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Hi Denis,

My Great-Grandmother and Grandfather knew your Grandmother well. They were in the Columcille Branch together and in Cummann Na mBan together. On Easter Monday our Grandmothers were stationed in the O'Dwyers Club, Skippers Alley opposite the Four Courts with first aid supplies & bringing ammunition along with my Grandmother to the Volunteers including my Great-Uncle Liam O'Carroll, & my Grandfather Larry Lawlor both of the the 1st Battalion Four Courts, A Company Dublin Brigade. My Great-Grandparents wrote letters to aid your Grandmother to get her military pension, along with my Great-Uncle & Great Aunt Annie O'Carroll. If you want to chat about it some more my email is audreyflanagan@me.com.

Your Grandmother lived at 28 Malachi Road, Manor Place, Dublin 7 when she applied for her pension.
Best regards,

Audrey

The file you are referring to states that Mary Byrne’s husband was called John Byrne and from reading her file it would appear she was already married when serving during the Rising as the file states she was cooking food for her husband.

The main cemeteries used for those killed in the Rising were Glasnevin, Deansgrange and Mount Jerome. He would only have been buried in Mount Gerome if he was protestant. He does not appear in the search on the Glasnevin website.  Deansgrange and Mount Jerome do not have search facilities on their websites so you would have to contact the cemetery. He may have been buried in Grangegorman but only if he had a strong military connection.

It is unlikely he was buried unidentified. In order for a burial to take place a certificate had to be obtained from the military, it had to be proved that the dead person was who it was claimed they were. Coffins were opened and searched as they entered the cemetery and only one person was allowed to accompany the coffin to the grave site.

It is also very unlikely he is buried anywhere other than Dublin, because of the large number of bodies there was a fear of diseases spreading and burials took place as soon as possible after identification. It is also unlikely he was buried in Dublin and then re-buried somewhere else at a later date, there was a government department called the Sanitation department from whom permission had to be granted before a re-burial could take place, as far as I know only one re-burial took place and that was one of the Rebels Thomas Allen who was buried in Glasnevin and then re-buried in Longwood Moyvally County Meath in 1917.

The Commonwealth website is searchable by area, if you put the name of your area in the Additional Information box at the bottom of the page it will return results. It helps to narrow the search if you add the County as well as the area. If you let me know the area you are looking for I might be able to suggest other places to search.
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx

You can apply to the Irish Military Archive (link below) for his service record, be sure to state you are related as some of the records are only available to next of kin. It takes a while, sometimes up to a year, to get the records so be prepared for a long wait.

http://www.military.ie/info-centre/military-archives