Thank you Donnacha for letting us know. We will certainly be writing to them. My husband and his father and brother all worked as surgeons at the N. Infirmary AND family were connected to St. Anne's. What a travesty to disrupt anyone's gravesite! This sacrilege to our ancestors should NOT be tolerated. Our protest is the only positive thing we can do for them -- they did much for us. Thanks again. Emma Dundon Canada. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnacha O'Briain-De Grant" <dgrant@yesic.com> To: <IRL-CORK-CITY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:13 PM Subject: Huguenot and other cemetary sacrilege > A 'developer' group has applied for planning permission to build on the old > Huguenot cemetery in Carey's Lane, Cork City, and the Shandon Court Hotel > (former North Infirmary) want to build an extension on the old St. Anne > Shandon graveyard behind them. (While the old Huguenot Cemetary site was > sold off by the Methodists over a hundred years ago, the Representative > Church Body (Church of Ireland) sold the Shandon cemetary land to the hotel > only recently). > > These applications are no doubt being pursued in the belief that no one > cares. I believe they should be objected to loudly especially by the > worldwide Cork genealogical community. These are some of your ancestors > graves and they are being desecrated by people who if they get away with it > will soon have golf courses on any rural cemetary they can get their hands > on. The barbarians are as active in Ireland as everywhere else. > > To object you must cite the following numbers: > > T.P. 24795/00 for the Carey's Lane Development (Huguenot Cemetary) > > and > > TP 24932/01 for the John Redmond St. Development (St. Anne Shandon Cemetery) > > And the address to send these objections is: > > Town Planning Department, > Cork Corporation, > Abbey Court House, > Georges Quay, > Cork > > Regards, > > Donnacha > > >