Survivor pleads for halt to plan to build over babies' graves

SURVIVORS of Bessborough Mother and Baby Home are set to launch a legal challenge against plans to build on the site.

- SYLVIA POWNALL

More than 900 babies are buried on the grounds of the notorious institution which was run by the Sacred Heart nuns.

Developers have lodged plans for a strategic housing development at the Cork site – but survivors fear the final resting place of their babies will be lost forever.

Cork Survivors and Supporters Alliance has lodged an objection with both Cork City Council and An Bord Pleanala.

It advises of its intention to seek a judicial review in the High Court to prevent the children’s burial ground from being bulldozed.

The objection points to an Ordnance Survey Map which clearly marks the location of the children’s burial ground – where two new apartment blocks are proposed.