Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium

The name of the cemetery comes from an estate established there by the Reverend Stephen Jerome, who in 1639 was vicar of St. Kevin's Parish. At that time, Harold's Cross was part of St. Kevin's Parish. In the latter half of the 17th century, the land passed into the ownership of the Earl of Meath, who in turn leased plots to prominent Dublin families. A house, Mount Jerome House, was constructed in one of these plots, and leased to John Keogh. In 1834, after an aborted attempt to set up a cemetery in the Phoenix Park, the General Cemetery Company of Dublin bought the Mount Jerome property, "for establishing a general cemetery in the neighbourhood of the city of Dublin".Igoe, Vivien. Dublin Burial Grounds & Graveyards. Wolfhound Press, 2001. p. 172

The Funerary Chapel in the cemetery was the first Puginian Gothic church in Dublin. It was designed by William Atkins.

The first official burial happened on 19 September 1836. The buried deceased were the infant twins of Matthew Pollock.

The cemetery initially started with a landmass of 26 acres and grew to a size of 48 acres in 1874.

In 1984, burial numbers were falling, thus the Cemetery was losing revenue and began to deteriorate. A crematorium was needed to regain revenue and deal with plant overgrowth on the estate.{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://www.mountjerome.ie/cemetery/history/|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Mount Jerome|language=en-GB}} In 2000, Mount Jerome Cemetery established its own crematorium on the site.

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Notable people buried here include:Langtry, Joe and Nikki Carter, eds. Mount Jerome: A Victorian Cemetery. Staybro Printing Ltd., Dublin 1997.{{Cite book|last=Boylan|first= Henry |year=1998|title=A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition|location=Dublin|publisher= Gill and MacMillan|isbn= 0717129454}}

• Robert Adams (1791–1875), physician and professor of surgery
• Maeve Binchy (1940–2012), author (cremated)
• Fritz Brase (1875–1940), German military musician and composer
• Edward Bunting (1773–1843), musician, music-collector
• Frederick William Burton (1816–1900), painter and director of the National Gallery
• Peter Caffrey (1949–2008), actor (cremated)
• Sir Charles Cameron (1830–1921), headed, for 50 years, the Public Health Department of Dublin Corporation (and two of his sons)
• James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy (1851–1931), lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• William Carleton (1794–1869), writer
• Thomas Caulfield Irwin (1823–1892), poet, writer, scholar
• Michael Colivet (1882–1955), Irish politician, Commandant of the Irish Volunteers for Limerick City, a founding member of the Irish Republic and, in later years, Chairman of the National Housing Board
• Abraham Colles (1773–1843), surgeon, professor of medicine
• Meg Connery (1881–1958), suffragist organiser and activist.{{Cite web |last=Conneely |first=Ailbhe |date=5 April 2024 |title=Headstone for suffragette Meg Connery to be unveiled in Dublin |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0405/1441743-meg-connery/}}
• John Augustus Conolly VC (1829–1888), soldier
• Paddy Daly (1888–1957), member of the IRA during the War of Independence and later Major-General in the Irish Army
• Achilles Daunt (1832–1878), preacher and homilist
• Derek Davis (1948–2015), broadcaster{{cite web|url=http://www.thejournal.ie/derek-davis-funeral-2-2110301-May2015/|title=Family pay tribute as Derek Davis laid to rest at Mount Jerome Cemetery|first=Aoife|last=Barry}}
• Thomas Davis, (1814–1845), journalist, politician, founder of The Nation newspaper
• Thomas Drummond (1797–1840), surveyor, Under-Secretary for Ireland
• Professor George Francis FitzGerald (1851–1901), physicist
• Ethel Kathleen French ({{nee}} Moore, 1871–1891), artist and illustrator, first wife of Percy French
• Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne (1837–1913), lawyer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• Robert Graves (1796–1853), professor of medicine and writer
• Robert Perceval Graves (1810–1893), biographer of William R. Hamilton
• Sir Richard John Griffith (1784–1878), geologist, mining engineer, chairman of the Board of Works, author of Griffith's Valuation
• Thomas Grubb (1800–1878), optician, telescope-maker
• Benjamin Guinness (1798–1868), brewer, philanthropist, and other members of the Guinness family
• George Halpin (1779–1854), civil engineer and lighthouse builder
• William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), mathematician and astronomer
• James Haughton (1795–1873), social reformer
• John Kells Ingram (1823–1907), politician, scholar, mathematician and poet ("The Memory of the Dead")
• John Hewitt Jellett (1817–1888), mathematician and Provost of Trinity College
• John Edward Jones (1806–1862), civil engineer and sculptor
• David Kelly (1929–2012), actor (cremated)
• John Mitchell Kemble (1807–1857), scholar
• Joseph Robinson Kirk (1821–1894), sculptor, who also executed the figure over the memorial of his father, Thomas
• Thomas Kirk (1781–1845), sculptor, who also designed the Butler mausoleum in this cemetery{{Cite book|last=Patao|first= Sofia|year=2000|title=Funeral Art and Architecture|location=Dublin|publisher= EEC|ISBN= 848156270X}}
• Thomas Hawkesworth Ledwich (1823–1858), surgeon and anatomist
• Thomas Langlois Lefroy (1776–1869), politician and judge
• Percy Ludgate (1883–1922), accountant mathematician and inventor; designer of the second analytical engine
• Jan Lukasiewicz (1878–1956), Polish philosopher, logician and mathematician
• David Marcus (1924–2009), Irish Jewish writer/editor
• Sir Henry Marsh (1770–1860), physician
• William Ramsay McNab (1844–1889), Scottish physician and botanist
• William Fetherstone Montgomery (1797–1859), obstetrician
• Arthur Thomas Moore VC (1830–1912), soldier
• Hans Garrett Moore VC (1830–1889), soldier

