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Irish Independent
16-05-2025
- Irish Independent
Planning grant for 246 homes at Cork site where executed RIC constable believed to be secretly buried
Constable Thomas Joseph Walsh was court martialled and executed by the IRA in Blarney during the War of Independence Planning has been granted for 246 homes to be built at a Cork site where the secret burial place of an executed RIC constable is believed to be located. An Bord Pleanála upheld planning permission on May 6 for Clockstrike Ltd to build the houses and a creche at Ringwood, Shean Upper in Blarney.
The Irish Sun
12-05-2025
- The Irish Sun
Human remains rule for builders as €76m housing development gets green light on Cork site amid IRA secret burial mystery
A €76M housing plan in Co Cork is to go ahead on a site which might be the burial location of a man executed in the War of Independence. An Bord Pleanala has upheld the decision of The construction of 246 new residential units and a creche will take place on an 8.3-hectare site at Ringwood, Shean Upper, Blarney. However, the board included an unusual planning condition that all works should cease across the site if any human remains are found during construction and that the city coroner and gardai be notified. Ringwood is the suspected location of the body of RIC Constable Thomas Joseph Walsh who was executed by the The deceased, who was born in Dublin and served with the British Army during World War I, was stationed in the East Riding division of Cork after joining the RIC in November 1919. Read more in News According to files from the Bureau of Military History, a former IRA captain Seán Healy said he received orders to put Constable Walsh 'permanently out of commission' after the RIC officer was observed insulting staff in the parcels office at Cork railway station. Acting on intelligence, Healy and two other IRA volunteers boarded the night train from Cork to However, the policeman escaped his captors and fled into a wood in heavy fog. Healy and his associates sought assistance from a local IRA commander, Frank Busteed, who mobilised other volunteers to search for the RIC constable. Most read in Irish News He was recaptured a few hours later at around 4am after he was found hiding in a cowshed. Constable Walsh was convicted of being a traitor at a summary court martial and executed with his body secretly buried in Ringwood. BURIAL GROUND The RIC register recorded that he had been dismissed from the constabulary on the same date that he was abducted from the train. The victim's nephew, Éamon Grogan – a former IRA volunteer – has expressed hope that his uncle's body can be found so that he can receive a proper burial. In a newspaper interview last March, Mr Grogan said: 'Like anybody else, whether they are Locals claim that it is known that the body was buried in a marshy corner of a field at Ringwood known as 'the soft bog.' However, no attempts at excavation have ever taken place to date. Confirmation of An Bord Pleanála's approval of the large-scale residential development in Ringwood is likely to increase hope that Constable Walsh's remains will be found. An Bord Pleanála has also required the developer to arrange archaeological monitoring of site operations. The large-scale residential development, which is the first phase of a large, long-term project for almost 1,000 new homes on the eastern end of Blarney, is located close to the N20 Cork- 1 Ringwood is the suspected location of the body of RIC Constable Thomas Joseph Walsh
