Burial (present location) in Cork City — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Under a modern concrete floor in Cork City, forty-eight bone fragments from at least four people waited beneath a shallow pit. They likely belonged to medieval residents near St Stephen’s Leper hospital, hidden by later building work and forgotten until renovation tools broke through in 2016. The bones did not leave a grand cemetery or mark a known tragedy. They simply rested under an ordinary house, holding the quiet weight of lives that once suffered, bled and died beside the city’s edge.

In October 2016, in the course of renovation works to a house, 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. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 20 January 2017

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