Famine Graveyard – Mullingar’s Pauper Burial Ground

Despite being one of the oldest burial grounds in Mullingar, the Famine Graveyard is one of the least known. That has now been rectified as historian Seamus O’Brien has gathered together all the sources to describe the opening of the graveyard in 1849 and its subsequent history as a paupers burial plot.

Ignored and neglected for a century, the graveyard has been renovated and restored over the last few decades. It has, in the interim, attracted the attention of artists such as Nuala Gorman, Mary J McCormack and Lorna Farrell, all of whose work features in this publication, which is richly illustrated throughout.

All proceeds go towards the care and upkeep of Mullingar’s Famine Graveyard.