How six skeletons beneath a pub took on a life of their own
The site of the former Nancy Spain’s pub in Cork where the mass grave was found
In October 2021, the site of Nancy Spain’s pub and long-time music venue on Barrack Street in Cork city was being redeveloped.
The project was in the demolition stage, and builders had lifted a slate floor and begun digging down into a layer of rubble below the pub’s foundations, when archaeologist David Murphy spotted something interesting in the earth.