Portrane Asylum cemetery, Co. Dublin Jul2021

A first look at the chequer board pattern of the single graves in Portrane Asylum cemetery. A grave space consists of the grave shaft and banks to the side and head & foot of the grave. The banks are the undug ground and the use of burial rows forms a corrugated effect within the cemetery.
This isn't a Famine related burial ground but there are lessons to be learned from these 20th century burial practices which will help us better understand Famine related burials.
01:28 Getting my eye in on identifying unmarked graves & then the rows they form
03:21 Grave shafts and grave banks
05:38 Different grave diggers or different burial practice ie. common grave evidence?
08:55 Side banks & head banks leading to corrugated surfaces
10:50 'Fingerprinting' different types of institutional burials & their resulting graves?