I am waiting for a proper exhumation of the site.
The story of a septic tank filled with corpses of babies is indeed horrific, but if you look through the sources, it is based on hearsay. A burial ground with numerous, unmarked internments is somewhat different - that is what is known as a “pauper’s grave”, and is found in every major city in European countries.
Until they can get a formal investigation, much of it is speculation, but is one historians’ 2 years of investigation that indicates what we have learned so far.
From the BBC: “The Irish government is considering an inquiry after the remains of nearly 800 children were discovered in an unmarked grave at a former home for unmarried mothers run by the Catholic Church.
The remains were interred in a concrete septic tank in the grounds of the home in Tuam, County Galway.
The children, aged between two days and nine years, died between 1925 and 1961.
The grave was found nearly 40 years ago, but the remains were initially believed to be from the 1850s famine.
However, local historian Catherine Corless found that the register of deaths and burials in the town did not match.
“I went to the births, deaths, marriages registration office in Galway and I asked them would they have records of the children who died at the home,” she told the BBC.
“When she came back to me, she said, ‘We have the records... but there’s quite a number.’”
“I was staggered and I was shocked because there’s a total number of 796 babies, children and toddlers buried in one mass grave there on that site.”
Funds are now being raised to erect a permanent memorial to the dead children.”