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Dublin Burial Grounds & Graveyards
Vivien Igoe

The burial grounds and graveyards of Dublin are a reservoir of Ireland’s extraordinary past - a fascinating treasury of history, biography, archaeology, and human interest.

Dublin is studded with graveyards, churchyards and cemeteries dating from early Christian period right up to those still in use at the beginning of the third millennium.

Though many of these burial grounds are still well known, the existence of others has passed from public awareness. Thousands of us walk past these sites every day or even unknowingly park our cars on them.

In Dublin Burial Grounds and Graveyards Vivien Igoe examines 72 sites of interment, situated in and around the capital, and provides a guide to their contents and locations. She also reveals many of the secrets of those often-forgotten places and gives a glimpse of the lives of some of those who lie within.