Mount Jerome Cemetery
The Mount Jerome Cemetery ( Irish Reilig Chnocán Iaróm ) is a cemetery in Dublin , Ireland . It was created in 1836 for the city's Protestants . Catholics have also been buried here since 1920.
The neo-Gothic church at the cemetery was designed by William Atkins in 1845.
Famous pepole
Over 300,000 people are buried in the cemetery, including well-known writers, artists and merchants. Some well-known personalities buried in the cemetery are:
- John Kells Ingram , Irish poet, economist, historian, patriot
- Thomas Davis , poet and patriot
- Some members of the Guinness family
- William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), mathematician
- John Millington Synge (1871-1909), writer
- Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957), painter
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), writer, his wife Susanna and his father-in-law
- William Wilde and Jane Francesca Elgee , parents of Oscar Wilde
- George Russell (1867–1935), poet, editor, painter, journalist
- George Petrie (1790–1866), archaeologist, musician and painter
- Peter Caffrey (1949–2008), actor (Ballykissangel)
- John Hewitt Jellett (1817–1888), Provost of Trinity College
- Edward Bunting (1773-1843), musician
- William Carleton (1794-1869), writer
- Benjamin Guinness (1798–1868), brewer and philanthropist
- Sarah Purser (1848–1943), painter
- Walter Osborne (1859–1903), painter
- Thomas Grubb (1800–1878), optician
- Thomas Caulfield Irwin (1823-1892), poet, writer
- James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy (1851–1931), politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
- Martin Cahill (1949–1994), "The General", Dublin's most famous gangster, killed by the IRA
supporting documents
- ^ Peter Somerville-Large: Dublin: The First Thousand Years . The Appletree Press, Belfast 1988, pp. 226, ISBN 0862812062 .
Web links
- Mount Jerome Cemetery & Crematorium (English)
- The cemetery at archiseek (English)
- Description at goireland.about.com (English)
Coordinates: 53 ° 19 ′ 32 " N , 6 ° 17 ′ 3" W.