Call for audit of deaths and burials at Cork's Good Shepherd convent

Calls are being made to require developers of the former Good Shepherd convent, orphanage, and Magdalene laundry in Cork City to establish how many women and children died at the property and where they are buried, before redeveloping the site.

Plans for 274 student apartments on lands of the former Good Shepherd Convent on Convent Avenue, Sunday’s Well, in the northwest of the city, have been appealed to An Coimisiún Pleanála.

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