Graze diggers: Sheep uncover historic burial plots in Cork

Woolly thinking helps reveal tombs that had been hidden for generations

Grazing sheep have uncovered historic graves hidden for many decades by dense overgrowth in a Cork graveyard. Picture: Larry Cummins

Grazing sheep have uncovered historic graves hidden for many decades by dense overgrowth in a Cork graveyard.

The long-lost grave of a child who died in 1872 was recently uncovered by the sheep in St Matthew's graveyard in Crosshaven.