For sale: 16-acre site of buried hospital records

OWNERS of the land outside Cork city which was revealed this week as a dumping ground for hospital patient records recently put the site up for sale.

A price tag of about €3 million has been put on the 16-acre piece of ground at Killacloyne, which is adjacent to the new Cork-Midleton commuter rail line.

It was during excavation work for the railway project that hundreds of medical files dating back to the 1970s and 1980s were uncovered on the edge of the site.