Descendants to restore grave of Cork man who plotted 1880s dynamite attack on Britain

John Curtin Kent was a relative of the well-known Thomas Kent whose body was exhumed and buried after a State funeral in Castlelyons in 2015

John Curtin Kent was born in 1849 in Ballyhindon close to Fermoy town and is buried in a family plot in Kilcrumper Old Cemetery.

The grave of a Cork man sentenced to life in prison for plotting an 1880s dynamite attack on Britain is to be restored in a project undertaken by his great great grandniece.

John Curtin Kent was born in 1849 in Ballyhindon close to Fermoy town and is buried in a family plot in Kilcrumper Old Cemetery. Now his relative Laura Doyle has been granted funding from Cork County Council to carry out restoration of the grave.