IRELAND
Cork Independent
Posted on 20/09/2012
by Brian Hayes Curtin
@BHayesCurtin
A graveyard in the former Magdalene laundry in Sunday’s Well under the control of NAMA is “neglected, forgotten and discarded – just the way these women were treated during their lives”, according to Katherine O’Donnell of the organisation Justice for Magdalenes.
“The Sunday’s Well site is now in NAMA with very neglected graves without proper headstones. The graves are untended and not properly marked.”
According to Ms O’Driscoll, a senior lecturer in UCD, when the women entered the institutions, they were given a generic name, often based on a saint like Mary of Knock or Mary of Fatima and the gravestones may not have had the women’s real names.
The Sunday’s Well institution was run by the order of The Good Shepherd.
“We would hope that the sisters have proper records of who is in the graveyard,” she said, adding that the victims deserved their graves to be well tended.
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