IRELAND
UTV
Published Monday, 16 June 2014
As an inquiry gets underway into the deaths of almost 800 babies and toddlers believed to be buried at a mass unmarked grave in Co Galway, two men have told UTV Live Tonight the stories of their life after being separated from their mothers.
Catholic nuns from the Sisters of the Bon Secours order ran St Mary’s Orphanage in Tuam between 1925 and 1961.
Within the grounds of the former orphanage lies a grotto shrine first thought to be a famine grave.
The Tuam burial site was discovered in 1975 by schoolfriends Barry Sweeney and Frannie Hopkins.
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.
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