July 17, 2021- 6:27 p.m.
Tuam, a name that traumatised the whole of Ireland and the world.
The researcher, Catherine Corless, has said her discovery of child death records from the home run by Catholic nuns in Tuam, County Galway, along with a lack of burial records for them, suggested that many of the children’s remains lie in the site of an old septic tank.
Church leaders in Galway, western Ireland, have said they had no idea so many children who died at the orphanage had been buried there, and have pledged to support local efforts to mark the spot with a plaque listing all 796 children.
County Galway death records showed that the children, mostly babies and toddlers, had died, often of sickness or disease, during the 35 years the home operated from 1926 to 1961, according to Corless’s research.
