Expert: Map shows location of Bessborough children's burial ground

Land is earmarked for apartments

The entrance to the site where MVB Two Ltd has sought an application for planning permission at Ballinure, Blackrock, Cork on the lands of the former mother and baby home at Bessborough. Picture: Dan Linehan

A mapping expert with Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) believes a children’s burial ground associated with a mother and baby home is located on land now earmarked for apartments.

John Clarkin, who has worked with OSi for more than 46 years, and who has been an expert witness on boundary matters for over 30 years, made his comment on the second day of An Bord Pleanála’s oral hearing into MWB Two’s strategic housing development (SHD) plan for 179-apartments in three blocks on a privately-owned 3.7-acre site on the former Bessborough estate in Cork.