Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: RegulatorCountry
This entire story is an anti-Catholic smear campaign based on false assumptions and blatant distortions and lies. The bodies are far more likely to have been from the potato famine of the previous century, a famine reinforced and deepened by anti-Catholic England, whose effects are now being used by anti-Catholics to accuse the Church of evil. Typical that anti-Catholic bigots here would do likewise with it.

From the Wiki entry:

Burial ground[edit]

The common burial ground, described in many media reports as a "mass grave", was not marked or registered with the authorities, and no records were kept of burials there.[16] Local residents had been aware of its existence since 1975, when two boys smashed a concrete slab and discovered bones underneath.[6][17] Locals thought that the grave contained the remains of victims of the Great Famine or unbaptised babies.[9] It was resealed shortly afterwards, following prayers at the site by a priest. The number of bodies was then unknown, but was assumed to be small.[9][17] After this first discovery, a local couple looked after the burial site for 35 years.

On 7 June 2014, The Irish Times quoted Catherine Corless as saying that the story "has been widely misrepresented" in the the few days since it broke nationally and internationally. Corless was described as thinking that it seems impossible "that more than 200 bodies could have been put in a working sewage tank". The newspaper report echoed the RTÉ broadcast by casting serious doubt on whether the childrens' remains were actually interred within a septic tank, and also quoted a man who, as a boy, discovered skeletons there in 1975, who said that he saw only about 20 skeletons.[2] Another Irish Times report on the same day indicated that Garda Síochána sources had pointed out that details of the case, as earlier reported, such as that almost 800 children were buried at the site, and that they were in a septic tank, had not yet been "properly tested".[22]


119 posted on 06/07/2014 10:34:33 AM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM (Adding)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 116 | View Replies ]


To: Brian Kopp DPM
Your reading comprehension is lacking. There was a small plot in the back of the property where they were buried.

I'm still awaiting assistance from you with my poor reading comprehension. Where is this small plot on the back of the property where these children were buried? And, please decide, is it a septic tank, a "common crypt" or both?

120 posted on 06/07/2014 11:39:43 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 119 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson