Mass septic tank grave 'containing the skeletons of 800 babies' at site of Irish home for unmarried mothers
The bodies of nearly 800 babies are believed to have been interred in a concrete tank beside a former home for unmarried mothers. ● The dead babies are thought to have been secretly buried beside a home for single mothers and their children in County Galway, Ireland, over a period of 36 years. It is suspected that 796 children were interred on unconsecrated ground without headstones or coffins next to the home run by the Bon Secours nuns in Tuam between 1925 and 1961. Newly unearthed reports show that they suffered malnutrition and neglect, which caused the deaths of many, while others died of measles, convulsions, TB, gastroenteritis and pneumonia.