Dolphins Barn Jewish Cemetery was established in 1898 by Robert Bradlaw a dentist and prominent member of Dublin's Jewish community who raised £300 in donations to set up a new chevra kadisha. and the Dublin Jewish Holy Burial Society (HBS), founded in 1884 and dedicated to financier and philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore. It replaced Ballybough Cemetery in Fairview as the principal Jewish cemetery in Dublin. It lies close to the South Circular Road, in the vicinity of which a large number of Jews lived, and is located near where the districts of Dolphin's Barn, Harold's Cross and Drimnagh meet.