IRELAND
Kilkenny People
Mary Cody
8 Mar 2017
Burial arrangements for unmarried mothers and their babies and children who died in the Thomastown County Home are being examined by a Commission of Investigation.
It is not known how many babies and young children died at the Home which operated from 1923 until it closed in the mid fifties.
In an extract from the Register of Deaths seen by the Kilkenny People there is a record of a three-month-old child who died at the home in February 1949 from enteritis.
The Commission has been established to investigate the experiences of mothers and children in 14 Mother and Baby Homes and a number of County Homes between 1922 and 1998.
A confidential committee has also been formed and is meeting with anyone who was a resident or worked or had specific knowledge of the homes.
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