Emergency works needed to save walls of historic Cork city cemetery

The affected section of boundary wall at St Joseph’s Cemetery in Ballyphehane secures a number of grave plots immediately next to it.

The famous shawlie Kathy Barry in her shop in 1961. She is among the well-known people buried in St Joseph's Cemetery in Ballyphehane. File Picture.

Emergency works are required following the partial collapse of a wall around an historic Cork city cemetery.

The works may involve the removal of some trees, which have caused the damage to the boundary wall.