Written in Stone: Buried in Deansgrange Cemetery

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2 жыл бұрын

This video illustrates the final resting places of a number of notables, including:
- Count John McCormack;
- John Boyd Dunlop;
- Dr Augustine Henry;
- Sean Lemass;
- Dermot Morgan;
- Delia Murphy;
- Dr. Kathleen Lynn;
- Capt. James Vaughan;
And highlights how their lives impacted history.
Visiting the Cemetery
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council manages the cemetery and offers informative and engaging tours during the summer months. When you visit be sure to drop into the pleasant cafe just inside the main entrance and enjoy delicious home-made cakes.
More Information
'Deansgrange Cemetery: Stories from Beyond the Grave' by James Moran is an excellent source of information. It may be out of print but your local library may have a copy.
Music
Information to be provided soon.

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@joanaustin121 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful presentation, thank you. Many of my Halpin family are buried in Deansgrange and I discovered several in an unmarked grave when I visited in 2012. My cousin and I paid the groundskeeper to mark off the grave and place a small marker on it when I visited at a later date. It's sad that many portions of the cemetery are not as well kept as we see in this presentation. It also saddens me how the Catholic Church treated babies who died without being baptised. Little did the Church know those little ones were beholding the face of God after passing from this life into eternity.

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

The cemetery is normally very well maintained but cemetery administrators now have the daunting new challenge of controlling the rapidly spreading, deep-rooted weed know as 'mare's tail' or 'horseweed'. They are in the process of trying to eradicate the weed but need to do so with caution as attempting to pull it out causes it to grow faster and careful use of weed-killer is required to protect people and the environment.

@joanaustin121 2 жыл бұрын

@@DrDavidOwens Perhaps things have changed since my cousins visited and could barely find our relative's grave it was so overgrown due to absolutel neglect. We are aware family members are responsible for the grave itself but to have to trudge ones way through to get to it is of concern. I appreciate your response nonetheless and your superb presentation of Deansgrange. x

@markalexwhite Жыл бұрын

My grandfather - the last surviving member of the DMP (Dublin Metropolitan Police) is buried in Deansgrange 🙂

@enidowens5719 2 жыл бұрын

I think I like this presentation best out of David Owens’ cemetery video series. It’s full of the most interesting people about whom we might have known nothing. The need for an Angels Plot brings shame to the Catholic Church. Well done.

@pipersson39 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for thia presentation. My father's parents are buried there together with my grandmother's mother. I have not been back since my grandmother's funeral.

@patrickmoore3717 2 жыл бұрын

The glorney mausoleum used to have part of the wing of his plane inside the doors

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the interesting info. I did not know that.

@mterrylane819 8 ай бұрын

Just had to say how well presented these video s are, so informative,

@DrDavidOwens 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind compliment.

@michaeld.5699 7 ай бұрын

May the rest in peace 🙏

@gerrycadwell4161 2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed that very informative and a lovely speaking voice

@bahoonies Жыл бұрын

@David Owens Great video thanks. I actually spotted the grave of my great grandparents near the main entrance from one of the drone passes. It was nice to see the memorial stone for Joseph Woodall. I was privilleged to know him though I was only 9 years old when he died. His stone does not mark his actual grave though. He is is buried in the family plot of the parents of children I was friends with back then. Mr Woodall was living with the family who, I understand, took care of his funeral following a fall in his room which caused his death. I should also mention in relation to Hermann Görtz that Dr. Richard Hayes, the remarkable man who found and broke the codes the German spy was carrying is also buried in Deansgrange. His extraordinary achievements helped to shorten WW2.

@DrDavidOwens Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the additional information. Pleased that you noticed the grave of your great grandfather.

@bahoonies Жыл бұрын

@@DrDavidOwens You're most welcome. I've subscribed to your channel.

@irelandmyisland Жыл бұрын

Amazing and brillliant stories.

@DrDavidOwens Жыл бұрын

Yes, cemeteries are massively interesting places. I seem to spend a lot of time in them!

@irelandmyisland Жыл бұрын

@@DrDavidOwens yes I've been told I'll be found in one lol.

@kayjohayden 2 жыл бұрын

So lovely to see Delia Murphy get a mention here. She was wonderful

@Belvie27 8 ай бұрын

You re brilliant

@jeannehecksher-doyle2773 2 жыл бұрын

This is a very informative video, beautifully presented and orated. Many thanks. Just one question, why is the graveyard in such disrepair...not even the paths are swept, collapsed graves, pallets strewn about and trees overtaking graves....such a lack of dignity for the departed and their living relatives.......

