Cork City Council granted permission to demolish almost a dozen buildings at Bessborough in Blackrock, to make way for the apartments, reports The Irish Examiner.
The Irish Examiner writes:
A decision on whether 140 apartments can be built on the site of a notorious Cork mother and baby institution is due in July….Between 1922 and 1998, the Sacred Heart nuns ran Bessborough, and in 2021, the Mother and Baby Homes Commission reported… it was ‘highly likely’ burials had occurred at Bessborough.
The Bessborough estate, with its centrepiece the late 18th-century manor, originally covered 200 acres…
… appeals have been lodged… Mr Horgan, in his appeal, quoted the Bessborough group as previously noting that the site contains ‘a landscape of trauma, loss, and unmarked burials’…
