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Huguenot Cemetery — Merrion Row

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Huguenot Cemetery — Merrion Row
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Huguenot cemetery, founded 1693, in use to 1901, restored 1988. Cemetery contains burials of members of Dublin's Huguenot community, who arrived in seventeenth century. Memorials comprise slate plaques, stone gravestones and table stones. Burial plots bound by low box hedges to gravel paths. Bound to west and east by masonry walls of neighbouring buildings. Wall to west has slate memorial plaque listing names of those buried. Rear wall of rubble basalt, with round-headed doorway, flanked by columns in gabled surround of dressed stone and having timber battened door. Rendered plinth boundary wall with cut-granite chamfered coping supporting wrought iron railings. Pair of flanking gate screens including cut-granite panelled pilasters supporting cornice on frieze below plaque inscribed: "HUGHENOT [sic] CEMETERY 1693".

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