Clonmel cemetery (well worth the twenty minute walk) has been in use as a place of worship and burial going back to Celtic times. The earliest headstones date that is still visible is that of Stephen Towes 1698. There are a number of mass graves there however. The Cemetery is where the remains of 170 victims of the Lusitania are interred in three mass graves and twenty four individual plots. Forty five of them remain unidentified. In 1915 the whole town witnessed the heartbreaking processions of multiple funerals making their way from the town to here. It is known locally as the Old Cemetery. The remains of many famous people are buried here. Among them Dr. James Roche Verling, a native of Cobh, who was personal physician to Napoleon Bonaparte, Jack Doyle famous as the "Gorgeous Gael", actor, boxer and hero to thousands of Irish men and women, and poet Charles Wolfe. The cemetery is also a resting place for many Naval and Military personnel killed in World War conflicts.