What is recorded here

Under the concrete floor of a twentieth-century extension at Stephens's Street, forty-eight bone fragments from at least four people waited for discovery. They likely belonged to medieval occupants near St Stephen's Leper hospital, yet the exact timing of their burial remains uncertain. The stones did not record whether fear, fever or forgotten ceremony brought them together. They only preserved the shape of lives that Cork stopped naming.

In October 2016, in the course of renovation works to a house at 20 Stephens's Street, redeposited human skeletal remains were found in a shallow pit underneath a concrete floor of an extension dating to the 20th century. A total of 48 human skeletal fragments were identified from the assemblage representing at least four individuals. While it is uncertain when the remains had been re-deposited, the proximity of the remains to the original St Stephen’s Leper hospital (CO074-045001-) strongly suggests the remains to be medieval in date. This record is for the original location of the burials which is not currently known. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 20 January 2017

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