There
was a vigil outside the Irish embassy in London on Thursday. It was for
the 796 children who died in a former mother and baby home in Tuam,
County Galway, which was operated by the Sisters of Bon Secours between
1925 and 1961. There are death records but no burial records for these
children.
The location of their graves is a mystery, although it is probable that they are near the home, and that some of them, according to testimony from two local boys, who found skeletons in 1975 after disturbing a concrete slab, may be in what was once a septic tank in the grounds. When the story broke a month ago there was fury, and misreporting. All the missing children, it was said, were in the tank. This is supposition. No one knows precisely where they are. The site has not been searched.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/05/horror-tuam-missing-babies-not-diminished
The location of their graves is a mystery, although it is probable that they are near the home, and that some of them, according to testimony from two local boys, who found skeletons in 1975 after disturbing a concrete slab, may be in what was once a septic tank in the grounds. When the story broke a month ago there was fury, and misreporting. All the missing children, it was said, were in the tank. This is supposition. No one knows precisely where they are. The site has not been searched.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/05/horror-tuam-missing-babies-not-diminished
