• Glasnevin Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Ireland and is located just north of Dublin city center. Founded in 1832, it was originally known as Prospect Cemetery.
  • Glasnevin Cemetery, Ireland's largest burial ground, covers 124 acres of glorious parkland where you can discover the legacies of Ireland’s heroes.
  • Learn about the leading key figures of Irish history buried at Glasnevin Cemetery. Visit Ireland's tallest round tower, and experience the O'Connell Crypt.
  • Dublin’s necropolis, Glasnevin Cemetery is a ‘must see’ for anyone visiting the city with a little time to spare.
  • You will learn about the sculpture, symbolism, architecture, art, sporting heroes, natural life and much more. Glasnevin Cemetery is considered an outdoor art gallery.
  • Glasnevin Cemetery was consecrated and opened to the public for the first time on 21st February 1832.
  • Glasnevin Cemetery Monument Works has been designing and creating headstones, monuments and memorials since 1974.
  • Famous activists, politicians, artists, writers, and thinkers all shaped the city as we know it today, and many of them are buried at Glasnevin Cemetery.
  • Do you want to learn more about Glasnevin (Or Prospect) Cemetery? Visit CWGC for its history, location maps, visitor information, and war dead casualty details.
  • Our proposal for the new Glasnevin Cemetery Chapel uses, as its conceptual basis, two key reference points: the work of poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)...