Cabbage Garden Burial Ground
The Cabbage Garden (sometimes referred to in error as the Cabbage Patch) is a former burial ground off Upper Kevin Street in Dublin's south inner city. It lies at the junction of Cathedral Lane and Upper Kevin Street. The park entrance is at the end of Cathedral Lane opposite Cathedral Close.
'It was consecrated by Archbishop Margetson in 1668. It consisted of a plot of land which was set apart by the Dean and Chapter of
St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1666 for the purposes of a cemetery for the inhabitants of St. Patrick's Close and of the parish of St Nicholas Without, as their cemetery had become overcrowded.'
The later part of this plot (to the right as you enter the gate) was reserved for the burial of Huguenots, who worshipped in the Lady Chapel in the Cathedral. The name of the plot is said to come from 1649 when Oliver Cromwell leased the plot to plant cabbages on this spot to feed his troops. There again could it be because Dubliners couldn't pronounce Capuchin? Perhaps just an urban myth.
When this little graveyard off Kevin Street was dedicated in 1685 as a Huguenot graveyard the following prayer was said.
'Accept, we beseech Thee the small offering which we this day presumed to dedicate to the honour of Thy Holy Name, preserve it from
all human violations and barbarism that the bones of Thy servants which be gathered here may lie quiet and undisturbed.'
The burial ground was closed in 1858. In 1938 Dublin Corporation recorded the layout of the plot and it was converted into a public park in 1982 by Dublin City Council. The headstones were stacked around the perimeter, but it is believed that none of the burials were moved or re-interred.
In the French section, only seventeen stones were noted in 1938 and of these only seven family names were recorded. Among the many famous Huguenots buried in the French section is David Digues des Rompierés de La Touche who was one of the founders of the La Touche Bank and his son David de La Touche was buried here in 1785.
Memorials transcribed by June Bow & Karen Poff
July 2014
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Memorials
The Cabbage Garden (sometimes referred to in error as the Cabbage Patch) is a former burial ground off Upper Kevin Street in Dublin's south inner city. It lies at the junction of Cathedral Lane and Upper Kevin Street. The park entrance is at the end of Cathedral Lane opposite Cathedral Close.
'It was consecrated by Archbishop Margetson in 1668. It consisted of a plot of land which was set apart by the Dean and Chapter of
St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1666 for the purposes of a cemetery for the inhabitants of St. Patrick's Close and of the parish of St Nicholas Without, as their cemetery had become overcrowded.'
The later part of this plot (to the right as you enter the gate) was reserved for the burial of Huguenots, who worshipped in the Lady Chapel in the Cathedral. The name of the plot is said to come from 1649 when Oliver Cromwell leased the plot to plant cabbages on this spot to feed his troops. There again could it be because Dubliners couldn't pronounce Capuchin? Perhaps just an urban myth.
When this little graveyard off Kevin Street was dedicated in 1685 as a Huguenot graveyard the following prayer was said.
'Accept, we beseech Thee the small offering which we this day presumed to dedicate to the honour of Thy Holy Name, preserve it from
all human violations and barbarism that the bones of Thy servants which be gathered here may lie quiet and undisturbed.'
The burial ground was closed in 1858. In 1938 Dublin Corporation recorded the layout of the plot and it was converted into a public park in 1982 by Dublin City Council. The headstones were stacked around the perimeter, but it is believed that none of the burials were moved or re-interred.
In the French section, only seventeen stones were noted in 1938 and of these only seven family names were recorded. Among the many famous Huguenots buried in the French section is David Digues des Rompierés de La Touche who was one of the founders of the La Touche Bank and his son David de La Touche was buried here in 1785.
Memorials transcribed by June Bow & Karen Poff
July 2014
Further information
Memorials