‘Just a Jumble of bones.’ How a Baby Grave Discovery Has Grown to Haunt Ireland

‘Chamber of horrors’ finally being exhumed at mass baby grave site

The site, run by the Bon Secours Sisters, has forced Ireland and the Catholic Church to confront a legacy of shunning unmarried mothers.

‘Chamber of horrors’ being exhumed at Ireland mass baby grave at former home run by nuns

A mass grave that could hold up to nearly 800 infants and young children — some of it in a defunct septic tank — is being excavated on the grounds of the former home run by the Bon Secours Sisters, an order of nuns.

Timeline: Grim history of Ireland’s mother and baby homes

Exhumation of a mass grave has begun in Tuam, Ireland, at the site of a former mother and baby home.

Timeline: Grim history of Ireland's mother and baby homes

Exhumation of a mass grave has begun in Tuam, Ireland, at the site of a former mother and baby home. It's one of several that once operated across the country. The burial site could hold the remains of nearly 800…

‘Just a jumble of bones.’ How a baby grave discovery has grown to haunt Ireland

It was the 1970s in this small town in the west of Ireland when an orchard owner chased off two boys stealing his apples.The youngsters avoided being caught by clambering over the stone wall of the derelict Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home. When they landed, they discovered a dark secret that has grown to haunt Ireland.

No burial records found for 80 children who died in institution that predated Tuam mother and baby home

Glenamaddy was an institution which was set up  in 1921 by Galway County Council as part of its reorganisation of services for the poor prior to the establishment of the Tuam mother and baby home