stage on the way to Finglas.

The Gaelic games of Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and Gaelic handball are all organised locally by Na Fianna CLG, while soccer is played by local clubs Iona FC ( now defunct ), Tolka Rovers, Glasnevin FC and Glasnaion FC.

* Jonathan Swift once lived across the road from the Glasnevin Model School, which is now the Glasnevin Educate Together School.

Nearby city districts include Glasnevin and Ballymun while the village of St. Margaret's is a little to the north.

Today the Glasnevin site is the headquarters of the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland which has a satellite garden at Kilmcurragh in county Wicklow.

The soil at Glasnevin is strongly alkaline ( in horticultural terms ) and this restricts the cultivation of calcifuge plants such as rhododendrons to specially prepared areas.

It first opened in 1832, and is located in Glasnevin, Dublin.

The cemetery is located in Glasnevin, Dublin, in two parts.

Glasnevin is one of the few cemeteries that allowed stillborn babies to be buried in consecrated ground and contains an area called the Angels Plot.

State funeral corteges have often passed the GPO on their way to Glasnevin Cemetery, while today the street is used as the main route of the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, and as the setting for the 1916 Commemoration every Easter Sunday.

He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.

MacBride is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery among Irish patriots in a simple grave with his mother, wife, and son.

She died in Clonskeagh, aged 86 and is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

By 822 Glasnevin, along with Grangegorman and Clonken or Clonkene ( now known as Deansgrange ), had become the farm for Christ Church Cathedral and it seems to have maintained this connection up to the time of the Reformation.

Laurence O ' Toole, Archbishop of Dublin, took responsibility for Glasnevin.

The returns of the church for 1326 stated that 28 tenants resided in Glasnevin.

By now Glasnevin was an area for families of distinction-in spite of a comment attributed to the Protestant Archbishop King of Dublin that " when any couple had a mind to be wicked, they would retire to Glasnevin ".

In a letter, dated 1725 he described Glasnevin as " the receptacle for thieves and rogues.

The poet Thomas Tickell owned a house and small estate in Glasnevin and, in 1790, they were sold to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin Society for them to establish Ireland's first botanic gardens.

This was taking a great risk with his health, for Parnell was suffering from a serious kidney disease. Parnell's grave in the predominantly Catholic Church | Catholic Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, alongside Éamon de Valera, Michael Collins ( Irish leader ) | Michael Collins and Daniel O ' Connell.

After a funeral service in Westminster Cathedral his remains were interred, as requested in a manner characteristic of the man, in the family vault at the old Knights ' Templars ' chapel yard of Saint John's Cemetery, Wexford town, amongst his own people rather than in the traditional burial place for Irish statesmen and heroes in Glasnevin Cemetery.

The remains of 155 inmates who had been buried in unmarked graves on the property were exhumed and, except for one, cremated and reburied in a mass grave in Glasnevin Cemetery.

Although the public image of Ballymun has changed somewhat since the beginning of the Ballymun regeneration project in 1997, continuing social problems in Ballymun ensure it remains a remarkably different world to, for example, neighbouring Glasnevin.

Whether in haste after the greenhouse incident or not, Robinson left for Dublin in 1861, where the influence of David Moore, head of the botanical garden at Glasnevin, a family friend, helped him find work at the Botanical Gardens of Regent's Park, London, where he was given responsibility for the hardy herbaceous plants, specializing in British wildflowers.

They moved to a new home at Whitehall Farm, Glasnevin, in time for the start of the 1895 / 96 season but in those days, the area was out of the way and without public transport so the Bohemian committee continued to look for a new home ground.

In July 2008 she was not selected as the Green candidate for the 2009 local elections in the Cabra / Glasnevin area of the Dublin Central constituency.