County: Cork Site name: SHANDON, Cork
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 74:33(02) Licence number: 01E0529
Author: Margaret McCarthy, Archaeological Services Unit Ltd, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
Site type: Graveyard
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 567442m, N 572412m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.902905, -8.473120
An excavation is taking place before development of the Shandon Court Hotel, formerly the North Infirmary Hospital, Cork. The development area is to the immediate west of the hotel and was formerly part of the graveyard of St Anne’s Church of Ireland church. The excavation began in October 2002 and to date has uncovered burials and headstones of 19th-century date.
