Western Cape, CAPE TOWN, Robben Island, General cemetery (aka Irish cemetery)

Cemetery information:- Staff Burial Ground The Staff Burial Ground of the Infirmary period was situated in the village precinct and is the second largest cemetery, with 253 individual graves. A number of the deceased were people of Irish descent who were working at the General Infirmary, and members of their families. The site is enclosed on three sides within low rectangular dry-stone uncoursed walling. From the Robben Island Museum leaflet. Album incomplete, we do not have photographs of all the graves in this section. Note: We have been told that bull dozers flattened a whole lot of the graves on the island, when the prison was build. The island has no record of who was interred on there. eGGSA captions done by: Heleen Nel, Lorraine Beechey, Wilna Eygelaar, James Anderson & Eileen de Jager The GGSA Cemetery DVD only has information of the cemetery location:- Cemetery ID: 1729 Information submitted by: Johann Janse van Rensburg Google Earth Project Information:- GPSID: 1879 GPS: -33 48.814 18 22.667