Glasnevin Cemetery - Pauper's Plot

[Alicat84]

I'll keep an eye on this thread til I get up next time Draigoch. I was up only two weeks ago. I plan on going back in the next few weeks so if no one else does it by then I'll have a look for you.

[Draigcoch]

Thank you so much Alicat84, It would mean so much to me.

[annieoburns]

Just reading over this thread....  I was at a talk recently on Glasnevin.  Those buried in the 'poor grounds' could be up to 15 interments deep.  The private plots could have up to 6 persons.  There were variations according to the topography They never turned away a burial on account of money.  Babies might be just left in the office to be buried later with others.  The wealthier subsidised the cost of the poorer ones and any profit left over went towards local schools and institutions.  In more recent years, profit went  towards acquiring land for new graveyards in the Dublin area. 

Meanwhile it was heartening to hear that they had kept the  records of every person buried there and in the earlier graveyard of Goldenbridge = up to 1.7 million records.... of which  800.000 are in unmarked plots or 'poor ground'.    It is one of the biggest cemeteries in terms of burials and covers 128 acres.

The records for 1832 to 1898 are presently being scanned and will go online next easter when the newly refurbished cemetery will be reopened.  It will have a museum and two new entrances including one from the Botanic gardens.

[kooky]

Thank you for the info about records up to 1898 being scanned. I am looking for my Great Grandparents Susan Boshell died 1882 and John Edward Boshell died 1887.
Kooky

[emmsthheight]

Hi Thank you again for telling us about the records being scanned.

Best wishes

Emms

[GOODDOG]

my grandfather is buried in  Glasnevin in a shared grave.

 could anybody tell me if there are the names of those who are buried there on the gravesite or just in the records office. i can't visit  until i am over there next year.

michael

[annieoburns]

I think you will only find details in the office.  Unless it is a private plot that was 'shared' and someone went to the trouble of enscribing a gravestone.  The term to describe group burial used by Glasnevin is "poor ground" rather than pauper's plot - a bit more dignity to be just poor rather than pauper.  I know of one of these areas in Glasnevin and it a large raised area of several acres of grass with no markings.  Another reason that people might have been buried in communal plots apart from poverty, was because of frequent epidemics such as smallpox.  Dublin had a poor public health record in Victorian times with poor housing stock and overcrowding.

[GOODDOG]

thank you Anne.

i only know he is interned with 9 other persons. so it looks like i will only see the area he is buried in unless they have opened it as a new grave.  i believe everything has rotted away after 100 years. i read this somewhere.

michael