IRELAND
Newstalk
Eoin Brennan
Saturday 7 June 2014
The bodies of nine women who died at the Tuam mother and Baby home may also be in the septic tank believed to hold the bodies of 796 children.
Catherine Corless – the local historian who first discovered the death records of the children – show nine women also died at the home during the same period and their burial spots are currently unkown. At this point Corless can confirm that the women died at the home between the years of 1937 to 1961 but she has not been able to find graves for the women. Corless stresses that she cannot confirm the nine are buried with the children.
“When I was getting the names of the children who died in the home …they also gave me a list of nine adult women who died, and it stated on the certs that they died in the home in Tuam.
“Now, I can’t confirm that they were buried with the children. They died in the home during the years from 1937 to 1961, that’s all I can tell you. I have nine names and I have no idea where they are,” Corless told Newstalk.
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