IRELAND
Irish Central
Patrick Counihan @irishcentral June 03,2014
An Irish government minister has revealed the “horrific details” of the mass burial site housing up to 800 children and babies at a former religious-run home for unmarried mothers in Galway.
Ciaran Cannon, Minister of State for Education and Skills, spoke out as the Catholic Church began discussions on plans to erect a memorial at the mass grave in Tuam.
The Tuam burial site, much of it in a former septic tank, is located at what was a home for unmarried mothers and their babies run by the Bon Secours Sisters from the 1920s until the 1960s.
Local historian Catherine Corless discovered death records for 796 children from the home, ranging from infants to children up to the age of nine, but there is no record of their burial. Corless then set up a committee to erect a memorial.
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