Old Church Cemetery (Cobh)
Description:
Five US Navy servicemen were buried in the cemetery during WWI.
Address:
, , Cobh , , , Ireland
The Old Church Cemetery is an ancient cemetery on the outskirts of the town of Cobh, County Cork, Ireland which contains a significant number of important burials, including three mass graves and several individual graves containing the remains of 193 victims of the passenger ship RMS Lusitania which was sunk by a German torpedo off the Old Head of Kinsale during the First World War in May 1915 with the loss of more than 1,100 lives. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission registers and maintains the graves of 127 identified Commonwealth service personnel (including Lusitania victims) from the same war.
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51.863122 -8.296478
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