St. Joseph's Cemetery, Cork, was established for the burials for the poor, by temperance campaigner Father Mathew in 1830 when he leased land from the Botanical Gardens.
[1] It was sometimes called Father Mathew Cemetery.
[3] A large number of victims of the Irish Famine are buried on the site, many in unmarked graves.
[4] Cork Corporation took over the cemetery in 1968.
[5] The Society of African Missions Church (St. Joseph's) in Wilton, Cork,[6] has a graveyard beside it confusingly also called St. Joseph's Cemetery.