Glasnevin’s First Graves
Glasnevin Cemetery, then commonly called Prospect Cemetery, opened on 21 February 1832. Its first burial followed on 22 February: Michael Carey, an eleven-year-old boy from Francis Street in Dublin. The new ground had been created by the Dublin Cemeteries Committee, an initiative closely associated with O’Connell. It grew from anger at restrictions upon Catholic funerary rites and from the lack of sufficient burial space at Goldenbridge, the committee’s earlier cemetery.