BENCHMARKS continued
Another little known Dublin burial ground - Grangegorman Military Cemetery is where these four are found. Anyone who doesn't know the exact location and planning a visit could be misguided by its name. It is in fact situated about a mile away from the Grangegorman area of Dublin. A helpful website gives this information “It is situated on Blackhorse Ave, off Navan Rd, facing the wall of the Phoenix Park, and just up the road from McKee Barracks.” So, have you got it now? The website adds more information “ This cemetery opened in 1786. In it are buried men who served in the British Forces and their wives and families. After 1923 only servicemen and their next of kin could be buried there.” (However another website gives the date of its opening as 1876.) Many of the servicemen who died when the mail boat The Leinster was torpedoed and sunk in Dublin Bay just a month before the end of World War One are buried here.
These two are on the base of the wall pillar at the south east corner.
Above: Blackhorse Avenue looking north. The 'marks can be seen on the base of the wall pillar at bottom right.
This pair are on the base of the wall pillar at the south west corner.
Above: Blackhorse Avenue looking south. The 'marks are at the base of the pillar at left. The pavement is now set at a level that partly conceals them.