Gravestone Art and Other Historical Individuals & Families
St.Joseph’s Cemetery Tory Top Road, Turners Cross, Cork, T12 HW89
There are many fine monuments within the cemetery created by nationally recognised Cork sculptors and stone cutters such as:
• Seamus Murphy • John Hogan • Patrick Scannell
Several Cork Fenians, including James Mountain, are buried here and is the focal point for most of the Manchester Martyrs’ commemorations. The cemetery is the final resting place of many important Cork families and many historically famous people such as: • Suttons (Business and Merchant Sea) • Lyons (Business and Political life) • Maguires (Founders of the Cork Examiner) • Redmond John Barry (Lord Chancellor of Ireland) • Daniel Corkery (Writer and Politician) • Mary MacSwiney (Irish republican activist and teacher) • Paddy O’Flaherty , who gave his name to “Paddy”, the well-known brand of whiskey.
Text and images provided by Finbarr Barry.
Father Theobald Mathew (see A) Born in Thomastown, Cashel, Co. Tipperary on 10 October 1790, Fr Mathew was ordained a priest in the Capuchin Order in 1813. He arrived in the South Friary, Blackamoor Lane, Cork in 1814. He opened St Joseph’s Cemetery in 1830. Father Mathew joined the Cork Total Abstinence Society. He preached on temperance all over Ireland, many parts of England, and the USA. He was known as the “Apostle of Temperance”
Michael Deering (see D) Born in Limerick Michael Deering spent most of his adult life in Cork. In 1898 he became the fifth President of the GAA and was a founding member of the Cork County Board. He is the only President of the GAA to die in office. Kathy Barry (see E) Born Mary Catherine Barry on 16th August 1906. Her mother Mary ran an eating house on Dalton’s Avenue. Kathy took over the business when her mother died in 1947. It was a place where judges, labourers, students and retirees mixed freely. They had great nights singing and storytelling into the early hours of the morning with the odd fisticuffs breaking out to add to the entertainment. She also sold crubeens
Introduction
Est 1830 St Joseph’s Cemetery is a historic graveyard located at Tory Top Road on the Southside of Cork city.
Originally known as Lilliput, it began as a Botanic Gardens from 1809 to 1828. In 1830 Father Theobald Mathew opened it as a cemetery. Approximately 220,000 people are buried in the cemetery and there are 5540 Headstones & Monuments. Cork City Council took over control of the cemetery in 1947. The burial records for the cemetery are available online for burials from 1877-1917 at www.corkarchives.ie
Edward Mullhare (see B)
Born on Quaker Road in April 1923, and educated at Sullivan’s Quay School (Sully’s) Edward Mullhare studied Medicine in UCC until his acting career took off at age 19. In 1940’s he acted in London before starring in a number of American TV roles like “The Ghost and Mrs Muir” and “Knight Rider”. Famine Grave (see C ) The Great Famine was a disaster that hit Ireland between 1845 and about 1851, causing the deaths of about 1 million people and the flight or emigration of up to 2.5 million more over the course of about six years. There is a mass Famine Grave in St. Joseph’s cemetery with around 13,000 people buried here. When the Workhouse opened in St Finbarr’s Hospital in 1840 approximately 100 bodies a week were brought here to this spot and covered with lime and soil.
and cabbage plus pints of porter or cider and wine to her customers which is immortalised in the well know Cork song “Boys of Fairhill”
Sir James Charles Mathew (see F) Born in 1830 Sir James Charles Mathew was a nephew of Fr. Mathew. He was educated in Cork and later he was one of the first Catholics to study Law at Trinity College Dublin. He was called to the Bar in 1851 and was made a Judge in 1881. He became a Judge of the High Court in London and was instrumental in establishing the Chancery List (commercial and business court) which is still in use in the Courts today.
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