The Old Galway Diary Podcast - Episode 253 - Arial Photos of Bohermore and Grealishtown

Yeah,

I got it online myself actually.

Yeah, of Bohermore, a British town and in the centre of it all is the Hat Factory.

And the nascent graveyard.

Exactly, yes.

And Yeah, the first thing you see actually is part of the new cemetery.

That's been there since 1880.

The outer walls were built there by a man called Thomas Nugent in 1880.

And actually, that part of the road was known for a while as Cemetery Hill, which I never knew.

Yeah, I only knew whatever was Greenwich Town.

Yeah, exactly.

And I agree, I'd be the

same.

I knew a woman called Margaret Dunn who used to collect the rents there.

Those houses along the corner in Greenwich Town.

Really? They were all privately owned and she used to collect the rents.

I don't know whether she owned them or not.

She used to collect the rents in them every week.

I remember, well,

Well, what we have to presume is it was a man called Grealish who built them.

So possibly it was from him.

Anyway, the cemetery opened in 1873 hoping to create a lot of space and to bring order into the question of internment and especially to give dignity to the deceased, the last resting place of many Galwegians.

But what's interesting about this photograph is, again, the blank spaces in the graveyard.

That's right.

Yeah, the headstones haven't quite reached the...