The burial ground was initially used for the poor Spaniards of La Turba; following the 1704 capture of Gibraltar, it was utilised as a Protestant cemetery.

St. Jago's Cemetery was located in Gibraltar, the British Overseas Territory at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula.

[3][4][5] It extended from the defensive wall to what is now AquaGib Limited, the water supply company that was formerly Lyonnaise des Eaux (Gibraltar).

[5][8] The cemetery is believed to have been the location of an older burial ground for those impoverished Spaniards who once lived in the La Turba district.

[8] The Trafalgar Cemetery, just south of the Charles V Wall and near the Southport Gates, was consecrated in the late eighteenth century, and utilised for interments from 1798 to 1814.