Wall on Curragh cemetary to be restored

THE CURRAGH, 4 March 1999: by Brian Byrne. The Department of Defence has invited tenders for the supply of materials and work to restore the wall of the Old Military Cemetary on the Curragh plains. The cemetary was opened in 1869 and used for the burial of Britih soldiers and their families who were garrisoned on the Curragh Camp. Poignant features of the cemetary include a significant number of children's graves, many of whom presumably died during epidemics of ailments which today are no longer automatic killers, including influenza ... and a section devoted to soldiers killed in th Great War of 1914-18.