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Mass grave found at former Catholic orphanage in
Ireland
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4278876/Mass-grave-former-Catholic-mother-baby-home.html
A mass grave containing the remains of babies and young children has been discovered at
a former Catholic home for unmarried mothers and their children in Ireland, an official
report revealed today.
The remains were found in a disused sewer during excavations at the Bon Secours Mother
and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway.
The ages of the dead ranged from 35 foetal weeks to three years old and were mostly
buried in the 1950s.
A mass grave containing the remains of babies and young children has been discovered at
the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway. Pictured today,
the covered over field
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Excavations found 'significant quantities of human remains' in an underground structure
divided into 20 chambers. The children's ages ranged from 35 foetal weeks to three years
old
Pictured, the field in 2014, before excavations began. Workmen are seen surveying the
ground
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In a statement today, the Mother and Baby Homes Commission said 'significant quantities
of human remains have been discovered in at least 17 of the 20 underground chambers
which were examined earlier this year'.
The inquiry was launched after local historian Catherine Corless said there was evidence of
an unmarked graveyard at the home, where records showed almost 800 children died
between 1925 and 1961.
However, there was a burial record for just one child.
Pictured, a plaque erected in memory of the adults and children buried on the site
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In the mid-1970s, local boys playing in the field had reported seeing a pile of bones in a
hidden underground chamber there. Pictured, the home when it housed women and
children
The find also dispels a popular argument that bones seen at the site might predate the
orphanage's opening, when the building was a workhouse for the adult poor. Pictured, a
group of children at the home in 1924
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The Mother and Baby Homes commission is investigating 17 other church-run institutions.
Others have claimed that the pile of bones found dated back to the Great Famine in the
19th century
In the mid-1970s, local boys playing in the field had reported seeing a pile of bones in a
hidden underground chamber.
Today's announcement dispels a popular argument that bones seen at the site might
predate the orphanage's opening, when the building was a workhouse for the adult poor.
Some have even claimed that they were from people who died in the mid-19th century
Great Famine.
My grandmother died in Tuam but we had no idea where she was buried.
Until 2015...
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