Remembering all those who died at St Lomans Hospital
Welcome to Friends of Julia, a web site dedicated to keeping alive the memory of all those who died while resident in St Lomans Hospital, and who may be buried in St Lomans Cemetery on the Hospital grounds. Below we explain why we have found it necessary to have this web site and search facility
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The Story of Julia Leonard
Julia Leonard (nee Caffrey) was born in 1863 in Ongenstown, Navan, Co.Meath. She worked as housekeeper. Later she married Christopher Leonard from Trim and they had six children. In November 1897 Christopher committed Julia to St.Lomans Hospital Mullingar following a row where she accused him of having an affair.
Julia was pregnant with their sixth child and was forced to leave behind her five other children – the youngest was 18 months old. Her baby boy was born nine months after her committal and taken from her very shortly after he was born. Julia resigned herself to her life in St.Lomans and died 22 years later of heart failure .She was buried in 1919 in Plot 4, grave number 339 in St Lomans graveyard.
St Lomans Graveyard: 1907 - Present Day
About Mullingar's St Lomans Graveyard
There are 1300 patients buried in the graveyard at St.Lomans. The last burial was in 1970. They were single burial graves. Each grave was marked with a white cross – the cross had a number instead of a name. Most of the crosses were there until 2011 when they were removed to address vandalism and facilitate maintenance.
Recording 1300 Burials at St Lomans
In July 2021 the Clarke Family erected a headstone on the grave of their relative Julia Leonard to honour her memory. We would like to use this website to allow relatives build some sort of a memorial and memory to the other 1300 buried at St Lomans. Please contact us if you would like us to record your relatives’ story here.
St Lomans Graveyard Comes Back to Life
In recent years , a number of family members have placed white wooden crosses in the cemetery, with the names of their loved ones inscribed on the cross.
Notice Board:
Many thanks to all those family members who placed white crosses in memory of their family member buried in St Loman’s Graveyard
St Lomans Graveyard
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If you have any further information about St Lomans graveyard or wish to have a family member remembered on this site please get in touch