Crosstown / St. Ibar's Cemetery - Detail of Section Q

[Wexflyer]

Detailed scan of Section Q.

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Hi Wexflyer - Thanks for posting this plan.

I've recently been trying to locate plot No 107 in respect of a Mr & Mrs Connors, an elderly couple murdered in their small thatched cottage in March 1905. My Great Great Grandmother, Mary Flood (75) was buried in plot No 178 on the same day as the couple were buried  - 14th March.

I was working from plot 178 & other plots that still had their markers but was baffled that when counting down the row I was coming across markers who's names didn't match the details in the burial register.  I now see from the diagram that Plot No 348 (between 110 & 111) and plot 91 (between 117 & 118) was putting a spoke in the works!!

The cottage in which the couple lived was right on the Newtown Rd almost opposite the driveway leading to 'Bettyville House' (located in the centre of what is now Wexford racecourse) and became known as the 'Bettyville' murders.  The case was quite sensational and hence covered in the newspapers across the Nation.     

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Re previous post - some attachments.

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You don't know how many times I walked past where those murders occurred as a child, on a circuit around Coolcots Lane, to Newtown Road, and back to Wigram.

And don't blame the odd numbering in Section Q on my great-grandfather - before his time!