Burial ground in Spital (orrery and Kilmore By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Four or five grave markers still stand beside the road, marking a burial ground connected to the nearby leper hospital. Quarry men and road workers have repeatedly broken through the top soil, forcing bones to be recovered and carried elsewhere. The dead remain tucked beneath ordinary traffic, waiting for humanity to remember them.

On E side of road, on S side of disused quarry and to N of leper hospital (14629). Area known locally as graveyard; four or five upstanding grave markers remembered. Bones found here near 'top of ground' when quarry was being worked (OS Field Memoranda, 1932). According to local information, during road resurfacing c. 1959, some bones were found and reinterred at Buttevant Friary (14382). No visible surface trace of burial ground. Probably associated with hospital. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.