LAST UPDATE | 14 Mar

FOUL PLAY HAS been ruled out in the case of a young mother who was found dead in “unexplained circumstances” in Cork yesterday evening, with gardaí satisfied her death was the result of an accident.

She was named locally as 32-year-old Kelly Cremin, a mother of one.

Gardaí attended to a home in Innishmore Park yesterday evening – a residential area in the middle of Ballincollig, a western suburb of Cork – after a neighbour raised the alarm. 

No one else was in the house at the time the woman’s body was discovered, gardaí said.

Kelly was pronounced dead at the scene by a local GP and her body was transferred to the morgue.

A postmortem examination was carried out today at Cork University Hospital by State Pathologist Dr Yvonne McCartney. It revealed that the death occurred as a a result of head injuries from a fall.

An inquest will be held in due course. Funeral arrangements for Kelly will be finalised in the coming days.

A Family Liaison Officer has been assigned to support Kelly’s family and gardaí are appealing for witnesses to come forward.

Local Sinn Féin councillor, Joe Lynch, who is a resident of Innishmore estate, said he spent the evening with residents near the scene yesterday.

Lynch said: “In the first instance, my thoughts go out to the victim and their family.”

“As a lifelong resident of the estate, I have spent the evening with friends and neighbours, and all I can say is that everyone here in Innishmore is shell-shocked.”

Former Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr Colm Kelleher, who lives in Ballincollig, also offered his condolences to Kelly’s family at “an incredibly difficult and painful time.”

Additional reporting by Olivia Kelleher