Hi,
Francis could be buried in any cemetery in or around Cork City.
The best thing you could do first is to get his exact date of death. On the cert it might list the hospital he may have been taken to after the accident if he in fact was taken to a hospital. Possibilities are the South Infirmary or the Union Hospital.
The Union Hospital had it's own cemetery but there aren't any records available. The other strong possibility , I thought, was St. Josephs Cemetery , Tory Top Road Cork. Their registers of burials are available online at the
www.corkarchives.ie I did go through the records for June & July 1897 and didn't find any Francis Murphy listed. Is there any possibility that his body was repatriated to his homeland ( USA)? If you scroll through the records you will see that some people
are buried in "Poor Ground" which would be a communal grave.
St. Michaels cemetery in Blackrock where the drowning occurred was not open in 1897.
Another option may have been St. Finbarrs Cemetery, Glasheen Road, Cork. You could contact the Cork City Council cemeteries section but you would have to have the approximate date of death. This is the link to the Cork City Council site
http://www.corkcity.ie/services/recreationsport/cemeteries/ email address is recreation [-- at --]corkcity.ie
If you live in Cork City you could visit the Cork City library and book a microfiche to go through the newspapers of the time to see if there is any reference to the drowning of Francis Murphy.
Some extracts from Old Irish newspapers are online but one that I often use only has December 1897 so no luck there.
http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Cork/1897.htmlGood luck with the search.
Mary
Celtic Liberty
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