- Eleven-year-old Michael Carey was the first person to be buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, the most famous place to be laid to rest in Ireland.
- Glasnevin Cemetery: In this cemetery are the graves of many men and women who have paved the way through Irish history.
- 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)...
- 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.
- 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 opened in 1832 as a non-denominational graveyard — the first of its kind in Ireland — and is the last resting place of some 1.5million people.
- History of Glasnevin Cemetery. The cemetery was founded in the 19th century: at that point, under British rule, Irish Catholics had nowhere to bury their dead.
- A truly devoted admirer known as ‘The Yank’ regularly arranges for floral tributes to be left at the grave of Michael Collins in Glasnevin Cemetery.
- Services are being live streamed from our Glasnevin Cemetery Chapel. Streaming may start later or earlier than scheduled based on when the service arrives in...
- Glasnevin is the largest non-denominational cemetery in Ireland and its estimated that there are 1.5 million people buried there.