Sous-série 6 - St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork

1 file; 20 pp; Manuscript, typescript, newspaper cutting and printed

The subseries includes research on St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork. In February 1830 Fr. Mathew secured a lease of the Botanic Gardens which became the city’s first Catholic cemetery. A portion of the ground was also set aside for the free burial of the poor, whose bodies had previously been left outside their dwellings until sufficient money was collected for their internment.