Plans for a residential development at the Sunday’s Well site of the former Good Shepherd convent in Cork City are likely to be the subject of planning appeals after considerable local objection.

The embers of Tuesday’s fire at St Kevin’s have barely died away, but questions are still being asked in relation to another famous Cork building that went up in flames a year ago.

There was great potential in the iconic St Kevin’s asylum, writes Kieran McCarthy.

Developers of an apartment complex at a former Magdalene Laundry in Cork must carry out an assessment of the “likely occurrence of undocumented burials of children” on the site before planning permission can be granted.

A FORMER church-like Victorian school building converted to offices, next to what’s been used as a Tridentine Church in Cork City’s Shanakiel/Sunday’s Well is up for sale.

A Dundalk firm whose directors are linked to major Northern Ireland and UK developers McAleer & Rushe has emerged as the buyer of the Good Shepherd Convent in Sunday’s Well, above Cork city. Moneda Development was set up earlier this year, and directors include Eamonn Laverty and James Higgins of McAleer & Rushe, who specialise in design and build, asset management, construction and multi-use projects.

Three development sites worth up to €30m have been put for sale in Cork City and suburbs.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross, John Buckley, wants the body of “Little Nellie” to be exhumed from its grave at the now-derelict Good Shepherd Convent site in Sunday Well (Irish Examiner, 18 August).

The Bishop of Cork and Ross has called for the exhumation of the remains of Little Nellie — the “unofficial patron saint” of Cork — from a cemetery on lands controlled by receivers to allow people to pray at her grave.

Sunday’s Well, Cork city €325,000

The UN must be involved in any inquiry into Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes scandal, a rally in Cork was told yesterday.

SO far, not one woman has voted against the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, even though it is inadequate. Not one woman has stood up for her fellow women and said “I will not call you a criminal if you seek to end your pregnancy in this State.”

The survivors advocacy group, Justice for Magdalenes, has announced the end of its political campaign as its twin objectives of an official state apology and the establishment of a compensation scheme have been achieved.

A religious order has refused to offer any explanation as to why four women who died in its care are named as being buried in two different locations.

Asbestos has been found in the ruins of a former convent gutted by fire.

Jeremy Williams in his masterful Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland refers to the ‘Lhasa-like’ tiered effect created by Robert Ashlin’s Good Shepherd Convent and other institutions located on the prominent Cork City hillside.

Experts are drafting plans to make safe a listed former convent gutted by fire this week.

Gardaí believe the fire which gutted a listed former convent building in Cork City was started deliberately.

Around 20 firefighters are battling a blaze which broke out at a former convent and orphanage in Cork city early this morning.

Close to 40 new cases have been uncovered of women as young as 14 years old having been committed to Magdalene laundries by the State.

A LUNG-expanding climb from Sunday’s Well Road, via a narrow boreen, leads to a level plateau high above Cork city.

A NEW green route walking path, through woods and along the glenside of the Donnybrook stream, will link the house scheme The Vicarage with the very heart of Douglas village in Cork, and, almost coincidentally, make it an easy stroll to the suburban village’s two churches. And schools. And shops, bars and everything else.

Rose Martin says five-bedroomed upgrade is in a contemporary design.

AN TAISCE has sought to halt the demolition of a mid-19th century, fire-damaged chapel at a former convent in Cork city, claiming it is still protected.

FIREMEN had to break down the gate to gain access and found no water with which to fight the blaze that destroyed the Good Shepherd convent and chapel at Sundays Well in Cork recently.

THE preliminary report on the fire damage to St Finbarr’s maternity hospital in Cork is due today.

A 25-year-old man is to appear before a special sitting of Limerick District Court charged in relation to a murder inquiry into the death of a pensioner last Thursday.

Limerick gardai are to question a man for a further six hours about the murder of 75-year-old retired schoolteacher Joe O'Doherty.