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

As with all large cemeteries, it is a constant struggle to prevent weeds from smothering extensive grounds and restoring the ever-growing number of monuments as they are weathered by wind and rain and sometimes damaged by vandals. More recently, cemetery administrators have the daunting new challenge of controlling the rapidly spreading, deep-rooted weed know as 'mare's tail' or 'horseweed'. They are in the process of eradicating the weed which is difficult as pulling it out causes it to grow faster and weed-killer has to be used with caution to protect people and the environment. And, of course, Covid-19 temporarily disrupted maintenance activities.

@DrDavidOwens Жыл бұрын

At the time of recording the cemetery was faced with an invasion of a rapidly encroaching weed. I visited the cemetery recently and the administrators have done an excellent job of tackling the weeds.

@bahoonies Жыл бұрын

@@DrDavidOwens The issue of the weeds was raised on Liveline sometime back. There was also talk of starting a Friends of Deansgrange cemetery group with the idea of people adopting graves and keeping them free of weeds. I would have been delighted to join the group as I always tidy up a few graves when I visit the resting places of family and friends in Deansgrange. Sadly nothing has come of the group idea to date.

@markdooley2715 2 жыл бұрын

Great video very informative thankyou 🇮🇪☘💚

@GraveVisitations 2 жыл бұрын

Hi David I video graveyards and cemeteries in Ireland nice and interesting video 🇮🇪👍

@suzannehaimes6874 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent , Thank you

@marymcguffin9370 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. New subscriber. Really enjoy your history lesson.great job.

@DrDavidOwens Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind compliments. We enjoy making these type of videos and it's especially pleasing when someone else like them too.

@gaylechadwick-ripley6881 2 жыл бұрын

I came across your channel subscribed and hit the bell button looking forward to watching more videos, thank you for some very fascinating facts about the graves at Dublin I will be sure to check out the cemetery when we next travel across the water to Ireland x

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for subscribing. I have published several KZfaq videos about cemeteries in Dublin, London and Argentina. The most amazing burial ground I have visited and recorded is 'Recoleta Cemetery: Argentina's City of the Dead' in Buenos Aires. David

@joelyons886 2 жыл бұрын

and to think i never took the time to stop and look at the names when racing about the cemetery on my chopper before heading back to Kill Abbey Thanks for this amazing insight in to the stories behind them graves.

@davidryan6616 2 жыл бұрын

Great Work very much appreciated.

@clifforddiego6628 11 ай бұрын

MY GRANDPARENTS EUSIBO AND EMILIA DIEGO ARE BURIED THERE, ALSO THERE ELDEST DAUGHTER ABERLINA ( NEENA ) AND HER HUSBAND SYDNEY JAMES. I HOPE TO VISIT IN THE NEAR FUTURE WISH I HAD A PHOTO OF THE GRAVES

@GraveVisitations 2 жыл бұрын

Fanny and Florence Musgrave also drowned aboard RMS leinster. They are buried in affane old graveyard. I have done a video on this grave

@iersejounge 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up just a stone throw away and never went in.

@calvinwade2751 Жыл бұрын

What's that music.. haunting

@DrDavidOwens Жыл бұрын

The video has several different music elements. Where in the video is the music you are enquiring about?

@calvinwade2751 Жыл бұрын

@@DrDavidOwens the first one

@markrenehan4360 2 жыл бұрын

U forgot arthur shields and William j shields aka barry Fitzgerald but a very enjoyable/ interesting documentary 👍

@DrDavidOwens 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately we did not have time to list of the lifeboat men who drowned in the Palme tragedy. However, a few years I worked with Cormac Louth to make a video dedicated to the Palme tragedy. It's titled 'The Lifeboat and Palme Tragedy of 1895' and it's onKZfaq.. Cut and paste this to go directly to it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hcmDpbWDu9_YhZ8.html

@2Hearts3 5 ай бұрын

That division of religions is typical here in America, as well.

@boombasett6038 Жыл бұрын

@8:14 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Unfortunately, you don't have to be dead to be "ROTTEN RICH ". The wealthy got that way through slavery or the backbreaking work of others. Continues to this day!