IRELAND
Irish Times
Elaine Edwards
A woman who visited the site of the Tuam mother and baby home four decades ago has recalled seeing what appeared like mineral bottles rolled up in cloth on top of each other when the ground collapsed under her.
“I was a few feet away from something I couldn’t explain. Now I would describe it as a Cidona bottle or a Coke bottle rolled up in a cloth and they were all piled on top of each other like sausages,” said Mary Moriarty.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Liveline programme on Friday, she said she was later told by a woman who had worked on the grounds that they were the “little baby graves”.
She had gone to the site in the summer of 1975 after a child on the street “had a skull on a stick, shaking it”. She said there was “rubble and stuff” where the home was being demolished and the existing graveyard there was overgrown and covered in bushes. The ground collapsed beneath her and she “landed down in something”.
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