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Documents given to James Reilly show Galway City Council were aware of burials
Lorna Siggins
Mon, Nov 10, 2014
Evidence on the Tuam mother and babies home recently presented to Minister for Children James Reilly points to a far more extensive burial site, local historian Catherine Corless has said.
Ms Corless, who is due to speak at a conference at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in NUI Galway (NUIG) this evening, has obtained maps and minutes of meetings from Galway County Council which confirm that the local authority was aware of the burials.
Ms Corless, who conducted the research into the deaths of 796 infants at the Bon Secours home in Tuam between 1925 and 1961, says that minutes of a Galway County Council meeting of December 11th 1979 refer to a proposal to build a children’s playground close to new local authority housing on
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The motion refers to a “children’s burial ground” on the site and the “sensitive nature of the area”.
The maps from the Galway County Council archive show the irregular nature of back gardens attached to the local authority housing, built after the home was demolished.
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