US EditionExcavation Underway at Tuam Site to Uncover Mass Grave of Nearly 800 Infants
- Preliminary excavation activities commenced on June 16, 2025, at the site in Tuam, County Galway, where a residential institution for mothers and infants once operated.
- This followed 2022 legislation enabling the work after investigations revealed a mass burial linked to the home operating from 1925 to 1961.
- A specially appointed team will recover, memorialise, and rebury remains, using forensic controls and 2.4 metre hoarding to secure the site during the approximately 24-month project.
- Local historian Catherine Corless identified death certificates for 796 children without burial records, and the Commission found disquieting infant mortality with remains in a disused sewage tank.
- The excavation aims to address historical neglect but may not give full closure, highlighting a complex social legacy involving state and church-run institutions.
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796 Infant remains expected to be found in septic tank.
After years of public pressure and legal preparation, a forensic excavation has officially begun at the grounds of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway. Authorities anticipate recovering the remains of up to 796 infants and young children who died between 1925 and 1961. The site gained international attention following revelations in 2014 that death records for… Source
Ugly truth of Catholic institution in Ireland: 796 bodies of infants expected to be inside septic tank of care home for single mothers run by nuns
In Ireland's Catholic care homes, after the babies were delivered, the nuns separated them from their mothers immediately after birth without taking any approval of the mother.
Ten years after revelations about the ill-treatment of young mothers in the institutions of the Church dedicated to them, work began in the west of the country to exhume the remains of their dead children between 1925 and 1961.
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