diff --git a/dev/resources/grafter/tabular/test-bom.csv b/dev/resources/grafter/tabular/test-bom.csv
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3a39807f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/resources/grafter/tabular/test-bom.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+foo
+a
+b
diff --git a/dev/resources/grafter/tabular/test-nobom.csv b/dev/resources/grafter/tabular/test-nobom.csv
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8c175220
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/resources/grafter/tabular/test-nobom.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+foo
+a
+b
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 04d3ee48..b92bd232 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
                  [grafter/vocabularies "0.2.0"]
 
                  [commons-logging "1.2"] ;; Shouldn't need this, but somehow excluded and required by SPARQLRepository
+                 [commons-io/commons-io "2.4"]
                  [org.clojure/data.csv "0.1.3"]
                  [grafter/clj-excel "0.0.9" :exclusions [commons-codec]]
                  [me.raynes/fs "1.4.6"]
diff --git a/src/tabular/grafter/tabular/csv.clj b/src/tabular/grafter/tabular/csv.clj
index 12e8983a..95edbb50 100644
--- a/src/tabular/grafter/tabular/csv.clj
+++ b/src/tabular/grafter/tabular/csv.clj
@@ -4,11 +4,16 @@
             [clojure.java.io :as io]
             [grafter.tabular.common :as tab]
             [grafter.rdf.protocols :refer [raw-value]])
-  (:import [java.io IOException]))
+  (:import [java.io IOException]
+           [org.apache.commons.io.input BOMInputStream]))
 
 (defmethod tab/read-dataset* :csv
   [source opts]
-  (let [csv-seq (tab/mapply csv/read-csv (tab/mapply io/reader source opts) opts)]
+  (let [reader (-> source
+                   io/input-stream
+                   BOMInputStream.
+                   (#(tab/mapply io/reader % opts)))
+        csv-seq (tab/mapply csv/read-csv reader opts)]
     (if (nil? csv-seq)
       (throw (IOException. (str "There was an error loading the CSV file: " source)))
       (tab/make-dataset csv-seq))))
diff --git a/test/grafter/tabular_test.clj b/test/grafter/tabular_test.clj
index 507ca7e7..fb8bc1f9 100644
--- a/test/grafter/tabular_test.clj
+++ b/test/grafter/tabular_test.clj
@@ -150,6 +150,16 @@
         (is-a-dataset? dataset)
         (has-metadata? dataset))))
 
+  (testing "Open CSV file and strip Byte-Order-Mark"
+    (testing "Strips BOM from first column name"
+      (let [dataset (read-dataset (io/resource "grafter/tabular/test-bom.csv"))
+            col-names (-> dataset (make-dataset move-first-row-to-header) (column-names))]
+        (is (= "foo" (first col-names)))))
+    (testing "Doesnt affect csv files without BOM"
+      (let [dataset (read-dataset (io/resource "grafter/tabular/test-nobom.csv"))
+            col-names (-> dataset (make-dataset move-first-row-to-header) (column-names))]
+        (is (= "foo" (first col-names))))))
+
   (testing "Open text file"
     (let [dataset (read-dataset (io/resource "grafter/tabular/test.txt") :format :csv)]
       (testing "returns a dataset"