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• Sir Richard Morrison (1767–1849), architect (Pro-Cathedral, Trinity College)
• William Vitruvius Morrison (1794–1838), architect
• John Skipton Mulvany (1813–1870), architect who also designed a number of monuments in this cemetery, including the Mahony monument and Perry and West vaults
• Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970), Irish-language writer{{Citation|last=Reporter|title=Obituary|newspaper=The Irish Times|page=13|date=20 October 1970}}
• Máirtín Ó Direáin, (1910–1988), Irish-language poet
• Walter Osborne (1859–1903), artist
• William McFadden Orr (1866–1934), mathematician
• George Papworth (1781–1855), architect
• Basil Payne (1923–2012) poet
• Jacob Owen (1778–1870), architect and engineer to the Board of Works
• Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford (1902–1961) was an Irish peer, politician, and littérateur
• George Petrie (1790–1886), artist archaeologist, musician
• William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket (1828–1897), Archbishop of Dublin
• Sarah Purser (1848–1943), artist
• George Russell (1867–1935), writer and artist
• Cecil Sheridan (1910–1980), comedian and actorThe Irish Times, "Final tribute to Cecil Sheridan", 8 January 1980.
• Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), writer and editor (along with his wife, Susanna Bennett, her father and two brothers, in the same vault)
• Robert William Smith (1807–1873), pathologist
• Ellen Smyly (1815–1901), founder of the Smyly Homes
• Bindon Blood Stoney (1828–1909), engineer
• John Millington Synge (1871–1909), playwright
• Isaac Weld (1774–1856), topographical writer, explorer and artist
• William Wilde, father of Oscar Wilde. His wife, Jane Francesca Elgee, is commemorated on Sir William's monument, but she was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
• S. Allen Windle (1828–1880), Chaplain of the Mariners' Church, Dún LaoghaireIrish Times, Dublin, 29 January 1880.
• Edward Perceval Wright (1834–1910), ophthalmic surgeon, botanist and zoologist
• Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957), artist

There is a large plot dedicated to deceased members of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitan Police.

The cemetery contains the war graves of 35 British Commonwealth service personnel from World War I and 39 from World War II.[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/91214/MOUNT%20JEROME%20CEMETERY] CWGC Cemetery Report.

The remains of French Huguenots from St. Peter's Churchyard, Peter's Row (now the location of the Dublin YMCA), which was demolished in the 1980s, and from St. Brigid's and St. Thomas's churchyards are interred in the cemetery.{{cite web|url=http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=&County=Dublin&id=11502|title=St. Peter's Churchyard Excavation Report}}

Over 200 children of unmarried mothers who died in the Protestant run Bethany Home were buried in unmarked graves in the cemetery.[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0522/1224270894237.html Graves of Bethany children 'located at Mount Jerome' by Patsy McGarry] Irish Times, 21 May 2010 There is a plot where unnamed children from Kirwan House the Protestant run Female Orphan Home are buried.

Recent burials include the notorious Martin Cahill (1949–1994) (known as "The General"). His gravestone has been vandalised on numerous occasions and is currently broken in two with the top half missing. His body has since been removed to an unmarked grave in the cemetery. {{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}

The cemetery has one of only two Christ-thorn bushes in Ireland (the other is in the Botanic Gardens).

1. Then Mount Jerome for the protestants. Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute. Shovelling them under by the cartload doublequick. Thousands every hour. Too many in the world. Ulysses, Chapter 6, Hades episode, James Joyce.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100217034935/http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/harolds_cross/mountjerome.html Archiseek page on Mount Jerome Cemetery]
• [http://goireland.about.com/od/parksandgardens/gr/mount_jerome.htm goireland.about.com page describing Mount Jerome Cemetery]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110708093757/http://www.brianjshowers.com/articles_boneyard.html Article by Brian Showers on locating the burial place of the Le Fanu family]

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