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Ok.  Will look again next weekend.  She could be buried in the new part.

I should have explained about Esker.  There are actually 3 cemeteries there. 

The oldest one is derelict beside a ruined abbey church.  I know (because I have relatives buried there) that there were burials there until the 1920s or 1930s. 

The other two cemeteries are about quarter of a mile away and situated either side of the road.  The older of these two cemeteries dates from the late 19th century and had two sections, one for protestants and one for catholics.  The newest cemetery in Esker was opened in 1939.

I spoke today to a member of the family who were caretakers of the latter two cemeteries and he told me that it is unlikely your grandmother would have been buried in the oldest cemetery because by the 1950s burials there were prohibited even for people whose spouses were already buried there.  If the Local Council had made the same rule for the old cemetery in Palmerstown that could account for the reason your grandparents were not buried in the same grave.  There are quite a few people from Chapelizod and Palmerstown buried in Esker.

It might narrow down my search if you could ask your cousins whether there was a headstone on the grave?  Do they know whether she was buried in, possibly, a Graham family grave?  What is the likelihood that some of her surviving relatives would have had her name engraved on the tombstone?  It is quite a distance from St. Kevin's Hosp. to Esker Cemetery.  Could some of those relatives have lived in the surrounding area or, perhaps, was your grandmother originally from the area?