2011:096 - ST ANNE’S SHANDON, Cork

A licence to carry out monitoring of landscaping and remedial works at St Anne’s Shandon graveyard was granted in September 2008. The neglected and vandalised nature of the graveyard necessitated the work. The overall setting of the graveyard will be enhanced while providing essential amenity facilities in this part of the city. The scheme was postponed and recommenced in November 2010.

Monitoring of the excavation of the perimeter path continued in 2011 and was completed in May. The partial remains of an additional five in situ headstones were recorded upon removal of 0.2m of topsoil. All the headstones had been broken in antiquity. No inscriptions were noted. All were retained in situ. The remains of a vault were partially exposed in the western area of the site, directly east of a large table tomb belonging to the Woods family. A total of fourteen box tombs were repaired under supervision.