Goldenbridge

[annieoburns]

It is a few years since I visited on my own.  The main Glasnevin office gave me a mobile no for the caretaker who also lives in a small house near the gate.  He was there as arranged and helped me look around. You might check that this arrangement still stands.  Again perhaps the main office would know of any group tours?  I think one of the Dublin historical walking tours included it in one of their weekly walks.

It is not an easy place to find a grave unless near the perimeter walls that have markers and even these are barely legible but at least follow a sequence as earlier posted described.

The gravestone I am interested in is face down on the ground.   I had no reply from an email to Glasnevin as to what to do about that.  I hope to visit again in June when american distant cousin is in town.

[DudleyWinchurch]

Thanks for the quick response annieoburns,

The grave I am looking for must be one of the earliest, first used in 1830, although, there are a lot of people on the list and I am not sure if this is just one grave.  The list I was supplied with was printed all in upper case, giving the plot number AA 10.

On a register entry image for someone that I think is my family (O'Brien) it is also hand-written with both letters in upper-case, AA 10.

I'm not sure how that fits with the description given by colur, but imagine it must be near one of the boundaries.

I will contact Glasnevin again about this grave as I am beginning to suspect that they may have combined more than one plot record in the list.

[dermo]

DudleyWinchurch
I don't know if you are in Ireland, but if you are - or are planning to visit - it might be worth checking out Vol 1 of "Memorials of the Dead, Dublin City and County", mentioned by Annieoburns at reply 16 above.  As she said, it lists the gravestones in Goldenbridge that were legible in 1988 when the graveyard was surveyed.  The listing is arranged in alphabetical order by surname rather than by grave number.  Each entry does have an associated number but this is to facilitate locating the grave on a map of the graveyard in the book which plots the individual gravestones.  The numbering system is not that used in the graveyard itself, however.  The reason I suggest consulting the book is that it might save you a fruitless trip to Inchicore.  I have relatives buried in three graves in Goldenbridge but, when I looked at the book in the National Archives (it is available on the open shelves), none of the graves was listed, suggesting there were no gravestones or that any gravestone was illegible.  It may be parsimoniousness in my family but I was surprised to find that most of the ancestral graves in Glasnevin have no stones either.
With regard to the number of interments in the grave you are interested in, two of my famly's graves were bought in the early 1830s too and there are 14 interments in each of them.

[annieoburns]

Yes I have an 1832 grave with I think 6 people therein... some children and all related.  I discounted it as having no stone as not listed in the Memorials of the Dead volume dedicated to Goldenbridge.  I was delighted to find a substantial stone when I visited in person albeit laid face down so unreadable.   Using the memorials book I was able to identify this grave as the adjacant ones were recorded.

Looking at the location of your grave, you might be in luck.  It seems to be situated in the better area of the graveyard.  PM to me  and I will post you a map of same.

The Memorials of the Death are also available in Pearse Street Library research room which is open on Saturdays and some late evenings.  They are on open access and easily checked.  You can also pay a few cent and the staff will print off a page if of interest.

[DudleyWinchurch]

Hi dermo,

I'm not too far away so, as always, I'm planning my next visit. 

I will add the Memorials book to my look-ups list, but I'd also like to visit, as the best find so far at Glasnevin was a memorial on a grave that I was initially told was not a family grave and later told that in any case, because of it's location there would be no surviving memorial.  It connected up a family to the preceding generation.

Checking the list, there are 15 burials in the Goldenbridge plot, so it is possible that the earliest ones with a couple of different names are also related, but also possible that I have burials in AA 10 and aa 10 listed together, for instance.  I have already sent a message to Glasnevin asking them to check the plot number(s) for me, as the list was only provided, all in upper-case.  It's so annoying that they will not treat plots with more than 10 burials as a family grave even when several of them are known to be related. Although they did send the list after I queried it, I only have the few images that I purchased separately so know that the images I have show both letters upper-case but I don't have images for the ones that I don't recognise, to check how they were entered in the register.

On the whole, I have not been so lucky in finding memorials at Glasnevin, in spite of a, now very substantial, list of family graves.  I also have at least one grave with several family members at Mount Jerome, but the day that I went there was bitterly cold and the cemetery was quite busy with funerals so, after having waited to get some information, I decided not to try a search but leave it to come back to.