IRELAND
UTV
Published Thursday, 05 June 2014
The Adoption Rights Alliance is calling for a mass grave discovered in Co Galway to be treated as a crime scene.
The remains of up to 800 babies and toddlers were found next to a home for unmarried mothers in Tuam, which was operated by the Bon Secours Sisters between 1925 to 1961.
A historian confirmed the names of the 796 children buried in the mass grave after she made repeated requests from the state for records.
The Tuam burial site was discovered in 1975 by 12-year-old friends Barry Sweeney and Francis Hopkins.
But, locally, it was referred to for years as a famine burial site where youngsters who had died in the 1840s disaster were buried in a mass grave, often on unconsecrated ground.
Records of hundreds more at other homes are still being held confidentially.
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