Graze diggers: Sheep uncover historic burial plots in Cork

Woolly thinking helps reveal tombs that had been hidden for generations
Graze diggers: Sheep uncover historic burial plots in Cork

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. 

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