Gardaí will struggle to identify body of man found in Mallow house

Fears that dental records may not exist for man who is believed to have died more than 20 years ago

Flowers left outside the boarded-up vacant house on Beecher street, Mallow where the body of a man believed to have been dead for 20 years was discovered. Picture: Dan Linehan

Gardaí working to identify the remains of a man found in a house in Mallow fear that dental records may no longer be available as he is believed to have died more than two decades ago.

An autopsy of the man at Cork City Morgue following the discovery of his remains in a house on Beecher Street in the north Cork on Friday have revealed that he had visited a dentist.