Burial place and headstone of William Hellier Baily (1819-1888)

Abstract

In our biographical account of William Hellier Baily, the Acting Palaeontologist with the Geological Survey of Ireland we stated that the headstone over his grave was missing (Wyse Jackson and Parkes 2009, p. 76). Baily was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery then just south of Dublin city, and despite knowing the grant/plot number (2654 in Sector 187/B1) and PNWJ walking the cemetery and searching extensively, the headstone was not located. Recently a comprehensive photographic study was carried out of the headstones of the cemetery and the images and transcriptions are available online. This shows that Baily's headstone is in fact in situ.