IRELAND
Galway Independent
Excavations works on the site of an unofficial graveyard at the former Tuam Mother and Baby Home began on Saturday and will continue for five weeks.
A sample of the site will be excavated by a team of specialist archaeologists led by a Forensic Archaeologist, on behalf of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, which is investigating former homes around the country.
The Tuam investigation comes as a result of research by Tuam historian Catherine Corless, which revealed that 796 children died at the former Bon Secours home between 1925 and 1961.
The excavation works follow on from a geophysical survey ordered by the Commission in October 2015. A fraction of the site will now be excavated through test trenches, the location of which have been informed by a geophysical survey.
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