Dr Mary Hearn Park

By John | Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Dr Mary Hearn Park
Graveyard name: 
Dr Mary Hearn Park
Graveyard Code: 
CO-DMHP
RMP/Site number: 
CO074-033002-

Location

Bob and Joan's Walk
Cork, Cork
Ireland
51° 54' 11.1744" N, 8° 28' 31.4472" W
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Townland: 
Cork City
Number of burials: 
103
Terrain: 
Level
Enclosure: 
Stone wall
Gateway: 
Iron Gate
Notes: 

To SE of St. Anne's C of I church (CO074-033003-) and on W side of former North Infirmary Hospital. Roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 46m N-S; c. 55m E-W), enclosed by high stone wall to E, S and W; low stone wall topped by railings to N. No longer in use. Line of 19th century inscribed headstones placed upright along E and W walls. Chest tombs in original positions, dating from 1796; also some pyramidal gravemarkers remain.

See Excavations 2001, 39-40; Excavations 2002, 72.
 
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994).