Experts cannot rule out possibility of burials on Bessborough land

Developers have applied for permission to build 67 apartments and 179 residential units

A computer-generated image of the proposed residential developments, including the Strategic Housing Development Gateway View, earmarked for a parcel of land on the former Bessborough estate in Cork.

The possibility that unrecorded burials took place on land near a former mother and baby home which is now earmarked for over 240 apartments cannot be “fully discounted”, experts have said.

Archaeologist John Cronin, who was engaged to examine a parcel of development land at Bessborough in Cork City, also said in his report that the developers “must remain conscious of the apprehensions and sensitivities of many survivors”.