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Watchtower at Glasnevin Cemetery

  In the 1840s, nightwatchmen on this tower successfully guarded the Cemetery against "Resurrectionists" who supplied the medical profession with corpses for anatomy students. Submitted by Mark Jenkins    

 

In the 1840s, nightwatchmen on this 
tower successfully guarded the Cemetery 
against "Resurrectionists" who supplied the 
medical profession with corpses for anatomy students.

Submitted by Mark Jenkins

 

 

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