Among the notable persons buried here are : Bohermore Cemetery ( or the New Cemetery , as it is more popularly known ) , Cemetery Cross , Bohermore , was opened in 1880 . It contains two mortuary chapels and is the burial place of several important Galwegians , including Pádraic Ó Conaire the Gaelic author , William Joyce , more widely known as Lord Haw-Haw the Nazi propagandist , Augusta , Lady Gregory , co-founder of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and Michael Morris , 3rd Baron Killanin , a senior member of one the Tribes of Galway and former world president of the International Olympic Committee . A memorial to the 91 people who died on 14 August 1959 when Dutch aeroplane KLM Flight 607-E crashed into the sea west of Galway can be seen just inside the main gates . Several bodies of the passengers are buried around the memorial
KLM Flight 607-E
KLM Flight 607-E
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