Plan launched to restore cemetery

The Minister of State for Local Development, Mr Gay Mitchell, has inaugurated a restoration plan for Mount Jerome Cemetery in…

The Minister of State for Local Development, Mr Gay Mitchell, has inaugurated a restoration plan for Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin, the burial place of Thomas Davis, Patrick Kavanagh, J.M. Synge, George Russell (AE) and George Petrie.

The planned restoration will include a heritage trail and will commemorate those buried in south Dublin's main cemetery in Harold's Cross.

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