Kilcruttin Cemetery in Tullamore, County Offaly

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Coordinates: 53.27186, -7.49892
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"Kilcruttin cemetery is located off Cormac Street, inside the Lloyd town park, and close to the boundaries of what is now Scoil Mhuire. Indeed, the original access lane and entrance to this cemetery is still to be seen. It's the oldest cemetery in Tullamore town and dates back to the 1700s. At one time it was on the outskirts of the town and in soft poor ground close to the Tullamore river. It was not the cemetery of choice for the upper ten in Tullamore, but nonetheless has some very good monuments including that to the Methodist merchant Burgess and the German baron Oldershausen of the King's German Legion, the heroes of Waterloo.

Kilcruttin was also used for the burial of the poor of whatever religion and as the burial place of those who died in the public institutions (except by execution) and is particularly associated with the victims of the Famine who were brought from the workhouse through the town for burial at Kilcruttin.

1,000 paupers buried there, 1848-52. Kilcruttin cemetery was officially closed in 1892."

Source: https://offalyhistoryblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/kilcruttin-cemetery-tullamore-no-1-in-a-cemetery-series-michael-byrne/