Archaeologists have trained volunteers to map headstones and record the stories and folklore from historic cemeteries as part of a nationwide project aimed at reaching out to the Irish disapora.

A VOLUNTEER group has developed an interactive website mapping the graves of some of the most famous people buried in Cork’s historic St Finbarr’s Cemetery.

A VOLUNTEER committee has been formed to help plan a major clean-up of one of Cork’s most historic cemeteries.

VOLUNTEERS are being sought to help a cash- strapped local authority maintain an historic cemetery which has become overgrown due to government cutbacks.

COUNCIL officials have blamed Government cutbacks for the overgrown state of a burial ground in which some of Ireland’s best-known republican martyrs are buried.