Done. It never happened, which is typical when anti-Catholic bigots make these kind of claims::
Tuam mother and baby home: the trouble with the septic tank story
Catherine Corlesss research revealed that 796 children died at St Marys. She now says the nature of their burial has been widely misrepresented
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...On St Patricks Day this year Barry Sweeney was drinking in Brownes bar, on the Square in Tuam. He fell into conversation with someone who was familiar with Corlesss research, and who repeated the story of boys finding bones. I told her that I was one of those boys, Sweeney tells The Irish Times in his home, on the outskirts of Tuam. I got a phonecall from Catherine a couple of weeks later.
Sweeney was 10 in 1975, and the friend he was with on that day, Frannie Hopkins, was 12. They dropped down from the two-and-a-half-metre boundary wall as usual, into the part of the former grounds that Corless and local people believe is the unofficial burial place for those who died in the home. We used to be in there playing regular. There was always this slab of concrete there, he says.
In his kitchen, Sweeney demonstrates the size of this concrete flag as he recalls it: its an area a little bigger than his coffee table, about 120cm long and 60cm wide. He says he does not recall seeing any other similar flags in their many visits to the area.
Between them the boys levered up the slab. There were skeletons thrown in there. They were all this way and that way. They werent wrapped in anything, and there were no coffins, he says. But there was no way there were 800 skeletons down that hole. Nothing like that number. I dont know where the papers got that. How many skeletons does he believe there were? About 20.
I see no answer to that question in your reply, Brian.