O'Connell Circle — Glasnevin Cemetery

Multiple-bay vault and landscaped cemetery feature, built c. 1840. Circular street of vaults accessed by sunken channel; linear street sunken to centre; surface laid out with funerary monuments in concentric circles. Vault walling in roughly-hewn squared uncoursed limestone with cement ribbon pointing. Series of square-headed entrances having brown brick jambs and granite lintels inscribed with family names, four-panel cast-iron doors with circular ventilation openings and fixed numerical identifiers, some with additional plaques. Main circle accessed at north and south by stone bridge crossing to central section, having steps to sunken channel at either side. Bridge parapets of ashlar granite having moulded granite copings, curved to square-plan stone piers; granite flagged deck and flooring to central vault. Central vaults accessed by flights of fifteen granite steps at each end. Earth and pea gravel flooring to outer channel. Circle has wide granite perimeter coping supporting funerary monuments over each vault. Grassed inner circle, planted with yew trees and variety of funerary monuments.