placenamesDeansgrange
Gráinseach an Déin
Graves record public achievement, medical service and a lifeboat disaster.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Gráinseach an Déin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Deansgrange · English · main form
Place & story
A cemetery opened in 1865
Deansgrange Cemetery opened in 1865. The council’s historical guide identifies its first burial as Anastasia Carey, a forty-one-year-old servant at Saint Joseph’s Orphanage, on 27 January 1865. Over subsequent decades the cemetery became the resting place of people associated with Irish public life, medicine, the arts and natural history. [2]
Lives remembered here
The graves include tenor John McCormack and doctor Kathleen Lynn, who helped establish Saint Ultan’s Hospital in 1919. A group of graves also commemorates the fifteen Kingstown lifeboatmen lost on Christmas Eve 1895 while attempting to assist the stricken SS Palme. The council’s guide places both celebrated careers and collective local loss within the cemetery’s history. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Deansgrange. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Graves of historical interest in Dean’s Grange Cemetery · Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-12-19. How this page was prepared.