Lusitania passenger details among records uploaded online by Co Cork group

A team at Skibbereen Heritage Centre have been digitising burial registers for some time, creating a database of records 

As well as the burial records, the Skibbereen Heritage Centre website features video tours of some west Cork graveyards, which give a brief history of each graveyard alongside some of the stories of those buried there as well as a 'virtual tour' of the monuments Picture: Skibbereen Heritage Centre 

Details of passengers who died onboard the Lusitania which were previously unavailable are among more than 57,500 burial records put online by a heritage group in Co Cork. 

The sinking of the Cunard-owned liner by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915 off the Old Head of Kinsale,
ultimately forced America into joining the Allies in the First World War.